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Show REVOLUTION ON THE DON REPORTED FROM PETROGRAD FETROG RAP, dan. Co. An official statement issued today by the Bolshevik Bolshe-vik government says that on Wednesday Wednes-day the congress of Cossacks from the front was inaugurated nt the military station of Kamensky and passed unaui mously a resolution declaring war on General Kalodiues and reJogatiug all authority to the congress. A military revolutionary committee, the statement adds, was formed and detachments de-tachments were sent to capture the towns of l.iklniia nnd Zverevo. Kight- ! eon superior officers wore arrested. t'ontiniiiiig, the statement says: "The Cossacks are fired with enthu- I siasm and are striving to end lx:Uo-tliitt's lx:Uo-tliitt's with their own hand "The regiment detailed to arrest the general statf was too late. At the staff headipinrteis a note written hv General Gen-eral Kalodiues was -found, declaring that the railways had been place. I under un-der special cont rul. The official statement, which was sent out bv wireless addressed "To AIT' and under the caption, "The devolution on the Don ' begins: "tin Wednesday at the military station sta-tion of Kamesky, a congress ot Cossacks Cos-sacks was inaugurated. Representatives Representa-tives xvero present from twenty-ono regiments, five batteries and two reserve re-serve regiments. There xvero present also at tho congress all of tho participants partici-pants in the conference of laboring Cos-sackdoin, Cos-sackdoin, which was instituted at Voronezh Voro-nezh on .laiiuary 10. "General Knledines gave orders for the dispersal of the congress and the arrest of the orcanir.ers. The congress unanimously passed a resolution declaring declar-ing war upon Knledines and reb-gatmg to itself all authority on the Pou. A military revolutionary lomniitteo was elected and detachments have been sent out. for the purpose of capturing the stations of l.iUiaia and Zverevo. Kightoen officers of superior rank have been arrc-ted. "During the operations for the capture cap-ture of the military station at Zverevo the divisional staff, headed by Colonel Mikhailolf, fled.'' Alter announcing the failure of the attempt to arrest the general staff and the finding at headquarters of the note iu which Ceneral Knledines declared the railways had been placed under special control, tho statement continues: "On the following d.iv a notable meeting took place at Kainesky. The Cossacks are fired with enthusiasm and are striving to end Knledines with their own hands. The army of the revolution, rev-olution, the armv of the workmen's and peasants and of the governments of the people 's commissaries is greeting awakening Cossackdoni and redoubling its energy with object of destroying bourgeois Kussia on the T'on, and in leading to victory tho great revolution." revolu-tion." The statement is signed by " Anlo-noff. Anlo-noff. people's commissary ' (assistant minister of war). |