RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 24 September 1917, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

ALEXIEFF RESIGNS. DISAGREES WITH KERENSKY. PETROGRAD, September 21. General Alexieff has resigned command of the army owing to a dispute with M. Kerensky. Alexieff* considers it essential to continue to employ "many officers who w ere implicated in the Korniloff revolt. APPEAL TO THE ARMY. Received 9.15 PETROGRAD, September 23 General Doukonthine succeeds General Alexieff. The Government appeals to the army k to refrain from incivility to the officers, the majority of whom are faithful to the republic. GERMANSf SMASHING RUSSIANS REPORTED CAPTURE OF JACOBSTADT. \ ' NEW YORK, Sept 22. It is reported that the Germans have i captured Jacobstadt. LONDON, Sept 22. A wireless Russian official message states: The enemy pierced our lines and captured parts of our positions south-west of Admini, in the region of Jacobstadt also positions two miles from the Dvina. We retired to the right bank of the Dvina. Enemy attacks in the region of Riga, northward of Muncbelu and northward of Groseselle, broke down. GERMANS CAPTURE 50 GUNS AT JACOBSTADT. LONDON, Sept 22. A wireless German official message states: — Our divisions broke through the Russian position north-westward of Jacobstadt. The "enemy were forced back against the river. T-hey yielded the bridgehead, forty kilometres wide and ten kilometres deep, on the western bank of the Dvina, and fled to the eastern bank. Jacobstadt is in our hands and we captured over 50 guns. PLOT AT TOBOLSK. STOCKHOLM, Sept 22. A big counter-revolutionary movement has been discovered in Tobolsk, where the Czar is interned. The officers of the whole Tobolsk garrison were in the confidence of the revolutionary leaders, who had planned first to release the Czar. Already 100 arrests have been made, including officers of high rank. It is alleged that Korniloff was co-operating with the plotters.