Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-05-15
Resignation of Two High Officials Believed to Mean
 Disaffection.
TURKEY MAKING
 PEACE PROPOSAL
Ottoman Empire Reported to Have In- dicatcd Willingness to Make dOn. sessions tO Russia, If Latter
 Lays Down Arms.

Russia still looms ir the eyes of the world as the potential obstacle to an early successful issue of the war for the entente nations and the United States over Germany and her allies
 With the far from satisfactory state of affairs between the council of workmen and soldiers deputies and high Russian officials which has resulted in the resignation of the commander of the forces in Petro- grad and of the minister of war and marines, comes renewal of rumors that Turkey is following in the foot steps of Germany and Austro-Hun- gary, and endeavoring to make a sep arate peace.
 The compensation said to have been offered by Turkey means the opening of the Dardanelles to Rus sian ships. Turkey also is agreeable. if Russia will consent to lay down her arms, to consider satisfactory settlement of the Armenian question, long thorn in the side of mankind. and likewise to deal with her various subjects on the principal of national | ity. n While there have been rumors tn 1t the council of workmen and soldiers deputies have called for an armisticc. official denial is made ty the council. On the con trary, it is said an appeal to the soldiers is being drawn up, declaring against separate peace.
 Ministers Pessimistic. Petrograd, Sunday. May 13. via London. May IA, (dclayed)-In an important appeal to the delegates at the front. M. Kerensky, minister of Justice, has made the most alarming diagnose of the internal crisis that has come from any official since the revolution.
 The minister of justice, who here tofore has made only optimistic state- ments, has confessed that his conf. dence has left him and that he fear ed disaster. .T4E-7 Washington Worried, Washington, May 14.-News of the overthrow of two dominating mili- tary figures in the Russian capital has added greatly to the apprehen-
 
 movement to which the encourage ment and moral support of this goy- ernment soon is to be carried by a commission of distinguished Ameri- cans. r
 Although the American mission, which received final instructions from President Wilson today, will take pains not to interfere unduly in Russian internal affairs, officials made no secret of the hone that one result Of the visit will be to strength en the position of the new democratic government. Members of the mission spent more than an hour with the president at the white house and later with Secretary Lansing War Minister Qults. Petrograd, via London, May 14.- General Guchkoff. minister of war; has | resigned.
 In announcing his resignation at yesterdays meeting of the congress of { delegates from the front, M. GuchkOff read the following letter sent by him to Premier Lvoff:
 | "In view of the condition in which the provisional government has been placed, and especially the authority of the minister of war. in relation to the army and the navy. condition which | I am powerless to alter, and which threatens to have consequences fatal to the defense, the liberty and even the existence of Russia, I can no longer exercise the functions of min- ister of war and marine and share responsibility for the grave sin being committed against the country"