KERENSKY OR KORNILOFF?

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3189, 13 September 1917, Page 5

KERENSKY OR KORNILOFF?

.". RUSSIAN CRISIS DEVELOPS ARRESTS AND COUNTER-ARRESTS AMERICAN STEAMERS FIGHT U-BOATS BATTLE OFF FREP COAST Tho Russian crisis is extremely grave, as may be judged by the depression on tho London Stock Exchange. The issue is narrowing itsolf to a choice of dictators—Kerensky or Korniloff—and tho shadow of civil •war lies athwart distracted Russia. Tho Provisional Cabinet has resigned in order to give M. Kerensky a freer hand in dealing dictatorially with the situation. A Directory of Affairs has been established, and General Alexieff has been ordered to take over the Command-in-Chief. One report states that ho has declined to act. There have been arrests and counter-arrests.- General Korniloff has arrested the Military Commander at Moscow and several otlior officials, while Kerensky has arrested a number of anti-Socialists. General Korniloff's advance on Petrograd is 6tated by M. Kerensky to have been checked. Tho latter states that ho hopes to avoid bloodshed and ino darker menace of civil war. Other sensational reports 6tato that Kerensky has been murdered. Tho Entente Powers have intimated to the Russian Provisional Government that tho Allied Powers ,will eontinuo to help Russia, but they expect that country to make a definite effort to rehabilitate herself as an offectivo Ally. No material developments are reported from tho other main battle-fronts. Tio Allies' advance in tho Balkans continues. A fleet of American merchantmen is reported to have engaged several German XT-boats in a pitched battlo off file I'rench coast, two of tho merchantmen having been sunk, while six U-boats are believed to have been sunk.