RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1917, Page 3

RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

RUSSIAN CONFERENCE

COALITION v .. TV ANTED

Reuter’s Telegrams.

(Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.) PETROGRAI), October 3. After the Demoertaie conference had resolved in favour of a coalition Government', amendments were carried excluding the participation of the Bourgeois elements connected with the Kornibff movement, also the Cadets. The coalition resolutions were subsequently rescinded by 813 to ISO. CONFERENCE -RESULTS. T r AUSTRALIAN A N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION,] PERROGRAD, October 3. Tin; Democratic Conference by 766 votes against 6SB favoured a Coalition Government.

The Provisional Government has informed the Governor-General of Finland that it regards the meeting of members of the Diet as of an illegal character. Therefore, the Bills passed will bo inoperative.

RUSSIAN EXPLANATION

OF RECENT TROUBLES

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(Received This Dav at 10.15. a.m.) LONDON, October 4.

A Russian semi-official issued from the front by the Press Bureau at general headquarters, seeks to allay the uneasiness of the Allied press regaring Russia’s ability to fulfill her duty as- an ally.

ft says tbe deplorable episodes in the combative life on our front, as revealed in the free press, tended to obscure the enormous work whicli the army has accomplished for the common cause and is now unceasingly carrying out.

For 6] months after the beginning of tbe revolution we held on our front, enemy forces which, instead of diminishing have increased. Then the number in Galicia on first July was the same as twelfth March. About 28th. June, when the fighting in Galicia liad reached its culminating point 11 divisions of infantry had been added to the enemy’s Bukovina forces. The enemy’s forces on 25th. September were four divisions more than in March. There were fifteen German divisions On our front. 'Die enemy artillery has been reinforced by 640 guns. These figures do not. include the Caucasian front. The revolution was one of the most impressive things in the world, u e having simultaneously re-organied the arinv. bringing it- into better condition to surmount all obstacles, suppress disorder and the combative spirit of the men.

A manifesto from the northern front leads us to hopo for the possibility of a complete regeneration of the Army in tbe near future.

German attempts to take advantage of our temporary weakness and to deal a death blow to our moral forces during! the pe-iod of complete disorganisation will come to naught. Our armies are capable of continuing the struggle.