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Show SERIolTlNACE In State of Utter Disorganization Disorganiza-tion Transportation Will Cease If Not Improved. WORKERS ARE BLAMED Extreme Demands Play Important Im-portant Part in Railway Situation. MOSCOW, Aug 29. At tho third general sitting of J.he national conference confer-ence of railway representatives including includ-ing M. Froloff of the engineers' alliance, alli-ance, reported that there existed a state of utter disorganization of transportation trans-portation which unless Improved would cease completely by November. The representatives gave warning that tho consequences would bo terrible both at home and on the front and that tho army might turn on tho country and commit unexampled excesses. Tho extreme demands of the railway workers, the speakers said, played an important part in this disorganization. They called on all those engaged in the transport services to sacrifice personal per-sonal interests for those of the country. coun-try. M. Grusenberg, speaking as the representative rep-resentative of the Jews said that they loved their country, notwithstanding their unprecedented persecution under the old regime and had contributed greatly to the emancipation of the people peo-ple and the defense against the one-mj one-mj White Russia Loyal. Representatives, of Ukraine and of western, or White Russia, said the people were ready to mako any sacrifice sac-rifice for the good of the country. The spokesman for the Letts declared Cour-land Cour-land would never belong to Germany. Delegates representing the Mussulman alliance said all Mussulman citizens of Russia fully supported the provisional government. Goneral Grouzinoff, former military governor of Moscow, told the delegates tho chief problem was to save Russia from the enemy and that to this end It was necessary to re-establish army discipline by emanating politics, strengthening the authority of the leaders, limiting the power of soldiers' committees to economic functions and giving the commander-in-chief opportunity oppor-tunity to exercise unreserved author- iity. General Reviews Military Setbacks General Alexieff, former commander-in-chief, made a long address in which he recounted the history of the Russians' military setbacks and their causes. He drew contrasts between the army of the old regime, poorly equipped with mechanical resources but strong in war-like spirit and the present army well supplied with food and arms but completely poisoned and enfeebled by ill-interpreted and ill-applied doctrines which have been put forward, notably in the famous order of tho day. No. 1. Speaking of the committees olocled by the soldiers of the various units, General Alexieff said they were useful use-ful to the army from an economic standpoint but wore fatal to discipline of tho troops. None-the-less subversive subver-sive was the Influence of government commissaries whoso appointment he asserted created an extremely dangerous danger-ous duality of power. Officers Become Martyrs The general maintained that after publication by the government of the declaration of the rights of soldlerB, all respect toward leaders disappeared, the officers becoming veritable martyrs mar-tyrs and having to pay very dearly for the offensive of August 1 and tho subsequent sub-sequent retrea.t. The general cited some remarkable illustrations of this On one occasion, he aald, when an attack at-tack was being launched the force which advanced was made up of twenty-eight officers, twenty non-commissioned officers and two soldiers. All the others looked on coldly while these heroes perished. Tho general declared it would be Impossible to carry on tho war to a victorious conclusion unless the strongest possible efforts were made by tho provisional government and by the troops themselves to re-animato and regenerate tho army. oo . |