tings at the front, the
French and English Socialists were given the following reply:

"Tell your comrades that we await definite declarations from your
Governments and peoples renouncing conquest and indemnities. We
will shed no drop of blood for Imperialists, whether they be
Russians, Germans or English. We await the speediest agreement
between the workers of all countries for the termination of the
war, which is a thing shameful in itself, and will, if continued,
prove disastrous to the Russian Revolution. We will not conclude
any separate peace, but tell your people to let us know their aims
as soon as possible."

According to the report, the French Socialists were altogether
converted to this point of view. This also appears to be the case,
from the statements with regard to the attitude of Cachin and
Moutet at the French Socialist Congress. The English, on the other
hand, were immovable, with the exception of Sanders, who inclined
somewhat toward the Russian point of view.

Private information reaching the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
this country states that shots were fired at M. Thomas, the
Minister of Munitions, in the course of one of his war speeches at
the Russian front.

The disorganisation at the front is described by an officer or
soldier at the front in the same organ, the _Rabocaja Gazeta_ for
May 26, as follows:

"The passionate desire for peace, peace of whatever kind, aye,
even a peace costing the loss of ten governments (i.e. districts),
is growing ever more plainly evident. Men dream of it
passionately, even though it is not yet spoken of at meetings and
in revolutions, even though all conscious elements of the army
fight against this party that long for peace." And to paralyse
this, there can be but one way: let the soldiers see the democracy
fighting emphatically for peace and the end of the war.

The Pan-Russian Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Delegates'
Councils and the Army Organisation at the front in St. Petersburg
June 1-14 took for its first point in the order of the day the
following: "The War, questions of defence and the struggle for
peace." At this time the Government would doubtless have to give a
declaration with regard to the answer already received at the
beginning of June from the Allies as to their war aims. This
congress will also probably decide definitely upon the nomination
for the