THE PRELIMINARY PARLIAMENT

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14546, 26 October 1917, Page 5

THE PRELIMINARY PARLIAMENT

TROUBLES OF THE ARMY AND

NAVY.

(Reuters Telegrams.)

Petrograd, Oct. 24. In ;the discussions at the Preliminary Parliament, the Minister of "War declared that the provisioning of the army was severely hampered by the action of certain provinces which had plenty, of bread refusing to give it. i The Minister of Marine admitted that the relations of officers and bluejackets at Helsingfors were most strained, but the question of discipline had been settled on the basis of mutual confidence of the sailors and officers on the warships participating in the battles in the Gulf of Riga. General A'lexieff declared that the army must save itself, as it could not at present depend on the, rear.

CABLE NfiWS.

[Press Association.— Copyeight.]