KERENSKY'S SPEECH

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1917, Page 7

KERENSKY'S SPEECH

DISCUSSIONS IN MOSCOW

LAWLESS ELEMENT'S OPEN DEFIANCE

.VI PETEOGEAD, 27th August. ,"■ <\ Sunday's meetings at Moscow were devot*d to a discussion of M. Keren•'/jjeky's opening speech by separate conferences of the various parties. The dis- : "jcussions disclosed little sign of agreement among the parties. Two thousand ; ' ;|five hundred delegates will attend the full conference, which opens to-day. ,:; Life in Moscow is now normal, and the strike has ended. V.! (PUBLISHIiD IN THE TIMB8.) ; ,;;i' ' LONDON, 27th August. ,'\'\ Mr. Wilton, writing to The Times from Moscow, states that the decision i.\"-lof the Soldiers and Workmen's Council against any strike, demonstration, or "„•■- (interference with the conference proved insufficient to cope with the Bolche■^Jvikis, who engineered the strike in connection with the tramways, arsenals, '.*-,"] and factories, and even the waiters at hotels and restaurants, .a^jd hundreds ■,',lof members of the conference had to go without breakfast. ;;,') The Bolchevikis oppose the conference, and openly defy authority. Un*'"i fortunately, the Government has neither force nor authority to checkmate the movement, which, if successful in interrupting the conference, will seize the •'?< ■government into its own hands. '?■?■ STRIKES SETTLED BY PROMPT ACTION ,::: (reuteb's telegram. ) • *, PETEOGBAD, 27th August. _ Prompt action by the Government settled the Moscow strike. The mili- "•',.' tary were called out, and M. Kerensky telegraphed that he was resolved ':>'; that he,would instantly suppress any disorder.