RUSSIA'S CHRONIC UNREST.
LONDON, August 29. Mr Wilton, the war correspondent, cabling from Petrograd, says that if hope lingered in Russian breasts that the conference would accomplished a miracle of social healing, it was quenched to-day. The Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' delegates did rot heed the appeals to sink their differences and save the country. They cheered Kerensky, if only to display opposition to Korniloff,
At the Moscow Conference T^rolaff, representing the Engineers' Alliance' emphasised the - fact that the complete disorganisation, of transport might result in terrible consequences to the armies, which, might turn on Russia and commit excesses The disorganisation was largely due to the extreme demands of the transporters.
Representatives of Ukraine and West Russia declared that the people thereof were ready for any sacrifice A country representative (Zetts)' said that Courland would never belong to Germany.
A delegate of the General Mussulman Alliance declared that all the Mussulmans of Russia fully sunported the Government.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17075, 31 August 1917, Page 3
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