The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-19
Adopts As Its Aim Re-Es- tablishment of General Peace Without Domina- tion Over Other Nations, or Seizure of Their Ma tional. Possessions - A Peace Without Annexa- tion or Indemnity.
Minister of War Kerensky Makes Stirring Appeal to Congress of Peasants Declares will Inaugurate System of Iron Discipline
 in Army = Commanding Generals Return to Front.

Petrograd, May 1S.!The provisions, government declared today that it was united in the rejection of a separate peace and that it adopts as it's aim the re-establishment of general peace which will not tend either to dom1na- fion over other nations or to the selz- ure of their national possessions--a peace without annexation or 1ndean- nifty.
 The government expresses it's con- yiction that the Russian aSny will not suffer the Germans to destroy Rus sia's western aInes-
 Minister of War Kerensky has is- sued the following order of the day to the army:
 .aThe country Is in danger. Each one must do what he can to avert the peril. No request to be allowed to re- sign, made by officers in high com- mand with a desire to escape respon- sibility at a time so grave, will be ac- cepted by me. Deserters are enjoined to return to the army and fleet by May 2S. ,Au irfractions of this order win be seyerely punished"
 After. a conference with the govern n1ent the dunna committee and the council of delegates, the command ing generals have returned to the front
 M. Mfluaqn, former foreign minis ter, has refusef to accept the ministry of education because his presence sir the cabinet would involve 8 responsi- bilfty for the pcrtested foreign policy of the administration He considers this polscy dangerous and likely tr compromise Russia's relations witt her allies
 Addressing the congress of peasants M Kerenslxy announced his determdn ation to iufroduoe an iron discfpiins into the army and made an innpas stoned appeal for the support in re storing the morale of Russia's ni11tar. force A great HemonStrataon occurred after he had completed his address The delegates embraced the mdniste and carried him on their shoulders t. his aufcmobi1e. M Kerenssxy said il part.
 We must before everything conso1 idate the civic liberty the .revoautio1 gave us and we shall not do this i each does not do his duty to his coun try with complete self sacrifice. Le us show tho world we know not on1 how to destroy but also to create.
 --Solllers, sailors and officers, I ca.
 
 am your servant Help me to sho, the world that the Russian army 1 not a demolished temple but is stron and formidable, capable of making ii self respected and of defending tn free republic of democratic Russia Tt may appear strange that I, civilian who was never a soldier, hay undertaken the heavy task of resto1 ing discipline in the army, bnt ac cept it because understand that thi discipline is based on your duty an reciprocal respect have neve known what this discipline is, br nevertheless propose to introduce a iron discipline into the army, and am sure shall succeed
 This is necessary not only at tf front but also in the interior of tf country in order to bring the liDert which has been conquered into tf constituent assembly. This great ns tiona1 council, invested with sovereig authority, win show that it does nt wish to repeat the sad events of tt revolution of 1905, when the peasant conquered the land but were. not ab to keep it in their hands
 T am shortly going to the iron Allow me, therefore, to say in tr trenches that the Russian peasan wish to have the land which belonf to them and that no force shall tai At from them But also allow me gay that the peasants demand, in O. der to achieve this object, that ever, one shall do his duty in a spirit self sacrifice"