Only a small and apparently uninfluential portion, grouped round the organ _Volja Naroda_, faces the bourgeois Press with unconditional demands for an offensive to relieve the Allies, as does the Plechanow group.
Kerenski's party, the Trudoviks, as also the related People's Socialists, represented in the Cabinet by the Minister of Food, Peschechonow, are still undecided whether to follow Kerenski here or not.

Verbal information, and utterances in the Russian Press, as, for instance, the _Retch_, assert that Kerenski's health gives grounds for fearing a fatal catastrophe in a short time.

The official organ of the Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies' Council, the _Isvestia_, on the other hand, frequently asserts with great emphasis that an offensive must unquestionably be made.

It is characteristic that a speech made by the Minister of Agriculture, Tschernow, to the Peasants' Congress, was interpreted as meaning that he was opposed to the offensive, so that he was obliged to justify himself to his colleagues in the Ministry and deny that such had been his meaning.
While, then, people at home are seriously divided on the question of an offensive, the men at the front appear but little inclined to undertake any offensive.

This is stated by all parties in the Russian Press, the symptoms being regarded either with satisfaction or with regret.