New Britain herald., 1917-11-27
GHASTLY FAILURE
 AT ADMINISTRATION Russian ReYolutioniSts in Hope-
 less Chaos Says Correspondent VAST GOLD RESERVE SAFE

While Russia Is at Unrest. the Italians
 Are Stubbornly Resisting the Ans
 trians in the Invasion, While the
 British Continue to Flow Through
 the Germans.
 London, Nov. 27, CAssociated Press) The Russian revolutionists have made "ghastly failure," of their at- tempt at administration, according to the Petrograd correspondent of the Morning Post" writing under date of Saturday. He adds:
 But behind or beyond all this ap- parently hopeless chaos, the forces which made Russia an empire are not idle and those who know Russian his tory understand perfectly how mat ters will end. "Even as l write tho situation is becoming clear. The elec- tions to the constituent assembly will take place but the constituent as- sembly will not meet the success of the Bolsheviki movement, whatever that movement may really cover, as it already has damned the constituent assembly.
 Meantime I will call attention to the following facts:
 The vast gold reserve of the Rus sian empire which was removed from Petrograd to the Kremlin in 1894 was later carried still farther into the interior. It is in safe hands.
 General Kaledines, hetman of united Cossackdom is in secure pos session, with truthworthy and disci- plined troops of all arms of all those regions of European Russia that pro- duced a harvest this year, and is rapidly capturing those remaining ter ritorles upon which Russia relies for its daily bread.
 A last union, under the name of the Southeastern Union has been formed. It includes the Don terri tory, great part of Little Russia, the lower Volga provinces and Turkestan the area which feeds all Russia. This union is extending and promises to cover the Siberian corn land.
 General Kaledines, holding the gold reserve and the bread supplies, Is master of the situation and those he serves will accept dictation neither from Kerensky, IIenine nor anybody else, least of all from Germany.
 "The Allies may safely admit a lowing acquaintance with the curious individualities thrown up from the depths by internal disturbances, but for intimate friendship and future partnership they must look elsewhere and in the meantime must await un- concernedly until their old friends re- ov
 Italian Headquarters.
 Italian Headquarters, Northern Italy Nov. 26.-During 8 trip of one hun dred miles today through the fighting zone in the north, the correspondent met the major-general commanding the most exposed front between the Brenta and Piave rivers, where the pressure has been greatest and the losses heaviest and obtained from him details of the situation and the splen- did fight his troops are making against heavy odds.
 The general estimated these odds at four or five to one, but even against such odds his men were fighting with a power of resistance, courage and dash beyond all rraise. Attacks were almost continuous at one point or an- other, but the Italians were always ready to respond, and had not only repulsed attacks but driven the ene- my back after a series of heroic charges
 The general summed up the physi- cal conditions of the battle-ground which made the struggle particularly trying on the troops, the terrible strain of endurance and natural fa-
  of ceaseless fighting, the extreme cold, lack of shelter, no trenches or dug outs, and no water from unfailing sources.
 After summing up the physical hardships, the general added that there was the still more serious con- dition of many commands being with very few officers, as the continuous fighting had told terribly on officers. As result now men were suddenly called upon to lead large forces far beyond their experience and sub-off1- cers as we'll as Junior officers were directing superior commands in many instances.
 The general said that there have been fearful losses among the troops, which required a constant reforming of companies, regiments, brigades and divisions. But with all these terrible conditions, the general said the spirit of the men was unabated in the deter imitation to hold any cost.
 British Headquarters.
 British Army Headquarters in France, Nov 26.--British troops. in- cluding some from London last night continued to bore their way forward through tho Hindenburg support linc west of Moeuvres. There was vigorous fighting at close quarters in this re- zion, and, as a result, the British to- day were in possession of further