RUSSIAN COALITION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 117, 17 May 1917, Page 6

RUSSIAN COALITION.

UNITING fiIVAL LEADERS. CONFIDENCE IN CABINET. ARMY WIIX OOHTIBrUE TO FIGHT. (Received 2.10 p.m.) PETROGRAD, May 10. M. Miliukoff. Foreign Minister, has resigned, and M. Tereschenko, hitherto Finance Minister. 7ias succeeded Jiim. M. Kerenskv, the Socialist Minister for Justice, succeeds M. Gutohkoil as Minister for War. Following are the three cardinal points on which the Government, the Executive Committee of the Duma, and the Committee of Soldiers and Workmen arc agreed: — First: Unity of the allied fronts. Second: Tine full confidence of the revolutionary democracy in the reconstructed Cabinet. Third: The plentitude of the Towers of the Government. — (Reuter.) A returned I'etrograd correspondent says that the Russian internal situation is bad. but not desperate. The military situation was worse before the revolution than to-day. The Army will continue to light the Austriatis and Germans. There is too much at stake in the west to permit them to strike a. blow on the Eant front. The Coalition Government may save the situation. — (United Service.)

AMERICAN MISSION. (Received 2.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON. May 16. The L'nited States has notified the Russian Government, in order to remove possible misunderstandings, that the American mission to Russia is interested in nothing but affording such assistance to tho Government and the Russian people as may be most helpful.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.