RUSSIA.
RALLYING THE TROOPS.
RUSSIAN POPULATION HEARTENED.
REMARKABLE REVELATINS PROMISED. Received Aug. 9, 5.15 p.m. Petrograd, Aug. 8. The latest advices from the front have greatly heartened the population, confirming the satisfactory rallying of the troops in the various sectors. The Government has secured the archives of the secret police, and promised remarkable revelations.
AMATEUR GENERALS.
RESPONSIBLE FOR, DISASTERS.
EXTRAORDINARY STATE OP AFFAIRS.
Times Service. London, Aug. 8. Mr. Wilton cables extraordinary detail* of the committee ayetem, which was tJue mian cams of the disaster 4e the Russian armies. It wa.9 Oitajwibly devised for the maintenance of discipline, but these military duplicates of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Committees succeeded in destroying every vestige. They usurped tho functions of command, and non-combatants, especially Jews, clerks, and ambulance men comprised the majorities, and all were initiated into the inmost secrets of strategy. So long as speechifying was their main occupation they made a brave show, and a word from them to Petrograd led to the dismissal of commanders iwho were not attentive to them, however highly they were placed. They outrivalled headquarters, inspired the press, commandeered innumerable motors, and kept all the staffs busy attending to them. Despito General Korniloff's request they remain, issuing bulletins, claiming credit for everything favorable, aud enjoying handsome emoluments. A wirelesp Russian official message says: In the region of the confluence of the Zbrucz with the Dneiater we captured tho villages of Barycbkovey and [,Mygoda and tho heights westward. We repulsed attacks northward of the Sereth. The enemy occupied two heights westward of Dzeimkne and southward of Sotchi. We retired eastward on both sides of the Kimpolung road. The enemy, pressed us back northward of Bisigestchi.
RUSSIAN TOWNS ABANDONED BITTER FIGHTING ON EGSSOKOUMANIAN FRONT.
I Petrograii, Aug. 8. j The Novce Vremya states that tho Russians have evacuated the towns of Kamanets-Podol&ky and tProskuroff. London, Aug. 8. A German official report says: Tho Austro-Hungarians stormed and occupied several summits on the wooded Carpathians. "We extended our successes northward of Focaani. There is bitter fighting on the Russo-Roumanian front, but enemy counter-attacks have proved futile'.
BIG GERMAN FORCE.
ON HUSSIAN FRONT. Londori, Aug. 8. One hundred and thirty-seven AustroiGerman divisions, 24 brigades of infantry and the whole Austro-German cavalry are now fighting on the Rusao-Roumani-an front. Several divisions are en route from Franco, (There were said to be 143 German divisions on the Western front in April.) KERENSKY'S WAR CABINET.
Received Aug. 10, 12.55 a.m. Petrograd, Aug. 9.
M. Kerensky intends to form a War Cabinet, including M.M. Terestchenko (Minister of Finance), Nekrasoff (Minister of Railways), Avksenteff (Minister of the Interior), and Savinkoff, to meet daily, the Generalissimo to attend when available,
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