PARTY RIVALRIES AGAIN COMING INTO EVIDENCE.
REINFORCEMENT DRAFTS UNFITTED FOR THE FRONT. Times. XONDON, August 20.
Reviewing the Russian situation, Mr. Wilton says the sobering influences of the rebellion and of the military catastrophe have already been dissipated, and the political parties are shouting their rival programmes. Prospects of an agreement at the Moscow Conference are not bright.
General Korniloff, Commander-in-Chief, demands full military control of the railways. General Korniloffs confidential report states that he is able to rally the fleeing armies, by prompt and stern measures, but the drafts arriving from the rear to fill heavy losses through desertion are utterly unfitted for the fighting line owing to complete absence of discipline and training. The railway system is disorganised. These defeats are fraught with imminent peril in the face of great enemy forces.
A total of 150 Jews have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
Australian and N.Z. (Received 11 .m.) PETROGRAD. August 20. It is stated that an agreement has been reached to postpone the convocation of the Constituent Assembly till November 3 or November 10. The Government has decided to admit women to the Civil Service.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16624, 22 August 1917, Page 7
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190PARTY RIVALRIES AGAIN COMING INTO EVIDENCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16624, 22 August 1917, Page 7
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