The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
Central Authority Gradually Emerging Out of Exist ing Chaos Since Over
 throw of Kerensky
CONFERENCE NAMES COMMITTEE AS THE
 LAWFUL AUTHORITY,
Dispatch Received by Russian Elm bassy at Washington Tells of Bright Prospect for Over
 coming the Entire Bol-
 shevik Regime

Washington, September 26.
 Ont of the chaos which has
 existed Tn Russia since the
 overthrow of the Kerensky
 government by the bolsheviki there is emerging q central
 authority which officials and
 diplomats here hope will be
 able to re-establish order and
 renew the fight against the
 common enemy.
 official information reached the Rus sian embassy today that tho Pan-Rus- sia. which has been recognized by all
 the provisional governments opposing the bolsheviki, including the Siberian government, g has constituted commit tee of five as the lawful authority for Iall Russia. This committee will be re-
 sponsible to the constituent assembly Iof all Russia, which will convene next
 January l, provided 250 members at
 tend
 Composing the conference at oufa were all members of the constituent assembly which have gathered in SamAra, except who belong to the fac lions of the bolsheviki and of the so- Icial revolutionaries of the east Att ltending the conference also were dele gates of the Siberian government, of the union of liberty of the people. of the group of the renaissance, and of the social reyolutionist and social dem ocratic parties.
 The committee of five set up as the |sovereign authority is composed of NJ.
 rchaicovsky o fthe Government of ths
 North at Archangel; M. Volosodsk head of the western Siberian goverA
 ment; M Astorf former mayor of Mos |cow. and member of the constitutions
 democratic party; Lieutenant Gener
 Boldireff, one of the foremost militaIA
 experts of Russia. and M. Avkser |tieff.
 SUMMARY OF DISPATCH The dispatch to the Russian embassg telling of the results of the Pan-Rus sian conference came from the chiet of the department of foreign affair lof the Oufa government and was sum marked in this statement:
 'As the separate provinces of Rus sia are being delivered from the yoke l of bolshevikism, the temporary organs l of legal authority are reconstituting and uniting themselves. On the terri I tory of European Russia they were con- jcentrating under the authority of lcommittee of members of the constitu- | ents assembly of all Russia, while in l Siberia they were rallying under the 1 provisional government of Siberia. "The committee of the members of | the constituent assembly of all Rus sia consists of all the members of the constituent assembly which have gath cred in Saniara. except who belong to the factions of the left, members of 1 such factions being considered as lav- ling renounced their titles of members of constituent and therefore have lost their right to join the committee. , The committee of the members of the constituent assembly units political par 1 ties which;
 T. Remain loyal to the allies ?. Re- ject any idea of separate peace. g. Do
 not recognize the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. l. Have decided to continue the war against the bolsheyiki and Germans in alliance with the Czecho- -Slovaks. "The committee of the members of the constituent assembly in It's aim to cre- ate an united and powerful governments represents itself as tho source Of au-
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