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Show TEUTONS END TRUCE WITH FOE JN EAST AIRPLANES DROP LEAFLETS IN RUSSIA THANKING RUSSIANS FOR PERIOD OF REST. Claim is Made That Object Has Been Accomplished and That Germans Will Not Turn Their Attention to Punishing Russians. Petrograd. Along the Russian northern front south of Smorgon German Ger-man airplanes have dropped leaflets which read: "Thanks for the long rest, during which fraternization enabled us to transfer troops to the western front to hold up the attack of the English and French. Now enough are transferred, we are going to fight and will fire on fraternizers." A resolution has been adopted- by a faction in the soldiers' and workmen's congress calling for the dissolution of the duma and the council of the empire. em-pire. The action is based on the ground that in the early days of the revolution revolu-tion a group of duma members took advantage of their parliamentary position po-sition to become the center of a tumult which was antidemocratic. Declaring that the United States was going to fight until the world was made safe for democracy, Elihu Root, head of the American mission, made his first public appearance here June 22. Mr. Root spoke to a large and enthusiastic Russian audience gathered gath-ered under the auspices of the Russian-American eommittee for industrial indus-trial and economic rapprochement recently re-cently organized. Several speeches voicing the appreciation of the coming of the American mission were made by members of the society. Chief of these was that of N. A. Pokrovsky, president of the organization, who introduced Mr. Root. |