Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-07-25
WEDNESDAY, july 25, 1917.

committees Of the council Of work.
mems and soldiers delegates and the
council Of peasants delegates. The
resolution, which was passed by 252
to 81, reads:
Recognizing that the country Is
menaced by n military debacle on the
front and by anarchy at home, it is
resolved:
First: That the country and the
revolution are endangered.
SECOND: That the provisional
government is proclaimed the govern
Ment of national safety.
Third: That unlimited powers are
accorded the government for re-es-
tabl1shing the organization and dis
cipline or the army and a fight to the
finish against the enemies Of public
order, and the first realization of the
whole program embodied in the gov
ernm9ntal program just announced"
combat disaffection.
WE unanimously recognize tina,
the situation demands extreme meas.
nres and efforts, for everything must
be risked to save the revolution from
catastrophe" the message reads.
"The I commander-in-chief of the
western front and the commander Of
the second army to-day have given
Chaotic Conditions at Front.
The chaotic conditions prevailing
on part of the Russian front are dis
closed; IN telegram sent Ito Premier
kerensky, the provisional government
and the council of workmen's and
soldiers delegates by the executive
committee and the commissioner Of
the provisional government with the
second army, on the southwestern
front. The telegram announced the
Inauguration of stern measures to
orders to fire On deserters and run
aways5
Let the country know the truth!
Let 1t act without mercy. Let it find
enough courage to strike those who
by their cowardice are destroying
Russia and the revolution
Referring to the threatened dis
aster, the telegram says:
Most military units are in state
Of complete disbrganization. Their
spirit for the offensive has utterly
disappeared. They no longer listen
to orders Of their leaders and they
neglect all exhortations of comrades,
even replying to threats and shots.
Some elements voluntarily evacuate
positions without even waiting for
the approach Of the enemy.
Ceases are on record in which an
order given to proceed with all haste
to such and such a spot to assist COM
rades in distress has been discussed
for several hours at meetings and re-
Inducements consequently have been
delayed several hours.
''These troops abandon their posi-
tions at the first shots Of the enemy.
For a distance Of several hundred
versts long files of deserters, armed
and unarmed, men in good health and
robust, who have lost all shame and
feel they can act altogether with i'm
punity, are proceeding to the rear.
Frequently entire units desert in this
manner"
Evacuating Stanislau.
Petrograd, July 24.-Stanislau is
being evacuated by the Russians, ac-
c0rding to to-night's official state
ment. The Germans have crossed the
| Sereth river in the region of Miku-
lice (south of TarnopoD, defeating
Russian detachments. South of the
Dniester the Russians are retiring
| eastward.
After the Russians had occupied
| the German positions on both sides
| Of Dvinsk-Vilna railroad, the state
ment says, entire units returned to
| their original trenches without Ger
man pressure. A number Of units
refused to obey commands during
battle.
Russians Yielding Ground.
Berlin, July 24.-The German
| forces in Galicia are advancing from
the River Sereth to the wooded Car
pathians, over a front of 1876 miles
wide, says the official statement is
sued to-day by the German army
| headquarters staff.
Several German divisions, the
statement adds, report that they have
each taken 5000 prisoners. Numer-
GUS heavy Russian guns have been
captured and also much booty has
been taken by the Germans.
Over the entire eastern front from
the Baltic to the Black sea bitter
| fighting Is proceeding. The state
mtnt says great successes have been
obtained by the German allied arms.
The Germans have advanced be-
yond Podhajoe, Halicz and the Bys-
tritza-Solotvina river and have cross
| ed the Sereth south of TarnoDol, the
war office reports.
The Russians have taken the often
sive on both ends of the front, in the
regions of Jacobstadt and Dvinsk,
| and on the Rumanian line. The an
nouncement says that offensive ope-
| rati0ns by Russian and Rumanian
troops in the Trotus and Putna val
leys were defeated almost every
whore. Fresh fights deylOped to-day.
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