EASTERN THEATRE

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17592, 24 September 1917, Page 5

EASTERN THEATRE

RUSSIAN COMMANDS. CHANGES PETROGRAD. September 21. General Verkhofslry announces re* placing the whole supreme command of tho army.

EMPLOYMENT OF REBEL OFFICERS.

PETROGRAD, September 21

General Alexiev considers it essen* tial to continue to employ many officers implicated in the Kornilov revolt.

GENERAL ALEXIEV RESIGNS. Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, September 21. General Alexiev bas resigned the post of Chief-or-Staff under Mi Kerensky.

COUNTER-REVOLUTION. # _____ PLOT AT TOBOLSK. (Received September 23. 5.5 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, September 22. A big counter-revolutionary niov®» ( ment bos been discovered at Tobolsk* where the Czar is interned. The officers of the whole Tobolsk garrison were in the' confidence" of the revolutionary leaders, who planned first to release the Czar. Already a hundred arrests have been made,* including officers of high rank. It is x alleged that Kornilov was co-operating with the plotters.

THE BATTLE FRONT.

A GERMAN SUCCESS.

RUSSIANS PRESSED BACK ON ; DVINA.

4. and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. (Received September 23, 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 22.

A wireless Russian official message says The enemy pierced our lines and captured parts of our positions southwest of Admine. in the region of Jacobstadt, and also positions two miles from the Dvina. We retired to the right bank of the Dvina. Enemy attacks in the region of Riga, north of Munchelr and north of Croseselle broke down.

LOSS OF JACOBSTADT REPORTED. (Received September 23, 11.10 p.m.l NEW YORK, September 22. It is reported, that the Germans hare captured Jacobstadt. A. and N.Z. Cable Association and Eenrjr. - (Received Sentember 23. 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 23. A wireless German official message says:—Our divisions broke through Russian positions north-west of Jacobstadt, and the enemy, forced back against the river, yielded the bridgehead, forty kilometres wide and ten kilometres “deep, on the western bans of the Dvina. He fled to the ceastern bank, and Jacobstadt is in our hands. We captured over fifty ghns.