RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MOSCOW CONFERENCE.. DEVOID OF IMPORT. | 1 DISCORDANT FACTIONS.. ! Petrograd, Aug. 2«, The Piw isional Government has de-' cMcd that the Moscow Conference cannot have a decisive import as its object | is merely;to acquaint the people's re- j presentarives witli the Government's i views on the political situation. Received Aug.' 27, 10.10 p.m. Petrograd, Aug. 27. ' Delegates of the principal bodies at this Moscow Conference received special instructions ensuring common action. All Cossacks instructed their delegates to demand that the Government create a temporary committee of the Duma at Moscow, with full power, independent o! all political and private organisations. Delegates of the provincial town councils and other public organisations were instructed to demand the speedy conclusion of peace and the convocation of the constitutional assembly on the original date. The Maximalist Central Committee denounces the conference as a counter-revolution. ROUSING SPEECH BY KERENSKY., A WARNING TO MALCONTENTS. noyFT>v\rraT ADOPTS FIRM ATTITUDE. A LIMIT TO TOLERANCE. F.O( -ived Aug. 27, 8.10 p.m. . Moscow, Au«. 2G. At the conference. M. Kerenskv declared that an attempt to take advantage of the conference to attack the Provi- t sional Government would be pitilessly I repressed. He warned those who thought , I the moment had arrived to overthrow the revolutionary power with bayonets, i that the boundless confidence of the people and millions of soldiers supported f f Government, ivliich they believed in. The truth is that there are enein.d . within and without »ur walls a= veil :c friends. The State ,\as passing thrmigi. a period of mortal danger. Patriotism dei, inded concentration against the enemy, and the forgetting of domestic quarrels. The difficulties were accentuated bv thf K.:;aratist mo\ement among certain Russian nationalities, and the i shameful, voluntary retreat of the 1 troops. Those who h.;d once trembled j i>eforjj autocrats now, marched armed against the Government, but the Government would mnke those exceeding itlimit remember the time of Czarism. It would be implacable, because it was eon- j vinced that supreme power could alone ; save the country. He earnestly appalled to the conference to assist the consolidation of the conquests of the revolution.. Reverting to the, unfriendly attitude of certain Russian nationalities, M. Ker- ; ensky declared that democracy would ' fiveVhat was promised but where the limit of tolerance was passed the cry would be: "Hands off!" The Governmi.it would make those exceeding its opening of the dissolved Finnish Diet. EX-WAR MINISTER'S TRIAL , TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF THE ARMY. Reuter Service. Received Aug. 27, 0.15 p.m. Petrograd, Aug. 27. The trial of General Sukhomliuoff, on various charges, including grogs neglect of duties while acting as War Minister, is proceeding before the first jury emMairei'.'d in ussia. General Yanouschkevitch, ex-Chief of the General Staff, In his evidence described the terrible plight of the army owing to the almost complete lack of projectiles and rifles on the outbreak of the war. Accused disregarded hundreds of army requests for ammunition. The Germans, advancing with the knowledge of this state of af* fairs, brought their artillery close to the Russian positions and created fearful havoc in the ranks, ENEMY ATTACKS FAIL. PROGRESS ON CAUCASIAN FRONT. \ Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m. London, Aug. 28. A wireless Russian official report states: Enemy offensives in the direction of Vladimir and Volhynsky, also south-west of the town of Soreth. failed. We repulsed attacks in the direction of Kczdivasarhely, north-east of Sovoia, and further progressed on tho Caucasian front. %