AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT
M. KERENSKY'S APPEAL
RUSSIA ABLE TO EMERG E
TRIUMPHANTLY
(Reuters Telegram..)
(Received October 2*2, 12.40..p.pi.)
PETROGRAD, Outob.'i 21
Tlie Preliminary Parlianieiu lias, opened. It was attended by representatives of the Bourgeois, Democrats, members of the Government, and Allied and neutial diplomats.
, M.,Kerensky, in a speech, urged the Government and Parliament to grapple with the,difficult problem ol rt 1 storing the combativeuess of tho army, so as to enable it to repulse the. enemy, who were becoming more violent, and triumphant, not owing to theii own strength* .but to Russian impotence. Russia," if willing, could cmc-go iiotn the painful .situation much sooner than the enemy thought. M. Avkentieff, president of the PeaHants! Delegation, was elected president of tho gathering.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9125, 22 October 1917, Page 5
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