Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-07-24
TO HALT GERMANS
AIM OF KERENSKY
VALIANT PREMIER WILL AGAIN
LEAD RUSSIAN TROOPS IN
ATTACKING FOE.
SERIOUS CRISIS HAS AROSE
Provisional Government VIII Firmly
Subdue Counter Revolutions-A
Proclamation Declares Inten-
ton to Carry Out Reforms.

London.-Premier Kerensky again
has started for the front at the In
stance of the central committee OF
soldiers and workmens delegates, &C
cording to a Reuter- dispatch from
Petrograd.
Monday dispatches from Galicia say
that the breach in the Dusslan Inc
is eight miles wide and ten mics
deep. The Bourse Gazette says that
at a meeting of delegates from regi-
ments at the front it was resoiVeo
that it had become imperative to turn
over all authority to M. Kerensky.
Premier Kerensky, as minister OF
war. personally led the Russian OF
fensive which began July l, and swept
everything before it until some OF the
regiments became mutlnous ana re-
fused to obey orders.
The first machine gun regiment
surrendered it's guns and rifles TINS
afternoon in the winter palace square
Must RepeI Foreign Foe.
Petrograd.-The provisional govern
ment has issued this proclamation TO
the nation
"Citizens, The fateful hour has
struck. The German emperor's armies
have broken the front of the national
revolutionary army. This terrible op
Grafton has been facilitated by the
criminal levity and blind fanaticlsn
of some and the treachery of others
At this fateful moment when, taxing
advantage of the general CONFUSION
the hidden forces of counter-revoiu
ton can raise their heads, the remod
eled provisional government cleari!
realizes it's heavy responsibilities.
Government Is Courageous.
"The government firmly believe
that the crisis will lead to recovery
not DEATH Strong in the behet TN
government is ready to act with TN
energy and resolution the exceptlona
conditions demand The government
regards as it's first capital task tn
anplication of it's whole strength t
the struggle against the foreign 10
and the defense of the new govern
mental regime against every anarchia
and counter-revolutionary attemI
without hesitating to take the mos
rigorous measures in its power. A
the same time the government relte
ates that not a drop of blood OF
Russian soldier shall be shed for an
foreign end, as already proclaimed I
the whole world
The proclamation proceeds to stat
that by the declaration of May ]
the government intends to summo
the entente allies to conference
August to decide upon a general OF
entation of the allies policy and
coordinate their actions with regal
to the application of the principle
proclaimed by the Russian revol
tion. At this conference Russia wi
he represented in addition to dipl
mats. by representatives of the Ru
sian democracy.
French in Great Battle.
The French and Russian fronts co
tinue the scenes of the greatest mi
tary activity.
In France between scissors al
Rheims the French have again giv'
an exhibition of their tenacious alb
ity at defense like that which he
the Germans back from Verdun.
In the east the Russian line
Galicia apparently is crumbling
reason of the disaffection of some
the troops and the vicious assault
the Germans and Austro-Hungaria
are throwing against it.
Notwithstanding the heavy loss
the Germans had thus far sustain
in their attacks along the Chemin
Danes in France, they again Sund
made fruitless efforts to defeat &c
eral Petain's forces.