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Show SEIZES SUPREME ! RULEjnUSSIA GENERAL KORNILOFF DEFIES KERNESKY. REVOLT BACKED BY COSSACKS. Gen. Klembovsky Is Appointed to Command Com-mand of the Armies; Officials of the Embassy at Washington Regard the Situation as Full of Peril. Petrograd. New chaos engulfs Russia Rus-sia ; on Its crest rides civil war. General Korniloff, caught in a plot to overthrow Kerensky and appoint himself military dictator, has been ousted as commander-in-chief. Intrenched In-trenched ht army headquarters, surrounded sur-rounded by loyal lieutenants backed by his dreaded Cossacks at the front and the powerful Prince Lvoff-JIilliukoff party at home, he refuses to resign and defies Kerensky to force him out. ' General Lokomsky, one of Korni- ' loff s right-hand men, has turned down Kerensky's offer to succeed Korniloff. So he, too", stigmatized as a traitor, is ordered to resign. He, too, is defiant. Thereupon, Kernsky's choice for a ..generalissimo fell upon Klembovsky, commander of the beaten Twelfth .army north of Riga. Petrograd, in the grip of famine and ' panic, has been declared by Kerensky j to be in a state of war. This includes the whole district of the capital. Facing open rebellion, this time by part of the army, KeTensky, with the consent of the provisional government, . has assumed the absolute powers of a i czar. He announces he will not yield j to the counter-revolutionists, but cut ot the roots of the Korniloff movement. move-ment. M. Lovoff, member of the duma (not to be confused with the priuce of the eame name), is under arrest as the go-between go-between who brought Kerensky Kor-niloff's Kor-niloff's ultimatum. j Quick to exploit the new storm that sweeps Russia, trying to help it mature ma-ture into the. long looked-for typhoon of civil war, the Germans are turning the crank of their war machine in the east to the tune of drumfire at Dvinsk and in Rumania. A giant pincher drive, designed to crack a 700-mile front open, threatens to begin at any moment. i |