Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-06
Persons Incitirg Demenstra-
tions Will Be Regarded as
Traitors to Country.
PEOPLE ARE ASKED
TO REMAIN CALM
Provisional Governments Note Soon
to Go to Allies to End
Cause of Troubles.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
PETROGRAD, May 5, via London.-In
consequence of the disorders which oc-
Cured yesterday in Petrograd. the ex-
| ecutive committee of the council OF
| workmen's and soldiers delegates has
decided unanimously to forbid all pub
| lie meetings and demonstrations for the
next two days.
Any one who incites the people to
take part in any demonstrations or fires
a shot will be regarded as traitor to
| the cause of the revolution. The COM
mittee will submit to the council for in
vestigation the causes leading to the
firing of shots in the streets of Petrograd
yesterday.
Appeals for Calm.
The executive committee has placard-
ed the streets with a proclamation ap-
pealing to the people to maintain calm.
order and discipline and calling upon
the soldiers not to go out carrying arms
and to obey only orders bearing the
official signature of the executive coun-
Gil. The proclamation also appeals TO
the workmen and soldiers not to take
part in public meetings or demonstra-
tions while carrying arms.
The sittings of the grand council of the
| workmen's and soldiers delegates ended
late last night after the delegates nao
discussed a Supplementary communication
from the provisional government. explain
ing the note of May to the allies. ihe
council passed resolution declaring thai
the governments new note. which 1t will
send to the allies, puts an end to all in
terpretations of the note Of May i con-
trary to the interests and aims OF the
revolutionary democracy,
Sees Victory for Democracy.
Another resolution was adopted declar-
ing that the policy of annexation for the
first time had been made the subject OF
! International discussions, and this fact
should be considered an important victory
for democracy. Tho irssclutapn cencanded:
.The executive committee. while assert
ing its unalterable determination not TO
| make peace except on these conditions'
appeaIs to the entire revolutionary de-
mocracy Of Russia to rally around the
council of workmen's and soldiers dele
gates. and declares its firm assurance tnat
the peoples of all the belligerent coun-
tries will be able to overcome the resist
ance of their governments and force them
| to enter upon negotiations for peace on
q
lions and indemnities."
EXPLANATION of Note.
The explanation of the note of May 1.
which the provisional government gave
to the council and which Will be
forwarded to the allied governments,
follows:
.The note was subjected to long and
detailed examination by the provisional
government and was unanimously ap-
proved. 1t was obvious that this note.
in speaking of decisive victory, had
in view a solution of the problems
which were mentioned in the communl-
cation of April and which was thus
| specified:
right and duty to declare now that
| free Russia does not aim at the DOM
ination of other nations or at depriv-
ing them of their national patrimony,
or at occupying by force foreign terri
tories, but that its object is to estab-
lish a durable peace on the basis of
the rights of nations to decide their
own destiny. The Russian nation does
not lust after the Strengthening of it's
power abroad at the expense of other
nations; it's aim is not to subjugate or
the higher principles of equity. the
Russian people have broken the chains
which fettered the Polish nation, but
it will not suffer that its own country
shall emerge from the great struggle
humiliated or weakened in its vital
force
'In referring to the penalties and
guarantees essential to a durable
peace. the provisional government had
| in view the reduction of armaments. the
establishment of international tribun-
ais, ct cetera. This explanation will be
| communicated by the minister of for
eign affairs to the ambassadors of the
allied powers"
Duma to Meet Soon.
| The duma, it is announced, will be
| convoked in extraordinary session i'm
mediately. This will be the first time
| the duma has met since the revolution
which overthrow the Romanoff dynasty
Says Russ Must Ask Peace.
The newspapers, liberal and socialist,
comment on yesterdays settlement as
great victory for democracy. At the
! same time they counsel moderation and
| the preservation of good relations with
the provisional government in the in
1 terests of internal peace. Maxim
| Gorkys Novaia Zhizn says:
THE experiment government was a
4 failure Democracy should feel salts
| fed But valuable time has been lost
! and the country is nearer wreck
/ Democracy whose desire is peaces
| which is the only safety for the coun.
| try, must not be passive. Its duty 10
| not only to prevent a repetition of
! experiments like that of April 2S, but
| it must insist upon immediate further
steps by the government toward peace.
! A new program of peace without an
| nexation or indemnity must be offered
/ in the near future by the allies and
requested by the government in the
| name of the Russian people"
Demands Breaking of Treaties.
| The Dyet says: THE revolution has
achieved another victory. 1t has re-
ceived from the temporary government
| a categorical reputation of expropria-
tion and contributions. AS soon as this
declaration was published. the Bolshe-
visky (the most radical of the socialist
| group) demanded from the government
| the rupture of the treaties concluded
| between Russia and her allies before
| the revolution. The old regime was
ready to break these treaties to save
the monarchy. Democracy criticised
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