The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-27
R(jSS QUAINT IIEE
FORMED III DIRECT
WARACAInSTHUnS
Five Leaders Chosen as Lawful!
Authority for Entire
Country.
BOLSHEv|KI ARE KEPT OUT
Central Rule Expected to Re-EstabIish
order and Renew Fight-Has
Army of 2oo,0OO-To Be
Loyal to Allies.

washington, Sept. 27.-Out of the
chaOs which has existed in Russia
since the overthrow of the Kerensky
government by the bOlsheviki there Is
emerging a central authority which
officials and diplomats here hope will
Do able to re-eStablish order and re-
new the fight against the common
enemy.
Official information reached the
RUSSIAN embassy that the pan-Russian
conference at Oufa, European Russia,
which has been recognized by all the
provisional governments opposing the
bolsheviki, including the Siberian gov
ernment, has constituted committee
of five as the lawful authority for all
Russia.
This committee will be responsible
to the constituent assembly of all
Russia, which will convene next Janu-
ary 1 provided 25O members attend.
Big Men on Committee.
The committee Of five set up as the
sovereign authority is composed of M.
TSchaicOvsky of the government Of
Q
the north of Archangel; NJ. Vologodsy,
head of the western Siberian govern
ment; M. Astor, former mayor Of Mos
COW and member of the constitutional
democratic party Lieutenant General
BOldireff, one of the foremost experts
Of Russia and NJ AvkSentieff.
A dispatch to the Russian embassy
from M. Golovatcheff, assistant minis
ter of foreign affairs of the Omsk gov
ernment, said that an army of more
than 100000 men had been formed in
Siberia by conscription and that there
were 10000 officers available there to
train and lead it.
The army is being organized on the
basis of strict military discipline, 1t
was said, and will continue an increas-
ingly powerful force to cooperate with
the allied and CzechO- SlOvak forces In
Siberia
Many Sections United.
The dispatch to the Russian en-
bassy telling of the Pan-Russian con
ference came from the chief Of the
department of foreign affairs Of the
Oufa government and was summarized
in this statement:
"As the separate provinces Of Rus
sia are being delivered from the yoke
of bolshevikism the temporary organs
of legal authority are reconstituting
and uniting themselves. On the terri
tory of European Russia they were
concentrating under the authority of
committee of members of the constit-
uent assembly of all Russia, while in
Siberia they were rallying under the
provisional government of Siberia.
"The committee of the members Of
the constituent assembly Of all Russia
consists of all the members of the con-
stituent assembly which have gathered
in Samara, except who belong to the
factions of the bolsheviki and of the
social revolutionists of the left, mem
bers of such factions being considered
as having renounced their titles OF
members Of constituent and therefore
having lost their right to Join the COM
mittee.
Allied With Czecho- Slovaks.
"The committee of the members of
the constituent assembly unites po-
litical parties which Q) remain loyal
to the allies, (2) reject any idea of
separate peace, (3) do not recognize
the treaty Of Brest-LitOvsk and (4)
have decided to continue the war
against the bolshevikf and Germans In
alliance with the CZecho-SlovakS.
''The committee of the members Of
the constituent assembly, in It's aim to
create a united and powerful govern
ment, represents itself as the source Of
authority, and considers itself as sue
cessor to the late provisional govern
ment of all Russia.
''The sovereign authority has been In
vested with body of five persons re-
sponsible to the constituent assembly
of all Russia, the convOcation of which
is deferred to the first of January,
1915, on condition that $50 members