New-York tribune., 1917-07-24
Allies Plans Upset
By Workers Delegates

There was a complete upset 70 the
plans Of the steering committee. The
Committee Of Workmen's and Soldiers
Delegates had not been consulted as to
what the revolution should do. and they
were not interested in post-dated rev.
elations. Instead Of working in har-
niony with the Duma or taking orders
from that body, they set themselves up
as a Committee Of Public Safety and
issued orders 10 the Duma. Their ideal
vss free Russia, and the affairs of the
Allies concerned them little.
One of their first proposals was to
execute the entire royal family. They
were thoroughgoing revolutionists, and
believed that as long as a member Of
the royal family remained alive there
was always a chance of the monarch
lists raising a revolt and reestablishing
the autocracy. Revolutionary soldiers
were sent 70 take possession of the
Gar, but he was protected by his
Guard Regiment, which remained loyal
tG his person and refused TO give him
up.
Meantime, the English government
was extremely anxious over the fate Of
the Gear. They felt directly respon-
slble for his safety and tried TO get
him consigned to England for his
prison. But the Committee Of Work
mems and Soldiers Delegates would
not consent 10 tie Cars leaving
Russia, and England. with much trepi-
Gation, had to agree.
The Duma was powerless, as the army
was with the Committee Of Workmen's
and Soldiers Delegates. Within two
weeks after the revolution 100000
soldiers had laid down their arms and
gone home. Those who remained were
for the most part fraternizing very
cordially with the Germans and Aus
trians. In many sectors of the front
the two armies lived in the same
trenches and ate the same food.
In other cases the soldiers. being
dissatisfied with their officers, simply
shot them. The army decided that IL
preferred to elect its officers rather
than have them appointed from above,
and many regiments proceeded TO the
elections. Things got TO such a pass
that general order was issued calling
the attention of the soldiers to the
feet that it was not right to shoot
their officers without trial, and re-
questing them TO defer the shootings
until higher body had had a chance
to pass on the cases.
Meanwhile, the Duma was seeking to
hold on to its vestiges of power and
reach a compromise with the Commit
tee of Workmen's and Soldiers Dele
gates. But all compromises ended in
the demands Of the committee being ac-
coded to. A committee of the Social
ist party in the French Chamber Of
Deputies was rushed TO Petrograd, and
Albert Thomas soon followed them.
When the French committee returned
to Paris its president made very de-
pressing report to a secret session OF
the Chamber on conditions in Russia
and the outlook there. A separate
peace was looked upon in Paris as
practically certain. A certain section
of the French Socialist party, Of which
Jean Longuet, grandson Of Karl
Marx, is a leader, was delighted. Lon
( guet and his followers are pacihsts of
the extreme type. They are peace-at-
any-price men, and they saw in the
Russian revolt the triumph of their
policy. It was they who wanted to 60
20 the StockholW conference, and were
able to force tA whole French Social