Photograph by George H. Mewes, courtesy of London Daily Mirror 

 WATCHING THE GERMANS FROM AN OBSERVATION POSITION 



The General of Division thinks he has located a battery of 12-inch Skoda howitzers and has 



asked his aide to have a look 



the Provisional Government. What I 

 have lived through during those days of 

 grandeur! I have always fulfilled my 

 duty, and if I have done what I have 

 done, it was only because I knew that 

 the Russian people is a great people ; that 

 the Russian democracy is a great democ- 

 racy. I am here as her tool, and by rea- 

 son of this I am happy. I act because of 

 my faith in the people and democracy. 

 I step firmly along a great wide road be- 

 cause I well know the workingmen, the 

 peasantry, and the whole people. 



"I am here in the name of the Pro- 

 visional Government, which came into 

 being and assumed the great govern- 

 mental powers, called forth by the people 



and the Duma. I come here bearing 

 greetings. I came here to let it be known 

 that we are placing ourselves at the dis- 

 posal of the entire nation, and that we 

 will fulfill the will of the people to the 

 very end, up to the time of the assem- 

 bling of the Constitutional Assembly. I 

 came here to ask of you, Shall we go to 

 the very end?" 



DOES NOT WANT TO BE THE MARAT OE THE 

 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 



At one of the numerous mass meetings 

 held in Moscow in Kerensky's honor he 

 was asked about the fate of the Russian 

 dynasty. In reply the youthful minister 

 said: 



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