THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17033, 18 June 1917, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM

REVOLUTION IN KRONSTADT. SANGUINARY FIGHTING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ni, T 1, T, PARIS, June 15. ii. s , tro £ ra d correspondent says that the revolution at Kronstadt has been sanguinary. Many old scores were wiped oix. ATTITUDE OF COSSACKS. INFLUENCE ON FUTURE EVENTS. COUNTRY'S NEEDS RECOGNISED. rp, -p. .. XT LONDON, June 15. i 1 P? News Petrograd correspondent advises that the Cossacks will probably exercise considerable influence on events. ' mu£ k bo remembered that they are landed proprietors, and therefore are opposed to radical land reform. A congress of Cossacks at Novotoherkask resolved to pursue the traditional path— namely, the country's salvation. " Russia not being yet fit for Socialism, we shall carry on the war to a victorious end." FINE EXAMPLE BY WOMEN. OFFER TO SERVE AT THE FRONT. SHIRKERS PUT TO SHAME. . PETROGRAD, June 15. •The Russian Women's Union has telegraphed M. Kerenskv offering its services to be used m some manner at the front by taking the places of the cowardlv shirkers The union adds that it is not deaf to the cries of its martyred sisters of Belgium, Serbia, and Poland. M. Thomas, the French .Ambassador, in the course of a newspaper interview said he has seen nothing to shake his confidence in Kussia, and that he was convinced the ana-rchists efforts would be crushed: SOCIALISTS DISTRUSTFUL. ALLIES' AIMS MISUNDERSTOOD. -n u ii. PETROGRAD, June 15. Despite the efforts of Mr Henderson, M. Thomas, and M. Vandervelde. the Russian Socialists persist in attributine Imperialistic aims to the Allies. This feelinsr has increased since the publication of the Anglo-French Notes. FIGHTING AT KIRSANOFF. EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED. Renter's Tolr prams. PETROGRAD, June 16. (Received June 17, at 5.5 p.m.) * m t t° wn , of Kirsanoff. in the province of lambov, has proclaimed itself an autonomous republic. A collision between partisans of the president and the Provisional Government resulted m eight people being killed, while arrested^ 616 wounded " The " president was Troops have been sent to Kirsanoff. HOPEFUL POSSIBILITIES. VIEWS OF AMERICAN JOURNALISTS.

Renter"e Tol^nrnms. /t, • J t NEW YOBK, Jnne 1,5. (Received June 17, at 5.5 p.m ) American journalists, on returning from Petrograd after a careful studv of the Russian situation, conclude that Russia, is capable of coming back with tremendous blows that will surprise the world.

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