UNITED TO DEFEAT HUNS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 4

UNITED TO DEFEAT HUNS.

RUSSIANS SET TO WORK. . (By Dr. - Harold Williams.— Received by ,: Mail.) PETROGRAD, "I March 19. The new Government is now constituted and has ;set to wo"rk. There is a strbng feeling that Everything is tending toward < settlement. Norman Tile is being gradually, resumed in the capital. The new. 'Government is v the strongest' possible- under* -the- circumstance.s. It has a^tfremendotis task before it to fight the warto>a-finisli and to establish liberty. 1 Mv 'Kei-ensky, -who'-had the reputaI tion „oj being a n.^athter rlighWieaded, clever- > young' laywer Avith •a = taste - irresponsible d'eclamatiion, * during jthe , crisis showed marvellous strength of 1 character -and sterling devotion. Ke'rensky won a victory -in Thursday in a speeeh vthat will be historic. Appearing in< a- stormy ■assembly, mounting a table ; with, flashing eyes and passionate: utter-'aiwa.-ke announced that he had, accepted I the- .post of; Minister of. Justice. Tlic announcement turned' the tide, land amid cheering. h© continued j .■■■•.! > ■ ■ ' • ■"Comrades; in entering the provisional "Government I remain a, Republican. In my work. l must-lean for hejp on the will of; the-.ipeople. . >I. must 1 have in the people , my. powerful -support. 1 - May/' .1 trust, you as I u i, rust myself?' f {Tremendous cheers and cries of 'We- believe you, comrade'.) \ I can not live- without the peopJia.Aiidi if leveuryou-begrn to doubt me,i kill me,. . ■ •■- --;■"£.declare to the Provisional Government that I am a representative of democracy, and that the . Government must especially, take into account the Views I shall uphold as a representative ofxi the people by whose . efforts . the old Government was overthrowfn.. Comrades, timfc does not wait. I call you to organisation and. discipline. I ask - you j,to support us, your representatives, who ai'e •'prepared • fco die for the people and have 'given the people their whole, life.'? ■■■ The Government's, first act this moi'uingiwas the declaration '. of amnesty for political offenders, including terrorists; • ■ . SHARED BY ARMY, i The composition o£ the xiew Russian Government is "extraordinarily . moderate in the circumstances. . .If the Emperor had 1 ! i heeded repeated warnings and abandoned his .suicidal policy a much more , moderate Cabinet would Tiave been formed a week aga,,andthi.A week's- pi'onunciameuto would have,. been avoided.. >. It must , also '.be. emphasised, that r the movement i.was-th© result, not of organisation, but of accumulated indignatiou, which, was shared., by the army, and was inflamed 1 toy- the insane order, to. shoot at the people on . Sunday a week. ago ; ■ The defection of two-regiments Mas' ther.signal for the rest and the old regime found a gulf yawning .under- its feet.* What followed 1 has been a struggle to- evolve order out of chaos. - . • ■•■ . '-■There has been and stilt is danger from the extremists, . who want at once to turn Russia, into a .Socialist republic, andi have- been, agitating, among the soldiers, but reason has been reinforced by the sens© of danger from the Germans iirid of , the lingering forces of reaction gaining the upper hand, and it is noteworthy that the soldier delegates from the insurgent, regiments have preferred a more moderate view. In numberless talks with soldiers, , correspondents have beeii struck by. their fundamental reasonableness, their sense, of order and discipline. '.They wish to be free men, but very strongly realise them duty . as soldiers. ( - l - The, more moderate Socialists, the socalled Plekhaioff party, who stand for war, 1 are very useful as mediatorsj- and as soon, as V the new Government secures itself it will be i found. that the influence of the extremists will, be diminished. , -Admiral Depnin, ; commander of . the Baltic fleet, has already given .his adhesion to the new, Government. Full rights of citizenship to Jews and abolition* of the pale ■ was < the further progressive step which democratic Russia tooki to-day. Jews throughout Russia hailed the n«w order with great rejoicingi. ■■• , • *•■ ■■ .'. '■-.'» •' . . ■' ""'" P.etrogradi, is astir with enthusiasm; its streets are packed with orderly cro\vds. r .Public utilities are now i-Un-nuig as of old To-day all newspapers were. : re-publishing-r-and with entire-freedbm-of editorial irower. Many of tlie. newspapers which resumed .yesterday commemorated! the event by special editions full of eulogies of the nevv "Free Russia" — including poems .and long analytical • articles, r r v -if Yousuppff and. the Grand Duke Dmitri . Pavoluyitch. who were banished by the. oldl- imperial Government ber eattse of .suspicion '.. that they wese connected witK the removal of tlie monk, Resputin, were; permitted 'to return^ to Petrograd to-day by special lorder of tlie Minister of Justice.' ; -''< - ■ v . ! Dispatches fi'om* Moscow to-day.' said all workmen' had resumed their occupations. /The deposed' '<>.ar Nicholas -was en route to one of his Imperial palaces in Crimea to-day. Meanwhile his children were all ill, except the Grand Duchess • Marie.