The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-29
:KORNlLOFF IS
PLAIN IN HIS I
CONFERENCE TALK
Tells the Moscow Meeting the
Plain Truth of the Entire
Situation.
HE WAS WARMLY RECEIVED
He Says the Russian Army Must
Get a New Inspiration if the
Nation Lives--Peace Alone
With Victory.
HE WAS WARMLY RECEIVED

Moscow, Aug. 2S.-The second gen
eral sitting of the national conference
was held this afternoon General
korniloff, the commander in chief, en-
tered the hall in company with Prem
Ter Kerensky. His appearance was
the signal for prolonged and en-
thusiastic ovation. All the delegates
cheered for Russia, the revolution
airy government and the army.
Vladimir Naboukoff, prominent
social democrat, speaking in the
name of the first duma, declared the
country aimed at the establishment
Of strong and independent power,
uninfluenced by political parties; a
power which, based on democratic
principles, would establish obedience
to the law, civil liberty and personal
security. The Speaker emphasized the
absolute necessity of the independ-
ence of the high command of the
army from private influence.
the first duman repudiated with indig-
2 nation all thoughts of separate
peace and that if they were to have
peace they did not desire it to be the
result of German victory, but the con-
sequence of the triumph of Russia
and her allies.
or 10 Gin 10y dor
laration on behalf Of the second duma.
Premier Kerensky then introduced
General Korniloff, saying the govern
ment had thought it necessary to in
vite the commander in chief to lay
before the conference the situation at
the front and in the army. General
Korniloff said the death penalty res
toration of which he had asked, to-
gether with other measures, consti-
tutes only small part Of what was
necessary in an army stricken with
the terrible evils of disorganization
and INSTRUMENTATION.
In the present month, General Kor-
niloff said, soldiers had killed four
regimental commanders and other of
ficers and ceased these outrages only
when they were threatened with be
ing shot Quite recently one of the
regiments of Siberian rifles, which
had fought SO splendidly at the be-
ginning of the revolution, abandoned
its positions on the Riga front. Moth
ing except an order to eXterminate
the entire regiment availed to cause
it to return to its positions.
THUS we are implacably fighting
anarchy in the army the com
mander continued Undoubtedly ii
will finally be repressed, but the dan
ger of fresh debacles is weighing
constantly on the country. u H
THE situation e the front is bad
We have lost the whole of Galicia
the whole of Bukowina and all the
fruits of our recent vicotries. At sew
eral points the enemy has crossed
our frontier and is threatening oul
fertile southern provinces. He is en-
deavoring to destroy the Rumaniar
army and is knocking at the gates OF
Riga. If our army does not hold the
shore of the Gulf of Riga, the road tt
Petrograd will be opened wide.
1.-THE old regime bequeathed tt
Russia an army which, despite all the
defectt in it's organization, neverthe
less wax animated by fighting spiri
and was ready for sacrifices. The
whole series of measures taken b.
those who are completely foreign t.
5 the spirit and needs of the army hal
transformed it into a collection of in
dividual groups which have lost al