THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1917, Page 5

THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE.

STRONG SPEECH BY M. KERENSKY.

ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT TO BE PITILESSLY SUPPRESSED.

PETROGRAD, Aug. 27. Delegates of the principal bodies at the Moscow Conference r.eceived 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 , of all political and private organisa- T tionu. ] Delegates of the provincial town coun- 1 cils 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 ac a counter-revolution. . '. MOSCOW, Aug. 26. At the conference, M. Kerensky declared that an attempt to take advantage of the conference to ■ attack the Provisional Government would be pitilessly repressed. He warned those ,who thought the moment had arrived to overthrow the revoltuionary power with bayonets, that the boundless confidence of, the people and millions of soldiers supported the Government, which they believed in. The truth is that there are enemies within and without our waljg as well as friends. The State was passing through a period of mortal danger. Patriotism demanded concentration against the enemy, and the forgetting of domestic quarrels. The difficulties were accentuated by the saparat■ist morement among certain Russian nationalities, and the shameful, voluntary retreat of the troops. Those who had once trembled before autocrats now marched armed against the Government, but the Government woald make those exceeding its limit remember the time of Czarism. It would be implacable because it was convinced that gunrei** power could alone save the country. He earnestly appealed to the conferent to assist the consolidation of the conquests of the revolution. Reverting to the unfriendly attitude of certain Russian nationalities, M. Kerensky declared that democracy would giro what, wae promised, but where the limit of tolerance was passed the cry would be: "Hands off!"