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Show Moscow, Aug. 29. Dark clouds hovering again over Russia. Evory speaker at the extraordinary conference confer-ence here points with uncompromising uncompromis-ing frankness to the dangers that threaten from without tho within. Remedies galore aro suggested. However, at tho third sitting of the great congress there still seemed no other way out of tho tangle thanythe "Kornlloff way," that of the iron rod or the Cossack rawhide to whip tho old discipline back Into tho body and soul of a moblike army. But that way is opposed with bitter bit-ter stubbornness by uio workmen and soldiers' delegates, still numerically numeri-cally the most powerful body In Russia. Rus-sia. Tho masses continue to pin their hopes upon Kerensky, who, though threatening blood nnd Iron, Is constitutionally Incapable of actually actu-ally applying tho instrument of the defunct cazarlsm. Chasm Widens. The chasm has grown between these two sides. With every new meeting of tho conference It grows wider. Trouble has sprung up be? tween Kerensky and Kornlloff. Tho latter, backed by tho constitutional democrats, is determined to "go through" with his program. He reiterated re-iterated this Iron resolve today. At the same tlmb there was flung into the great assemblage a threat, which, if carried out, would bring on dlsastor, or that would plunge Russia Rus-sia Into tho abyss along the odgo of which tho country has been skidding skid-ding for five months. Tho greit brotherhood of railway mon through Its head, M. Orehoff, Issued nn ultl- ' mntum that It tho counter revolutionary revolution-ary movement Is not put down forthwith forth-with a country-wldo strlko will be declared. de-clared. Thoy conjuro up tho vision of Russia's transportation Bystom, already al-ready hopelessly crippled, being paralyzed para-lyzed completely, a vision of tho armies at tho front and tho people In tho cities starving not becauso thero 1b no food but becauso thero 1 no way to bring it to them. How menacing tho disorganization of tho transportation system already Is was told today by M. Froloff, one of tho leading railway representatives. representa-tives. Falling prompt Improvement, ho nald, November will see tho complete com-plete breakdown of tho system. Ho pictured tho possibility of an Infurl-1 ntod, starving nrmy moving upon tho cities to butcher their starving civilian civili-an brethren. Xiitlon Disintegrates. Shivers of nwo went through tho hiigo assemblago In tho opera houso when former Commander In Chief Aloxloff doscrlbud tho disintegration that has already gnawed Its wny through tho ranks of Russia's mil- lions. Awe-Btrlckon, tho delegates heard tho general descrlbo how forty-eight forty-eight officers and two soldiers were the only ones out of a regiment to obey the order to attack; how tho remainder, re-mainder, sullen and Immovably watched them dnBU into tho volcano of tho enemy's fire which cut the handful of attackers Into fragments. General Aloxleff told how the Utopian nrmy orders of tho socialist reglmo huvo undermined discipline and divided tho wholo army Into two CiVmps, officers and Boldlers. Tho only hoartonlng factor at th3 third Bitting of tho conference wa3 a series of loyalty pledges. Representatives Repre-sentatives of Russia's Jews, of the Ukrainians, Letts and Muzzulmen all declared that for thorn there is but ono love, that of Russia, but ono aim, that of saving Russia's freedom. m urn |