The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-05
RUSSIAN W0RKMEN
JEALOUS Of NEW
GOVERNMENT
DiSquIeting Disorder in Streets Of
petrOgrad
CHECKED BY MIlUK0Ff'S PLEA
Foreign Minister Tells Rioters Nation
viii Never Consent to Separate
Peace.
CHECKED BY MIlUKOFf'S PLEA

| Peuograd, May 5.-The representa-
tiyes of the workmens and soldiers
committees have apparently reached
an agreement win the luna leader
to sustain the provisional government
BY vote of to l last night the rep
| resentatives in council decided to en-
| dorse the pledges of the goyernmen
| to the allies.
Berman propogandists have
been set upon by the people in th'
streets and serious disorder prevails
| in some quarters. Shots have bee,
| fired and a number of persons are re
ported to have been wounded This
trouble appears to be entirely separ
ate from the demonstrations against
the provisional government There
was an outbreak last night when
Lenin, the separate peace socialist at
tempted TO address the crowd.
London. May demonstration in
Petrograd by soldiers and workmen
against Foreign Minister Milukoff and
the provisional government of Rus
sia have produced a fresh crisis. The
situation is veiled but its tenseness
is alarming, although the demonstra-
tions have not been accompanied by
violence.
The continuance of the war is ap-
parently the great issue and the dem
onstrations on Thursday and again
yesterday are reported TO be the di-
rect result Of the foreign Offices an
nouncement on Wednesday that
Russia vonld keep up the struggle
with the central powers and not de-
sert the allies.
Although dispatch from Petrograd
said that the trouble had been
smoothed over Thursday afternoon,
the following dispatch, sent Thursday
night, said: Although the senti-
ment of the workmens and soldiers
council tonight apparently is against
extreme measures. unless they are
absolutely necessary, every speaker at
the meeting emphasized the conten-
ton that the power in Russia rests in
the hands of the representatives of
the workmen and soldiers and that
they are determined to enforce their
views upon the temporary government
or Immediately dispossess it and con-
struct a government of their own lik-
ing
At 3 O'Clock Thursday afternoon
many hundreds of factory workers
men. women and boys-precedei by
double Giao 90 coId;arc ,,,arcbod down
the Neysky Prospect with banner
inscribed Away with the temporary
government" Otherwise, the city
was normal throughout the day,
though the tenseness caused by the
situation of yesterday still prevails.
dispatch from Petrograd yester
day afternoon said that demonstra
tions by soldiers and workmen against
Foreign Minister Milukoff occurred on
Detachments of soldiers
gathered in front OF the headquarters
of the provisional government carry
ing red flags with inscriptions de
the resignation of the min
ister and paraders carried similar
banners, some of which called for the
of the provisional govern
ment
After extended conferences between
the executive committee of the work
mems and soldiers delegates and the
council of the provisional government
the executive committee decided that
no reason was apparent for demand
ing the designations of the govern
ment The soldiers engaged in the
demonstrations were persuaded by the
to return to their barracks.
An earlier dispatch from the Rus
sian capital yesterday said detach
ments of soldiers gathered in front
Of the palace which is used as the
headquarters of the provisional gov
eminent. carrying red flags with in
scriptions demanding the resignation
Of Foreign Minister Milukoff. The
resignation of NJ Milukoff was de
manded by thousands of soldiers and
workmen who marched the streets
afternoon and evening bear
ing banners inscribed Down with
Discomfort has been smol
dering fer some time on account of
the belief that the minister was not
fully in sympathy with the view
point of the workmen and soldiers.
The present outbreak was direct
result of the announcement made by
the foreign Office to the allied nations
to the effect that Russia would not
slacken her effort in the common
struggle against the central powers
and would observe strickly her en-
gagements with allies. The workmen
and soldiers declare that they should |
have been consulted before this COM
was sent.
The executive committee of the