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Show m mm mam Committee of Five, Formed at Oufa Conference, Undertakes Task. Body Recognized by All Provisional Councils Opposing Op-posing Bolsheviki. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. Out of the chaos which has existed in Eussia since the overthrow of the Kerensky governmnt by the Bolsheviki there is emerging a 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 Eus-sian Eus-sian embassy today that the paitus-sian paitus-sian conference at Oufa, European Eussia, Eus-sia, which has been recognized by all the provisional governments opposing the Bolsheviki, including the Siberian government, has constituted a committee commit-tee of five as the lawful authority for all Eussia. This committee will be responsible re-sponsible to the constituent assembly of all Russia, which will convene next January 1, provided 250 members attend. at-tend. The committee of five set up as the sovereign authority is composed of M. Tschaicovsky, of the government of the north at Archangel; M. Vologodsky, head of the western Siberian government; govern-ment; M. Astor, former mayor of Moscow Mos-cow and member of the Constitutional Democratic party; Lieutenant General Boldireff, one of the foremost experts of Eussia, and M. Avksentieff. Hope Held Out. The dispatch to the Kusyian embassy telling of the results of the pan-Russian conference, 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 Russia are being delivered from the yoke of Bol?hevikism, the temporary organs of legal authority are reconstituting and uniting themselves. On the territory of European Russia they are concentrating concentrat-ing under the authority of a committee of members of the constituent assembly assem-bly of all Russia, while in Siberia they are rallying und'T the provisional government gov-ernment ot Siberia. "The committee of the members of the constituent assembly of all Russia consists of all the members of the constituent con-stituent assembly which have gathered in Samara, except those belonging to the factions of the Bolsheviki and of the social revolutionists of the left, members mem-bers of such factions being considered a3 having renounced their titles of constituent members and therefore having lost their right to join the committee. com-mittee. "Tho committee of the members of the constituent assembly unites political politi-cal parties which: 1. Remain loyal to the aJlies. 2. Reject any idea of separate sepa-rate peace. 3. Io not recognize the trcatv of Brest-Litovsk. 4. Have decided de-cided to continue the war against the Bolsheviki and Germans in alliance with the O.echo-Plovaks. To Unite Nation. "The committee of the members of the constituent assembly, in its aim to create a united and powerful government, govern-ment, represents itself as the source of authority, and considers itself as successor suc-cessor to the late provisional government govern-ment of nil Russia. "Being deprived until .latelv of means of communicating with institutions institu-tions abrnnd, the committee was not able to inform in time the governments of western Europe and of the rnst and America of its formation and of the development de-velopment of events in Russia. "It ia at Oufa that takes place at present a 'state conference, ' constituted: consti-tuted: "Of members of the conntituont assembly. as-sembly. "Of delegates of organs of provincial authorities and of the Siberian government. govern-ment. "Of representatives of the social revolutionists and of social democratic parties. "Of delegates of the 'union of liberty lib-erty of the people,' and of the group of renaissance. ' "The state conference 1ms set as its aim to create a united government to represent tho lawful authority for all I(utsia. "Tlic result of tho conference has attained at-tained success. "The sovereign authority is vested i n a body of five persons responsible to the constituent assembly of nil Uns-sia, Uns-sia, tho convocation of which is deferred de-ferred to the first of .Tnnunry, 1010, on condition that. 2"0 members will be present. ' ' Great Army Formed. A dispatch to the Russian embassv today f rom M. tioiovatehef f, assistant assist-ant minister of foreign affairs of the Omsk government, said that nn armv of more than 'JUO.flDO men hnd been formed in Siberia by conscription, and that there wero .10,000 officers available there to train and load it. The armv is being organized on the basis of strict military discipline, it. was said, and will constituto an increasingly powerful force to cn-operate with the allied and (Czecho slovak forces in Siberia. With tho snfo arrival of Consul General Gen-eral Toole nt Stockholm from Moscow, additional information concerning conditions con-ditions in central Russia have reached the state department. The massacre of Russian eiti.ons in Moscow was continuing contin-uing September H, with about lfiO executions exe-cutions nightly. More than 1000 persons per-sons hnd been shot in retaliation for tho attnmpt to kill Eetune, the Bolsheviki Bolshe-viki premier. Pctrograd Cowed. Information alo hrts reached tli1 state department that on September 1" tho most violent elements of the Bolsheviki Bolshe-viki wero in control in Pctrograd, ami were carrying out, a cold blooded terror. It was reported that 1700 persons, mostly most-ly former officers, were bei ng hold as hostages for the lives of the Bolsheviki commissars. Tho population was said to ho utterly cowed. h an order from Moscow, the information infor-mation said, forty-Mix Englishmen were imprisoned early this month on pretense pre-tense that they had to do will) tho kill iug of UrjLslUyi head uf the tjuvicj jumu mittee for the suppression of tho counter-revolution. There also wero twentv odit French eti:fiis in the same prison. It is stated th?it prison conditions for Russians and allied citizens could not bo worse. Tho prisoners are crowded in groups of fifteen to twenty in small and very damp cells. Fifty-four Oeeho-Slnvs wero crp-tur?d crp-tur?d while pndittvorin to make their way to the allied armies in the north. About tho IMh of September these were discovered in nn out -of t he w a v prison. They were starving to death. 'Twentv nine aro still in prison in a serious condition, con-dition, while fifteen were remove, 1 to a hospital in a dyiny condition. Ueliof work for the prisoners ha" been orpani.ed in the name of the international in-ternational Ked fross chiefly on the iuitiatixo of the American Ued Cross. |
