WORKERS' AND SOLDIERS' PROCLAMATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1917, Page 5

WORKERS' AND SOLDIERS' PROCLAMATION.

& fraffiQflfJ APPEAL. miTOSs TSDATED JdEROUSSSLt. Received July M, U. 20 p.m. Patrograd, July 24, Wireless, j>er Admiralty Precs. The Workmen's and Soldiers' Council has iajwd a stirring proclamation, urging tire soldiers to stand flrta, adding that the time has come for action without hesitation. "We have acknowledged the Provisional Government, with whom lies the salvation of the revolution. We have acL'rrowled/fed its unlimited authority atid jitttver, olid those disobeying the Government's commands will Be regarded as tfaitors and treated mercilessly." The proclamation concludes that the threatened ruin of the revolution appeals for all to save the Fatherland.

CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT strong measures against ths EXTREMISTS URGED. Received July 24, 10.-to p.m. Petrogra4, July 24. i M, Kertasky (Premier) has received from eighteen provinces numerous addresses expressing confidence and favoring strong measures against the extremifeta. I.wiii has placed himself ■at the Government's disposftl in coß»a«tion with the Con)ffii»sjpn of Inquiry.

MINISTERIAL CHANCES. STRONG NATIONAL GOVERNMENT DEMANDED. HEROIC COSSACKS SUFFER. Reeeived Jul 24, 10.20 pjn. London, July 24. The Daily Chroni le's 'Petrograd correspondent atates that Eresskehenkon has beuii appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Tehernoff, Minister of Agriculture, and M. Skobelotf, Miniater of Labor. An effort to secure the balance of portfolios between the Socialists and non-Socialists failed, as all the latter refused to accept office. The Government is everywhere regarded as unsatisfactory, and a strong National Government is demanded. M. Nekrasoff has now refused office, feariu# M. Beretalli's agrarian programme of land nationalisation.

Sporadic firing continues, and the. population remains angry. A crowd caught iwo Leninites who were firing with a machine-gun from the house tops and tore them to pieces. The first machino oun regiment marched sullenly to the Palace Square to-day, gave up their arms, and asked for mercy. They will be disbanded. The Cossacks are the heroes of the day. frurihg the disturbances they were sent out without rifles and attacked the i ebel* with swords. Only twenty out of a hundred Cossacks returned.