The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-18
Soldiers Once More Sliding
Back Into Their Trenches.
Allies Soon May Depend Upon
Fighting in East.
COALITION CABINET ACCEPTED
Supplies and Munitions Going
to Army Immediately.
Peasants, Soldiers, Workmen
and Duma Now as One.

Petrograd. May 1s.-Russia's new
coalition cabinet was completed today
and accepted by both the duma and
the soldiers and workmen's council.
Six of the fourteen cabinet places
are to be filled by Socialists under the
new cooperative plan of government
The executive committee of the sol
diers' and workmen's council has ap-
proved the personnel as announced
yesterday. and this choice will I'M
doubtedly be ratified by the congress
of that organization.
Pledge to Allies.
Petrograd. May 1S.-At a private
meeting of the members of the Rus
sian duma to receive reports from
Prof. Paul Milukoff and Alexander
Guchkoff, formerly foreign minister
and minister of war and navy, respec-
lively, in the provisional cabinet. on
the reasons for their designations
from the government. the following
resolution was adopted:
The members of the duma urgent
ly call the attention of the provisional
government at this moment of its re-
organization, to the fact that Russia's
foreign policy, especially in questions
touching upon war and peace, should
be based as of old, on an absolute I'M
shaken loyalty to, our allies for in
terests vital to the honor of our couu-
try are closely bound up with this
loyalty
London, May 1s.-Encouraging news
that Russia had settled her domestic
troubles, and that the Russian army's
power is by no means lost, gave ground
for belief here today that the allies
can soon count on Russia bearing her
part in the general onslaught on Ger
many. The prediction was voiced in
several quarters today that Germany
might soon find the necessity of hur-
ryfng back to the Russian fronts some
If not all. of the rcputed 500, 900 men
she is recently reported to have with
drawn from those sectors to bolster tlp
her dwindling lines on the west front.
Fraternizing between Teutons and
Russians on the fronts has ceased.
There has been resumption of steady
fighting. altho not of major intensity
anywhere. General Brusiloff, held in
highest esteem among the allies for
his military ability, has withdrawn his
resignation Brusiloff, Alexieff and
other high army commanders. were
returning to the front after confer
ences with the new governing groups
III INuSSid- OF lnelT
soldiery - the plain fighters - were
likewise getting back to the trenches
after consultations in Petrograd which
convinced them their interests would
be maintained in the new coalition
government.
Solution of Crisis.
Petrograd, May 1S.-After the soiu-
ton of the governmental crisis by the
reception into the cabinet of five So
cialist representatives of the council
of deputies, Premier Prince Lvoff re-
ceived a representative of the Assoc
ciated Press and authorized him TO
transmit to America an expression of
his satisfaction over the solution and
his confidence in the future. Premier
Lvoff said:
1.-The most serious crisis in the modern
history of Russia has been settled satis-
factorily and conditions already show i'm
provement. IL is my impression that the
coalition cabinet will receive the sup
port of reasonable Russian citizens. We
have for the first time the prospect Of 4
government which will combine both NOR
al authority and material power.
Most of the difficulties of my first revo-
Iutionary cabinet arose from the fact that,
in all questions, ] and my colleagues were
Obliged to rely. solely upon moral per-
suasion. There was no actual govern-
mental power with material force backing
1T became plain that this force could
be obtained only IL representatives of the
Socialist and allied left parties entered
the government and agreed TO support it
unshrinkingly In policy Of combined
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