Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-25

sn,as ,swnere hunting down deserters and
tior a.. ~ was apparently at his susres-
-. 'iat tne closest scrutiny was viyar
tonas, one OF the 500 delegates who at.
WorLn,o Al-Russian meeting of the
ana Soldiers Congress today,
rec,od a Ischeidze, of the meeting, di-
prove the credentials of his nsiybhor up
Meanwhile the people of Russ,a oo
ousy' i saw several sneakers ogatns, - ~
nres.ed or severely beaten by crowds on
we Nevsky Prospekt. One "Jew.bai,or"
the police ''er u
81, me whoie nation is engaged in a glRan.
t'c man hunt-the man being Nicholai
.henine, the pacifst agitator, now con-
uemned by the Government as n naid ca
man agent. In almost every town T.,
western Russia soldiers and townspeonIa
are making a house-to-house search for
tne man who formerly swayed street an
dlences in Petrograd Steklov. Lenines
closest associate was the first fruit of this,
nationwide search. lie was taken in
custody in Finnish town
Lenine evidently realizes his peril wher.
e,er , ne is Iodays issue of Maxim Cor
kys newspaper printed letter from Le-
nine denying he was German agent.
NO one knows yet whether Madame
Sumensen (named in official statements
recently as one of the heads of the Ger
man propaganda service in Russia. or her
associates received cent for herself or
her party" the letter asserted
we want our cases TO be considered by
the Workmen's and Soldiers Congress.
III we are handed over to the military IL
means death for us-and that would be
sheer Dreyfuslsm."
Immediate Introduction of iron deter
mination to achieve order and discipline"
IN the army was demanded in n message
telegraphed the War Office from the COM
missares of the seventh and eighth Itussian
armies on the southwest front today. ac-
cording to wireless messages received from
Petrograd
After the army had reached a condi-
ton where 1t was possible for IL to assume
the offensive ii is now in full flight" the
message said. We demand the immediate
introduction of iron determination to
achieve order and discipline, to prevent
deSerters exposing the front, causing the
death of whole detachments and covering
with unforgettable ignominy the revolution
and the fatherland."
NO choice should be given macontents, ="
the telegram continued Capital punish
ment should be meted out to those refusing
TO risk their lives for the fatherland Thus
they would only guarantee that the blood
already shed has not been shed in vain. -
Representatives of the Russian Baltic
fieet personnel, assembled at HelsinCfors
today. adopted resolutions denouncing re-
cent demonstrations" in Petrograd as "po-
ltical criminality" The nation at large
was warned there was urgent necessity
that the people rally to support of the
all-Russan executive committee of the
congresses of workmen, peasants and SOL
ders. There must be no more demonstra-
tions, the resolution declared. without gov
ernmental permission.
The provisional Cabinet today appointed
special commission to investigate the
demonstrations.
Admiral Razovozoff was today appointed
in command of the whole Baltic fleet
The Significance in the Baltic fleet reso.
luton lies in the fact that it was sailors
from kronstadt who first started the riot.
ing in Petrograd last week.
A delegation from Kronstadt arrived to.
day bearing a resolution of loyalty from
that fortress to the provisional Govern
ment. They asked that a board of in.
quiry be sent to Kronstadt to find ou,
who was guilty in the recent insurrection.
st move there.
The food situation in Petrograd was
temporarily grave today owing to grea
congestion on the railroads.