Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-30
ALL FRANKLY POINT
TO GREAT DANGERS

MOSCOW, August 29-Ds-k clouds
are lowering again over Russia. Every
speaker at the extraordinary confer
ence here points with uncompromis ing
frankness TO the dangers that threaten
from without and within. Remedies
galore are suggested. However, at tho
close OF the third sitting of the great
congress. there still seemed no other
way out of the t,ngle than the "Kor-
niloff way" that of ;he irol rod or
the Cossack rawhide TO whip the old
discipline back into the body and soul
of Il mob-likc army. But that way Il;
opposed with bitter stubbornness BY
the Workmens and Soldiers Delegates,
still numerically the most powerful
body in Russia. The masses continue
to pin their hopes upon Kerensky who,
though threatening blood and iron, Is
constitutionally incapable of actually
applying the instruments of the de-
funct Czarism.
chasm yawns between these two
sides. With every new meeting of the
conference it grows wider. Trouble
has sprung UP between Kerensky and
kornilof. The latter. hacked by the
constitutional Democrats. is determined
to go thi, lgh" with his program. He
reiterated this iron resolve to-day
Al the same time. there was flung
into the great assemblage a threat
which. if carried out. would bring on
disaster that would plunge Russia into
the abyss along the edge Of which the
country has been skidding for five
months. The great brotherhood of
rallwaymen. through it's head. NJ
Orekhof. issued an ultmatum that
tar LAT !
movement is not put down forthwith.
a countrywide strike will be declared.
They conjured up the vision Of Rus
sla's transportation system, already
hopelessly crippled. being paralyzed
completely. vision of the armies at
the front and the people in the cities
starving. not because there is no food,
but because there is no way to bring
1t to them.
COMPLETE BREAKDOWN
OF SYSTEM BY NOVEMBER
How menacing the disorganization
OF the transporta ton system already
Is was told to-day by VI. Froloff. one
or the leading railway representatives
railing prompt Improvement, he said.
November will see the complete break
down of the system. He pictured
the possibility of an infuriated starv-
ing army moving upon the cities
to butcher their starving civilian
brethren.
Shivers of awe went through the
huge assembly in the opera house
when former Commander in Chief
Alexief described the disinteEration
mat has already Gnawed its way
through the ranks OF Russia's fight
ing millions. Awe-stricken, the dele
gates heard the general describe how
1orty-eight officers and two soldiers
were the only ones out of regiment
20 obey the order to attack; how the
remainder. sullen and immovsbla
watched them dash into the volcano
or tho enemys fire which cut tho hand
iul OF attackers into fragments.
General Alexieff told how the IT,on-
ian army orders of the Socialist re.
Gime have undermined discipline and
divided the whole army into two
camps. officers and soldiers
The only heartcning factor at the
mira sitting of the conference was n
series OF loyalty pledges Representa-
yves OF Russia's Jews, Of the Ukrajn.
rams Let's and Mussulman all declared
soiemnly that for them there is but
one love- that of Russia; but ono aim
'hat or saving Russia's freedom.