KERAK

(32° 42’ N., 36° 23’ E.), town, Palestine; walled and fortified; taken by Salad in, 1188. Pop. c. 7,800. fortified town, Asiatic Turkey. Pop. c. 9,800. 35’ N., 44° 7’ E.), town, Asiatic Turkey; site of shrine of Hosain, visited annually by pilgrims. Pop. c. 65,000. 29’ E.), important fortre and seaport of 8. Ru ia, on Strait of Yenikale, between Azov and Black Sea; has interest paintings and other works of art have been found; old Byzantine church; exports cereals, iron. Greatly damaged during Crime an War. Pop. 54,000. DOROVICH (1881), Ru ian revolutionary leader; was b. in Tashkent, Ru ian Turkestan; received univ. education and took up practice of law, devoting himself especially to the cause of opre ed peasantry and working cla es. Ms 1913, elected to the Duma as Socialist Labor deputy for Saratov, and distinguished himself by attacks on the pro German element in the government and on corrupt high officials, One of the leaders in the resistance to the Tsar’s decree di olving the Duma, March 12, i917. After the Revolution (see Ru ia: istory) he was made minister of justice under Prince Livoff; one of his first acts was to release all political prisoners in Siberia. In May, 1917, when Ger. gold was seducing the soldiery and the extremists were stirring them up to lay ' down their arms, and fraternize with the enemy, he became minister of war, and strove manfully to stop the rot that was threatening the army with decay and the country with disaster. He appointed Bru ilov head of the army, and inspired the splendid offensive of July-Sept., 1917. Then came the reaction. There were di ensions in the ministry and a revolt in Petrograd; Kornilov’s soldiers mutinied and left their positions, and the whole front collapsed. Prince Lvoff resigned and Kerensky became premier, July 20, 1917. Soon after Kornilov started a revolutionary movement against the government, and civil war began. Kerensky placed himself temporarily at the head at the head of the army, with Alexeieff as chief of staff. Kornilov was placed in custody, and on Sept. 15, a republic was proclaimed, with a council of five headed by Kerensky. By this time, Kerensky’s fall was impending. Trotsky became president of the Petrograd Soviet, and with his confederate, Lenin, carried out a coup d’ eta it, Nov. 7. Deserted by his followers at Tsarskoe Selo, Nov. 14, after a feeble attempt to lead a military force against the Bolsheviks, Kerensky fled, a his career, for the time, was at an end. TION ISLAND (c. 50° S., 70’ E.), in Southern Ocean; named after discoverer, ous; highest peak, Mt. Ro , 6,140 ft. Produces vegetable called K. cabbage. Annexed by France in 1893. Area, c. 22’ E.), town, Turkey-in-Asia. Pop. 13,500. W.), islands, belonging to New Zealand, Pacific Ocean. ince, Persia; area, c, 59,500 sq. miles; surface generally mountainous, especially in §., with great expanses of desert in N. and N.E.; produces cotton, dates, wool. Pop. c. 600,000. Capital, Kerman, is fortified; manufactures carpets. Pop. c. 60,000. ERERMANSHAH, KERMANSprovince, Persia; carpets. Pop. 50,000. K, province has pop. c. 400,000.