Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-07-25
BERLIN REPORTS
Truss IN FLIGHT
Claims Advance on 155-MlIe
Front With Capture of
Prisoners.
kERENSKY TO KILL TRAITORS
Blood and Iron Policy Is Adopted by
the New Premier-Constitution OF
tho New Provisional Govern.
ment Is Completed.

Berlin, July 25.-The German forces
In Gallcia are advancing from the Riv-
er Sereth to the wooded Carpathians
over front 155 miles wide, says the
official statement issued by the Ger
man army headquarters staff.
Several German divisions, the state
ment adds, report that they have each
taken 5000 prisoners. Numerous
heavy Russian guns have been cap
tured 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 proceed
ing. The statement says great sue
cesses have been obtained by the Ger
man and allied arms.
The Germans have advanced beyond
Podhajoe, Halicz and the Bysteritza-
Solotvina river, and have crossed the
Sereth south of Farnopol, the war Of
fee reports.
The Russians have taken the often
sive on both ends of the front in the
regions of Jacobstadt and Dvinsk, and
on the Roumanian line. The an
nouncement says that offensive opera
tons by Russian and Roumanian
troops in the Trotus and Putna val
leys were defeated almost everywhere.
Fresh fights have developed.
Announce New Cabinet.
Petrograd, July 25.-Russia will
shoot down as traitors the mutineers
in her armies and the German spies in
her cities.
Premier Kerensky has completed the
constitution OF the new provisional
government. Like the ministry of his
predecessor, Prince Lvoff, the cabinet
Is q coalition, but it. is limited to ten
members. Five of the ministers belong
to the socialist group, and five are
members of non-socialist parties The
other Offices of state will be directed
not by ministers, but by unpolitical di-
members of the cabinet. Following Is
the list:
Socialists - Alexander Kerensky,
minister president and minister Of war
and marine; NJ. Tseretelli, minister of
posts and telegraphs; NJ. Skobeleff,
minister of labor; M. Tchernoff, min
istersof agriculture; NJ. PieschehonOff,
minister Of supplies.
Nonsocialists-N. V. Nekrasoff, vice
minister president without portfolio
NJ. Terestchenko, minister of foreign
affairs; I. N. Efremoff, minister Of
justice (M. Fremoff is member Of
the dumas temporary committee) ;
Nicholas Lvoff, procurator of the holy
synod; M. Godneff, controller Of state.
Have Unlimited Power"
The directors of departments so far
named are: M. Prokopovitch, progress
sive member of the duma, department
of trade and agriculture; A. A. Bar
ishnikoff, a member Of the duma and
a Moscow manufacturer, department
Of social tutelage. The headquarters
Of the provisional government has
been transferred from the Marinsky
palace to the winter palace.
Clothed with unlimited powers"
the new peoples cabinet was pre-
pared to invoke measures Of blOodshed
to stop the rout Of the southeast army
and to clean out the nests Of German
provocators scattered throughout the
nation.
Premier Kerensky, arriving at the
front, was expected to order loyal
troops without mercy to shoot down
such of their fellow soldiers who
yielded to German propaganda and
started mutiny.
Blood and Iron Policy.
In an interview the premier said:
"Relying upon the confidence Of the
masses and the army, the government
will save Russia and Russian unity by
blood and iron, If argument and rea-
son, honor and conscience are not suf-
f1cient.
"The situation at the front is very
serious and demands heroic measures.
But I am convinced the organism Of
the state Is sufficiently vigorous to be