RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

KERENSKY'S APPEAL FOR ORDER. CRISIS nearly over. SOCIALIST MINISTERS' DEMANDS. Received July 23, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, July 22. M. lterensky (Premier) has issued a stirring appeal to the country and the soldiers and sailors to end the prevailing confusion. He points out that the enemy's offensive has begun, and may result in the defeat of the revolution. He summons all classes to support the Government against its external and internal enemies, and particularly urges the cessation of the chaotic state of the Baltic fleet, which may end disastrously If the enemy fleet should attack. He declares that the recent disturbances were the outcome of a German plot. Renter Service. Received July 23, 5.1-5 p.m. Petrograd, July 22. Ministers discussed the immediate proclaiming of Russia as a democratic republic, but the final decision was postponed until the Executive of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Council has prohounced its opinion. The crisis is nearly over. The Socialist Ministers have delivered an ultimatum demanding the immediate proclamation of the republic by a resolution on the .part of all classes, divisions, and ranks, and on badges and medals; also, the reform of the land, financial, and economic systems, ffnm measures against tihe counter-revolution, and the dismissal of all unfaithful generals. The resignation of M. Zuaff was due to a disagreement with the Socialists on the question of land reform. Dispatches from Galicia state tiia.t the breach in the Russian front is tiwelv* versts broad by ten deep.

A KERENSKY DICTATORSHIP FAVORED. Received July 23, 6.6 p.m. iPetrograd, July 23. General Komiloff has been appointed Comnrauder-in-Chief of the southwestern front, in succession to General Govtor.

The Times' Petrograd correspondent a twees that delegates from the iPreobrajinsky Regiment and from the front passed a resolution favoring M. Kerensky's dictatorship. It is impossible to forecast what will happen at the front. It is significant that Russian communiques admit a colla/pse of morale, but the most important faet is that Marshal von Hindenburg, after a prolonged policy of inactivity, has launched an offensive, the effects whereof upon morale are incalculable.

"SOLDIERS. CO FORWARD." QOVERNMEXT MAJTCIPESTO TO THE ARMY. Received July 23, 8.50 p.m. London, July 22. A wireless Russian report states: 'Hie Provisional Government ha« issued a manifesto to the army, saying that three weeks ago, in accordance with the War Minister's order, the armies on the eoutih-western front made an offensive with mighty revolutionary impulse, taking 3G,000 prisoners. These heroic lighters, although threatened in front by German .bayonets, and nearby with treacherous mutiny, held-their honor, the Fatherland's existence, and the success of the revolution more precious than their lives, The nation's forces suppressed the mutiny in the interior, tout the revolution was still in great danger. The external enemy, having gathered strength, had assumed the offensive, cunningly coupled with a traitorous Wow in the reax. The manifesto concludes: "Soldiers, go forward, heedless of cowards, and save the freedom of your Fatherland 1"