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KERENSKY AGAIN
TAKES Up BURDEN
Consents to Resume Task of Try
ing to Save Russia From
Itself.
HAILED AS NATIONS SAVIOR
Realizes Country Is Threatened
With Defeat From Without
and Disintegration Within.

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PETROGRAD. August 5.-Premier
kerensky has returned to PetroErad
and withdrawn his resignation. He at
tended ministeria. meeting on Sat-
urday evening and afterwards con-
ferred with various political leaders
BY vote of 147 to 46 joint meet
ing of the executives of the Working
mems and Soldiers and Peasants
Councils confirmed the decision OF the
all-night political conference of con-
tinucd confidence in Premier kerensky.
The Maximalists strongly protested.
and fortytwo of the members of this
party abstained from voting.
The Duma committee also confirmed
the vote OF continued confidence in NJ.
Kerensky.
CONSIDERS IT INEVITABLE
TO MAKE MANY CHANGES
NJ. Kerensky has issued manifesto.
in which he declares that he considers
1t impossible. when the country is
threatened with defeat without and
disintegration within. to refuse the
heavy task again intrusted to him.
which he regards as express order
from the country to construct strong
revolutionary government to carry out
the principles already laid down.
"At the same time" says the mani
festo. II consider 1t inevitable to in
,roduce changes in the order. and dis
tribution OF government work with
out allowing myself to be Influenced
by the thought that the changes will
Increase my responsibility in the su-
premc direction Of the affairs OF state
RESOLUTION OF CONFIDENCE
IN KERENSKY PASSED
PETROGRAD. August (via Lon
don. August 5).-The all-night politi-
cal conference at the Winter Palace
which was concluded this morning by
the passage Of q resolution in which
confidence in Premier Kerensky was cx.
pressed by each Of the five parties rep.
resented. and in which he was invitet
20 form his own Cabinet, was conducted
in the strictest order, but with intense
emotion. All the participants were OBJ.
viously convinced that the decision
which was to be reached meant Rus.
sia's regeneration or her ruin.
In conversation with the Associat ed
Press correspondent. who was per.
mittcd to be present, the ministers de
clared the conference to be the mos
momentous event in the history of the
empire since 1913. when. during the
troublous times of the Polish war ant
internal anarchy, the election Of the
h1- Si
of notables at Moscow saved the coun.
try from dissolution.
The debate resolved itself into z
series OF panegyrics of the absent
Kerensky. who was acclaimed the only
man invested with the qualities neces
sary to restore order while preserving
liberty. Foreign Minister Tercstchenkc
declared that peace was inconceivable
that Russia must prepare to igh
throughout the winter. and that Pre-.
mier Kerensky alone possessed tn,
confidence OF the nation. NJ. Tsere
tell, the Minister Of Posts and Tele
graphs, in an emotional speech, echoed
the view that Kerensky was the onl,
man who could save the country II
order 10 alleviate his task, declared the
speaker. the government would alb.
stain from forcing through the part,
program.
PREMIER Is DESTINED
TO BE RUSSIA'S SAVIOR
After these men had spoken, the
procurator of the Holy Synod. NJ. Lvoff
rose and said that he. too. considered
the Premier the man destined to b,
Russia's savior. Minister of Justice
Fremof said almost the same words ir
turn. describing the Premier as an in
dispensable man.
Paul n. Milukoff. leader of the Con
stitutional Democrats. stated that hi.
party was still ready to attempt tn,
formation of coalition government
with NJ. Kerensky as n chief. who hat
all the qualifications for success.
After an interval, the debate was re
sumed, and Vice-Premier Nekrasoff, an
nounced the demands that had beer
made by General Korniloff for assur
ances from Petrograd that he wouic
have drastic powers, without which h,
would not take over the chief com
mand of the Russian armies.
counter-revolution exists. added NJ
Nekrasof. and is growing day by day
Therefore, the restoration Of stronl
government, he declared. must be i'm
mediate.
The only matter on which there Il
not unanimity in the counsels of th'
leaders is the status Of the Councils O
Deputies. a representative of the Coun
Gil of Soldiers and Workmen CAV,
warning that in his opinion the pro
posed exclusion OF the councils from