THE GENERALS' RESIGNATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14408, 19 May 1917, Page 5

THE GENERALS' RESIGNATIONS.

NOT ACCEPTED.

PROPOSED COALITION GOVERN-

MENT.

AN AGREEMENT REACHED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Petrograd, May 17.'

The Government has not accepted the resignations of Generals Brusiloff and Gourko.

A conference of South Russian peasants demands the abolition of private ownership of land, and a share in Government land for soldiers and work.men. ■ -' ' '•■.'■:•' ; ■ ■>- . ■ ■'■■■■ -•

After all-day negotiations' an agreement was reached: Between the Soldiers' and Workmen' s~Tselegates and the Government under which three Democratic and three Nationalist Socialists will enter the Cabinet.

Generals Alexieff, Dragomskoff and Gourko are coming to Petrograd to confer on the military situation.

CABL*" NEWS.

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