The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-27
DEATHPENA[TY
TO HELP QUE[[
S[AV REVOLT
Capital Punishment Restored
in Russia
DECREE BY KERENSKY
Gen. BrusiIoff Threatened to Resign
Unless Given Power tosWipe
Out INSTRUMENTATION
DECREE BY KERENSKY

Petrograd, July 26.-Premier Ker-
ensky, now clothed with the full
powers of a dictator, has taken dras-
tic means to put into effect his an
nounced programme to save the revo-
luton and the army. if need be, with
blood and iron. Dispatches to the AS
sociated Press from the various
quarters of the Russian field show
these important movements:
The provisional Government has re
stored the death penalty, at the in
sistent demand of Gen. Korniloff.
Field courts-martial have been es-
tablished to impose the penalty upon
meet the serious situation at the
front. They are composed of three
officers and three men.
A general conference of all the or
ganizatlons representing the forces be
hind the revolution has been called
to meet at Moscow.
Orders have been issued to run
down the German agents whose eff
forts and money are alleged to be re-
sponsible for the disorder and mutiny
now distressing the nation.
By Kerensky decree, the publica
ton of all papers which preach dis
order and disobedience is prohibited,
and their editors are notified they
will be prosecuted vigorously
A new proclamation was issued by
the representatives of the soldiers,
workmen and peasants calling for
support OF the revolutionary author.
ity and urging all the Russian fac
tions to rally to the aid of Kerensky.
These things are recorded as the
first fruits of the determination of the
Kerensky regime TO stamp out anar-
chy and restore order II was only
upon the insistent demand of Gen.
Korniloff, who is battling to save the
remnants of the armies in Galicia,
| that the death penalty, abolished by
the first revolutionary government
was restored. And even then the
| threat of resignation on the part of
| Korniloff and the assurance that
| the measure was imperative as "the
| only means of saving the army" were
required to bring the fear of the hans
man and of the firing squad to the
aid of the element that is seeking to
| bring order out of chaos.
Not only at the front, but in the
troubled capital is the new order re
storing the death penalty expected tC
bring results. Observers from coun
tries vitally interested in the saliva
/, tion of Russia have seen in the new
order the placing of n weapon in the
hands of the Kerensky government
| by which order may be restored IN
both civil and military fields S0n,
correspondent. telegraphing the fadts
insisted that it afforded the onl,
means of bringing to their senses The
leaders of the ignorant masses tina
had been responsible for the recen
uprisings. for the reason that the!
had reached stage where no othe
remedy appealed to them at all.
| Kerensky in an interview toda,
said the fundamental problem of th'
provisional Government was to pro
vide for the immediate safety of th'
country and the revolution whateye
might be the cost. The Government
he said. was thoroughly conscious o
the duty before 1t and was determir
ed to make resolute stand agains
anything which threatened the ruin o
tho State.