Show r APPEAL TO THE ARMY AND NAVY t Russian u Jan Revolutionists Ask Sol Soldiers Soldiers diers and Sailors Not to Obey Orders HOLY y WAR IS PROCLAIMED iI HE H WHO FALLS WILL WIN ETER ETERNAL tow NAL FAME St Petersburg July SO The full text of or o the tho appeal to lo the army and navy adopted July 17 by the radical groups of I the tha outlawed parliament in conjunction with the central committees of tho the pro proletariat proletariat organizations is as follows Soldiers and ald sailors Tim The government has by imperial dissolved par parliament parliament and troops have been assembled from all sides to oppress the people by armed force The peoples representatives tives were elected from among your fa fd fathers fathers and brothers in order to lay laj la before the emperor the needs of the people and obtain land and liberty lIbert But the emperor would not listen to the elected of the people eople He hearkened to his former fonner coon coun councillors co un the grand dukes ministers generals gen generals generals and the wealthiest of the land own owners ers who did not want to give up their lands their properties their emoluments amounting to many thousands t of roubles and their irresponsible power Empire Is Divided Russia is now divided Into two to parts On one side is the vast ast majority all the peasants and workmen all the poor and oppressed the best educated and the most enlightened citizens the soldiers who see tho Iho most clearly the best officers and all the martyrs In the tho jails including many thousands of soldiers and sailors On the other side Is a collection of oppressors oppressors t sors ors such as and I the Manchurian generals who ran away a a from the Japanese but who fired on the th people at Moscow and Odessa and the petty government officials of the po police police police lice spies and the whole Black Hundred and these rely on your strength to beat down the whole Russian people t Urged Not to Shoot 3 Will you shoot the people shed the blood of ot the people and transfix the peo peoples peoples I ples plea breasts with bayonets ba Remember that you are the children of peasants 4 that you are the children of the Russian I people and that at the same time in the ther r villages where you were born your our own on i brothers who are remaining home are also agitating are also demanding land and liberty and that the government is send sending sending sendIng 1 ing other troops to shoot them Why will you jou ou defend the government Do you yourselves live so well Are not you vou yourselves in a state of servitude You are in a worse state of bondage than all the others You are given slavish employment as officers servants you are tormented In discipline battalions for every very free word you are sent to hard labor or shot We the representatives of the people wish to promulgate at laws F providing for a reduction of the tho term of military service to two years ears the aboU aboUt lion Ion t of soldiers employment as servants for tor the payment of a monthly wage to soldiers and the effective prevention of all insults to the rank and file by those placed over oyer them We wished to Improve tile the lot of the soldiers but the great aim before us was to improve the lot of the whole working population To prevent all this the government over ment hastened to dis Orders Are Illegal Sailors and seamen we the legally elected representatives of the peasants and workingmen declare to you ou that without parliament the government Is il II illegal illegal legal Orders which it may now issue have no legal force We Ve call on you Firstly to cease to obey obe the government and to actively oppose it in conjunction with us and the whole of the poor population You have taken an oath t tO defend the fatherland Stand beside us for land and liberty libert Secondly Second any an man who shoots at the people is a criminal a traitor and the enemy elem of the people We Ve inform all such In the name of their fathers and brothers that they wilt will not be allowed to return to their homes and that over their names will hang the eternal curse of the people Thirdly the government entered into negotiations with the Austrian and Ger German German German man emperors and German troops are ready leady to Invade our country to t defend the government which opposes the people with the power of foreign arms armsBy armsBy armsBy By such negotiations we declare the tile thel l government has betrayed betra ed the country andis and andis andIs is now outside the limits of the law Soldiers and sailors your sacred duty dut is to free the Russian people from the thet treacherous t government and defend par parliament parliament I lament Every man falling in this holy war will cover himself with eternal fame and the Russian people will wUl bless his I name In this struggle your our elected rep will be with you Be brave for the fatherland for the people and for forland forland forland land and liberty against the 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