ROUMANIANS HOLD THEIR GROUND

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1917, Page 5

ROUMANIANS HOLD THEIR GROUND

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i nor authority fo checkmate, tlio m< ve- . men", .thich. it" siicces.-f;;| in interruptin:: the conference, will seize the Gov.-rn- - men* in its own hands. I Received Aug. '2'), 7 p.in. London, Aug. 25. Mr. Wilton further states that M. I Kcrcnaky shirked an ititer\ie\. with Gen- j era 1 Korniloti on Sunday. There is much talk about the conflict b*'r*ec.i General Korniloti" and M. Ker-tr-':.y over the departure of SavikolV. ■'■cneral KornilofT insists that •Savikoli' 1 • iii'<.-t remain in .barge of the War Oilier. lOn the other hand. If. Kcren-ky has adopted audi a tone towards Sawnko'.T | tjiat the Utter has been comgielled to rr-ipn. Thc s e disairocmwU; are rloselv rriiiiecieJ with the impending army ieI General Alexieif. a? --poke-man for the I Of!:'.•;>' League, announced that he was • determined to speak without fear regarding the army. i j INTERNAL REFORMS DEMANDED. j Pelrograd. An?. 28. j At the Mo=?ow Conference. T.-tchcidge, president (•;' all the Russian Soldiers' and Worker-'Councils followed General Kor--1 ;tilofi\ Ha chiefly demanded internal reforms With reference to army reforms lie ".va< vague, and merely asked that the powers of ihcX'ommandors and committee* he limited. He urged that all I nationalities in Rti.--:a should direct their I own de.-finy, after agreement with the Constituent Assembly. j AN IGNOMINIOUS RETREAT. London. Aug. 2S. A wireless K;i'=iau official :nesse..;c I states: The enemy bAgan an offensive j from Czernovitz agains* Novo Sclitza. Our itnamry near Boyek, not waiting for the attack, left their trenches and retired eastward. The reaci—es also scatter.'l, and the Austrians occupied the po.-itions. REBELLIOUS FINNS. HeKingfors, Aug. ?5. Th« Finns are in a state of great ex'- : tc!:ieni, the opening of the I Diet on Wednesday, despite its prohibi- | tiuii by the Petrngrad Oovemmcut. A I great number of Russian soldiers in Finland, including the Cossacks at Helsing- • fors str.d Socialists, arc preparing lor armed tesistanee. ENEMY ATTACKS FAIL. London, Aug. 2T. A wireless Russian official message says: Knemv attacks southward of Okua and north-east of Soveia failed. BURGLARS PILLAGE MUSEUM. Petrograd. Aug. 2t». Burglars pillaged the histoiie museum of (he ex-Grand i)nke .Michael Michalavitui and carried oil' >vorks of art valued at five million rottoles. FALSE RUMORS OF JAPANESE HELP. London, Aufrust 28. Groundless; report- have been circular, d in Paris that -Japanese troops will soon arrive on the Russian front. It is believed they are of enemy origin. It is dililcult to see the object, but apparency i; is hoped to eau-e disappoint i.ent when it is discovered that they ire un ; true, and pos.-ibly aron-e dissension among the Allie, regarding the part each is playing in the war.

DISORGANISATION OF ARMY. KORXILOFF SPEAKS PLAINLY. REMEDIAL JIEASURFI. Petrograd, August 2:1. h feature of the conference at Moseow watt a remarkable -peech by General KornilofT. emplituWrig the disorganisation of the Ruscian army and outlining remedial measures. He declar d that the- deal! penalty was only a small part of what was necessary, lie mentioned that in August some soldiers who had killed their officers ceased their outrages only when threatened with shootin?; also that a ngiment of Siberian Rifles, wk'ch abandoned the Riga front, only returned to duty when its extermination was ordered. General KornilofT went on:—'-We are implicitly fighting anarchy in the army. The situation at the front is so bad that we have lost the whole of Calicia, th«' whole of Bukovina, and all the fruu« of out recent victories. The enemy has crusted our frontier Et several points and is threatening our fertile .southern provinces." He is endeavouring to destroy the Roumanian armv and knocking at the gates of Riga. If the army do s not help us to hold the shore of tnc * Gulf of Riga the road to Petrograd will be opened wide." The general emphasised that the disorganisation of the army was due to the arts of people completely imc.ra.nt of military affairs and urged th" immediate adoption of remedial measure*. • including the strengthening rf the authority of officers and non-eojrra!sMon,'T officer*, the improving of offW-rs' pay. the forbidding regimental committees to participate in the decision of military operations or the appointment of fenders. Similar measures mtvt be applied in the rear. The condition of the railways was scch that by November the army would not receive any supplies on the south-west front: at present it Was almost famished. The output of > guns and shells hail fallen ISO per cent. •nd of aeroplanes 80 per cent compared With the period from October. TJIG— Januery 1017. General tlorniloff concluded that hj« believed the gtnius and reason of the Russians would cave the country, and that the ancient glory of the army would be restored. A GERMAN VERSION. fcERENSKY ErUPS.FI) m' KORXILOFP. Received Ang. I'.', 5.5 pm. Amsterdam. Am - . 2*. A Berlin telegram state* that M. Kerenskj' on Sunday telephoned to General KornilofT that the Oovernment did not desire him to address the conferer.er. but * that Korniloff felt bound to tell fit- ■ untry the tnitii about ihe army, -f.hich the Premier and his coHc-isues had not disclosed. A fwlinjr has ari en distinctly Unfavorable to If.' Kerensky. who lost hit >'. rm vhen he faib-d lo s-trak t):e H .vho!e truth. The nie-saj.; adr!> that Kornilolf reteived n yre.it cation in the street, whc'i: croud" -tioute.l: -i iiir hr.ne for the future lies witn Kornilctf and hifriend*." HEADERS AT VARIANCE. KERLNSKV AND KOKN-LOFF. AX.THORITY DEFIED. Time§ Service. London. Aur. 2S. (Mr. Wilton wires from Moscow that Ihe dcision of tl Soldiers and Workmen's Council aiainst any strike demonstration or interference with ihe conference proved insufficient to cope with Bokhcvek", who engineered n strike of the tramways, factories even toi waiters in the hotels and ivstaurants. Hu?:dre:ls of members of the conference had no brcakfi.st. Bolsheveks opposes the conference a;;! U openly defying auliioiity. rnfortunfttely the Government has neither tore*