KORNILOFF ARRESTED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3192, 17 September 1917, Page 5

KORNILOFF ARRESTED

WITH CHIEF LIEUTENANTS SEVEN HIGH OFFICERS LYNCHED fall of. Monte san 'gabrielle VIVID STORY OF TERRIBLE BATTLE MORE PEACE RUMOURS TEo Russian situation, according to the dispatches to-day, has not materially changed. General Korniloff and his ctiicf lieutenants are reported to have been arrested, hut there is no official statement to that effect. Two generals and five other high officers who were arrested at Yiborg on a charge of assisting in the jforniloff movement were lynched by a mob of soldiers—the most sinister event of the- Revolution, almost. General Kaledin, a supporter of General Korniloff, is stated to hare reached the Bon district at the'head'of three cavalry divisions and one infantry division. . Generals, and Ministers aro rising and falling in station with bcwOdering and kaleidoscopic frequency. Seven Ministers havo resigned, a' development wiiich, it is stated, will be productive of good, and facilitate . a coalition. The situation on tho battle-front shows that the Riga collapse has ended. Tho Russians are attacking, and, in .places, advancing, taking prisoners. On the Western front the British have advanced their • line north-east of St. Julien, while the French, heavily attacked on the ' Mouse,- have recovered mo3t of the ground gained in the first rush of tho Germans. The enemy attempt to effect a coup on tho Aisno, was a. , costly failure. The Italians are unofficially reported to havo captured Monte San Gabrielle. 'Correspondents' dispatches from this sanguinary field of the war give a vivid picture of the deadly strife which has been raging for the possession of the mountain summit. -There is a recru- ■ descence of German-inspired peace rumours, tho latest, denied on official . authority, being a circumstantial catalogue of terms which Britain is prepared to discuss with Germany.