Evening star., 1917-11-04

ment, but SO far have not succeeded, as
attested in the remarks Of Gems. Brus-
slo and Russby before politiss
clared that the Russian army was in
chaos. that the soldiers disobeyed the
officers and that the antipathy between
| ing and would do 80 as long as SOL
| dier committees were permitted to
hold the power they apparently con-
| tinue to exert.
| Taken as a while. the situation Is dis
couraging to the allies. Not much may
be expected of
! Interior Chaoa Russian armies
i Strikes the Army. ter montbs
though il Russia remains in the war, as
| kerensky says she will, Germany un-
questionably will be forced to keep tens
| Of thousands of her troops in this arena,
preventing their use in other important
| sections.
The Russian army situation is aggra-
| waited by virtue Of the Decentralization.
| which continues on the railroads. in
war industrial plants and in the mines
| which have been furnishing the armies
| with necessary tools of battle.
The railroad situation is particularly
bad, and If it be true that the service
! Is not one-fourth as good as it was last
/
The government is endeavoring to ad-
| just labor troubles and reorganise
those industries which are absolutely
essential to successful military en-
munIcations and transportation facili-
ties remain chaotic this condition will
| lead to increased economic suffering
during the winter months. which. in
turn. will bring further dissatisfaction
among the workers behind the lines and
| end In grave develOnmenta
| Unquestionably the Russian situation
| will be considered at the entente con-
ference in Paris and the allies will bend
every effort to render the assistance
necessary in lifting Russia upon her
feet.
Anarchy and chaos continue in the
provinces, despite the firm measures
which Premier Kerensky has inaugu-
| breaks The Maximalists and Boil
sheviki elements in Petrograd an
nounced a counter revolution for No
vember ., but this was postponed. the
their effort to unhorse the present gov
| ernment.
AS was to be expected. the council
Of soldiers and workmen's delegates
it's delegate to the Paris conference
| The council now is revising the de-
nands NJ. Skobelef will present there.
| Foreign Minister Terestchenko has ap-
pealed against the Injection of political
questions into the Paris deliberations
He has stated specifically in answer to
! the Bolsheviki's pro-German request
for an immediate peace that Russia
will continue In the struggle to the
| last and. furthermore. the allies are
standing by Russia and will continue
| to do so.
| Possibly the most encouragi ging bit of
news that has emanated from Petro-
| grad in the past few months is that
! W Rn19havtk{ al
| ments are being badly defeated in the
municipal elections which are being
held throughout the nation. Generally
| speaking less than Z per cent Of the
| didates. while the conservative and So
| cialist tickets are leading by wide
| margins
The Bolsheviki may nnd that these
very elections will seal their doom. 1t
| would appear on the face of the things
| that Premier Kersnsky and those ele-
ments fighting evil preachments and
seditionist doctrines have not sown
| their seed on unfertile soil and that the
people-though they may be thorough
| ly disheartened and discouraged be-
cause of the trend of events-realize
| that IL the Russian revolution Is to be
ent government are better suited to
this end than are those of the rad
| icals.
|
The kaiser undoubtedly has played
what he considers a trump card in si-
! lencing dis
Kaiser Would End cordant ele-
Bavarian Antipathy. xar,a % Who N a are
completely out Of sympathy with his
strictly Prussian policies, by selecting
| Count Won Hertling. prime minister Of
King Ludwig's state. as imperial chan
cellor. The ancient Bavarian antipathy
| toward the Hohenzollerns has been ac-
centuated during the present war by
the kaiser's methods and by the ruth
| less sacrifice of Bavarian units to save
the Prussian in military operations.
| Unrest in Bavaria has grown marked
| in the past year Notwithstanding the
| efforts of King Ludwig and Won Hert-
| ling to gloss over the situation. Prince
Won Hohenloe Is the only other Ba-
varian ever called to sit at the head of
the council boards in Berlin. Won Hert-
ling always has been radically opposed
| to parliamentarization and equal fran
| chise reforms, as well as any step tend
| ing to undermine in the slightest mon
archiaI forms Though taking this
viewpoint of things. 1t also is apparent
that he is not wholly in sympathy with
| the policy of wide annexations and
great indemnities as reason for contin-
| uing the struggle.
/
! Hertling already has drawn the fire of
4 the two main conflicting elements in
the German political situation. the
| chief of which Is the reichstag major
| ity firmly committed to internal re-
! forms and a peace policy based on the
sacrifice Of annexations and indemni-
! ties. Notwithstanding his opposition to
! many of the reichstag principles, Won
| Hertling, on the other hand. Is being
assailed by the pan-Germans. though
| he is more of pan-German than he is
| anything else.
| Instead of solving the perplexing in
| ternal problems which undoubtedly
| have distracted attention from the
| main business at hand-the war on
| the entente powers-the kaiser again
| seems to have opened the way for
! greater discord than he did when he
placed Michaelis in the chancellorship.
| Won Hertling, however. is a man of
| tried craftsmanship and possibly will
avoid the blunders which Michaelis re-
| peatedly committed during his tenure
! Of ofica.
! Won Hertling, being a Bavarian, nat
| urally has aroused antagonism among
those elements which desire to see the
| nation firmly in the hands of Prussian
men and swayed by Prussian policies
| and methods.
Repeated reports have emanated
! from Scandinavia. largely based on
| Rerlip presS cou1uppt that yo0 HAeY.