GENERAL KORNILOFF.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1917, Page 3

GENERAL KORNILOFF.

A STIRRING ADDRESS

AWFUL CONDITION OF RUSSIA

[iuSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION]

(Received This Day at 12.25. p.m-) PETROGRAD, Aug. 28.

A‘‘feature of the conference at Moscow, was a remarkable speech by General Komiloff, emplwsising the disorganisation of the. Russian Army, outlining remedial measures. He declared the death penalty was only a small part df what was necessary. He mentioned . that in August some soldiers who tilled their officers ceased their oturages only when threatened with shooting,, also that a regiment of Siberian Rifles, which abandoned the Riga front, only returned to duty when its extermination was ordered. We are implicitly ' fighting anarchy in the army. 'The situation on the front .is so had that we have lost the whole of Qalicia, the whole .of Bukovina, and all the fruits of the recent victories. The enemy hoe crossed our frontier at several points and is threatening our fertile southern provinces, is endeavouring to destroy the Roumanian Army and is knocking at the gates of Riga. If the Army does not .help us to hold th© shores of the Gulf of Riga, the road to Petrograd will ho opened wido. He emphasised that the disorganisation of the Army was due to the acts of the people who wore completely ignorant of military affairs. He urged th'e immediate adoption of Remedial measures, including the strengthening of the authority of officers & non-coms, th© improving of officers pay, and forbidding regimental committees to participate in the decision of military operations, or the appointment of leaders: Similar measures must be applied to the rear. The condition of the railways was such that big numbers of the army do not receive any supplies. The south-west front is almost famished

Tho outpost of guns and shells has fallen by sixty per cent, and of aeroplanes eighty per cent, compared with the period of October 1916 to January 1917. He concluded that lie believed that the genius and ancient glory of the Army would bo restored. ANOTHER VIEW. Received this day at 2.36 p.m.,) PMTtOGRAD, Aug. 28.

At the Moscow. Conference, Tschiedgo, President of the All Rtissian Soldiers and Workers Council, followed General Korniloff. He chiefly demanded internal reforms. The reference to the Army reforms were vague. He merely asked that the powers of commanders and committees be limited, and they should lead to their own destiny, after agreement with the Constituent Assembly.' ,