CONTRADICTORY MANIFESTOS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3190, 14 September 1917, Page 5

CONTRADICTORY MANIFESTOS

RUMOURED CLASH NEAR THE • \ CAPITAL'; , ' ' \ v MUTINY HAS FAILED, SAYS KERENSKY , RIVAL SEEKS REGAL POWER « ' From the mass of conflicting roports and manifest guesswork emerges the clear fact that the Bussian crisis is now very gTave indeed. It is stated that most, or nearly all, cf tho news from Kussia just now email-' ates from the Eerenaky side. According to M. Kerensky's declarations, the Korniloff conspiracy has (ailed, and tho internal situation is favourable. Kerensky as Prime Minister lg now also Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, and' in- this latter capacity has warned the troops that . the slightest act of disobeilionco, from generals downward, will meot with severe punishment. Kornilolf Is approaching Petrograd, and already . rumour is busy with stories of tho clash of civil strife. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent says that tho Provisional Government Party is . clearly more apprehensive about the situation than it will acknowledge. . Korniloff himself is said to aspire to regal power, by virtue of- his family descent. Ho is stated to belong -to a line moro ancient than tho Bom an- •• offs:;' On the other hand Korniloff himself is reported to have declared , that . his one aim isito rescue his country from the present impasse; - "thttisdone, he will grant a Constituent Assembly. Local actions are tho ' main features of the news from tho war theatres. The Turks report activity along the whole of the Caucasus front. A German newspaper publishes what it states to be the "basic peace conditions on which Germany insists before she will express her preparedness to discuss tho fate nf Belgium.". ' .