MORE MARTIAL NOTE FROM RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3084, 15 May 1917, Page 5

MORE MARTIAL NOTE FROM RUSSIA

SUCCESSFUL REJECTION OF SEPARATE PEACE IDEA i_ ARMY MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE OFFENSIVE

Petrograd, Mav 13. M. Skobeleff, a leading member of the Executive Committee of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, roundlv declared at a. sitting of Iho council that every Russian proletarian scornfully repudiated a separate peaoe; every soldier who consorted as such with Germans injured the general cause of the Russian democracy.. The army must bo a powerful organisation readv to fight not merely in the trenches but to take the offensive. The Executive resolved, bv 23 to 22, not to participate in the proposed Coalition Ministry. Eight members declined to vote, including the most influontal members of tho committee, for personal reasons. The question may he referred to n. committee of ihe whole, when it is anticipated that the vote will be reversed. , General Korniloff has resigned command of tho troops in Potiograd. apparently owing to friction with the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates. The Minister for War declares that, if a definite agreement is reached with America, the problem of reorcanisinc tho transport system and the supply of munitions will be satisfactorily solved in a few weeks. The levictuallins of tho army at present is most unsatisfactory, but will shortly be improved. Tho.army hns been reorganised, and the utilisation of met of talent "has been made poesihle.—Renter.