A HUGE GATHERING AT MOSCOW
TO REVIEW RUSSIA'S POSITION
LONDON, 24th August. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent states that an important series of conferences is to be held at Moscow. The most important will open on Saturday, representing members of the Duma, the Workers' and Soldiers' Council, the Peasants' Council, and all other representative organisations. The delegates will number, two thousand, and M. Kerensky will preside. Ministers wiD report on the military, financial, industrial, and agrarian situations. A preliminary conference, including M. Rodzianko, Generals Alexieff, Brusiloff, Yudenitch, and Kaledin, and representatives of various interests and classes, 16 now drawing up resolutions for submission to Saturday's Congress. It is hoped to find a policy acceptable to the Socialists and the middle classes. PURGING THE CAPITAL (bbuter's telegram.) PETROGRAD, 23rd August. The Government is taking rigorous- steps to purge Petrograd of undesirables. It is evacuating the charitable institutions and deporting old gendarmes, secret police, and other dangerous elements, and many who have been, wrongly exempted are being sent to the front. It is also strictly limiting the incoming population. ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS POSTPONED PETROGRAD, 23rd August. The elections for the Constituent Assembly have been postponed from. 30th September to 25th November. The Assembly will meet on 11th December.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 48, 25 August 1917, Page 7
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