Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — GEN. KORNILOFF WILL SURRENDER [ARTICLE]

GEN. KORNILOFF WILL SURRENDER

Head of Rebels Negotiating With Russ Leaders for His Life. CjHIEF DESERTED ,BY HIS ARMY ' i .. Desertion by* the Sikaya Division, When It Reached Within 15 Miles of Petrograd, Was Cause of General’s Downfall. London, Sept. 14. —General Korniloff and General Lukomsky have intimated that they are ready to appear before the revolutionary tribunal, says Reuter’s Petrograd correspondent. Generals Ruzsky and Dragomiroff have been appointed, respectively, com- ' madder in chief on the northern and , southwestern fronts. Petrograd. Sept. 14,—Korniloff is. negotlating for his life. With the enp- ; ture of Pskoff, 162 miles southwest of • the Russian capital, his base, his rebei,lion has gone to pieces. | Desertion by the Sikakva (savage) division, when it reached within fif- ' teen miles of Petrograd, was the cause ;of his downfall. These troops were ■ mostly Moslems,, coming from the t rans-Ca ocasian tribes. They stood by Korniloff, one time commander in chief of the Russian ’ armies, because of his interest in Asiatic affairs and also /because of ids , obvious Tartar blood. j_ When they reached the vicinity of Tsarskoe Selo they were met by fellow Moslems whom Premier Kerensky had sent from Petrograd. Troops Desert Korniloff. Loyal to the revolution which changed Russia from an imperial autocracy to a democratic republic, they were soon convinced by the provisional 1 government’s delegation that the best . interests of the state would be served ! by their adherence to tlie Kerensky cab* net. | Accordingly they shifted, and the ! Korniloff forces, of which they constituted the advance guard and which were planning to invest Petrograd from Gatchina and Tosna, 30 miles ! southwest and southeast respectively, i found themselves with a serious gap in : their ranks. j Moreover, their retreat had been cut 'off by the seizure of Pskoff from the south, and their 50-mile victory from Luga to Gatchina did them no good. Retreat Cut Off. I Blocked on his way to Petrograd and j forbidden to fall hack on pain of de- ; feat, Korniloff, once commander in j chief of the Russian armies, who hoped | to be i’homme a clieval (tlie man on I horseback), had no choice but to begin parleys to save himself and his following from-annihilation. ! General Korniloff has, it is reported, expressed his willingness to surrender on certain terms, these, it is understood. being that there should be no executions.

The provisional government, however, demands unconditional surrender. According to report, it is not the intention of the Kerensky cabinet to send the revolutionaries before a firing squad, but to make an example of them in such a way that it will be no more troubled by internal dissensions in the war against Germany. Korniloff Loyal to Russia. It is recognized that Korniloff, in his demand that he be made dictator, was not acting in arrangement with a German plot. H was. it is held, seeking merely supreme control of the army, wanting to apply such disciplinary measures as would insure the implicit obedience that military rule, if It be efficient, necessitates. It is. however, worthy of note to recall that he left sufficient force to bar the road to the Russian capital to the Germans advancing from captured Riga. It appears to be undoubted that the “savages.” though devoted to Korniloff. had no idea of their destination of his aim. The division consists of eight regiments of fierce Caucasus cavalry, recruiter! almost exclusively from the tribes Ingushes, Kabardintsi and Ossetinians, and .contains a few Tartars. Almost all are Mohammedans, and among them are many princes.