IN RUSSIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12066, 23 July 1917, Page 1

IN RUSSIA.

KENENSKY'S APPEAL..,^.^^ _ ... hTO END CONFUSION- AND ' UNITE AGAINST FOE. •.. • (Received July 23, 3.45 p.m.) f i PETROGRAD, July 22. I M. Kerenshy has made a stdiv j ring appeal to tho country and the soldiers and sailors to end' th«.' prevaling confusion. f"' Ho points out thaib tho enemy offensive begun in May will result in defeat, of tho revolution, and. summons all classes to they support • t.i the Government against ostomai and internal enemies. /' 11. Korensky particularly urges the ct-ssniion of tho chaotic state, of the, T-alrir Fleet, which may end disastrously if tho enemy fleet should attack. He declares thatfi tho recent disturbances were the. outcome of a German plot. f. KORNTLOFF GENERAL j -, PETROGRAD, July 22. I % General Korniloff has boon aj* - pointed commander-in-chief on the south-western front, in succession to General Govtoi. THE COLLAPSE OF MORAL. LONDON, July 22. : The Petrograd correspondent of, tho "The Times" states that th-?'" , rk-legates of tho Preohrajcnsky R<o-, , pi men t and others fro mtho fronst pawed a. resolution favouring M,' Kereiukv being appointed dictator^ It is impossible to forecast wlia4 r.iil happen at the frout. It is significant that RuesiaK :ommuniqucs admit tho/ collapse of moral, hut. the mor.t important faci is that von Hindenburg, after i prolonged policy of inactivity, ha-i launched an offensive, tho effects of (vhioh upon tlic moral •will bo incalculable.