ANTI-ANNEXATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 7

ANTI-ANNEXATION

RUSSIAN SOLDIERS' AND WORKMEN'S ■ RESOLUTIONS APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE (Rec. 'April 17, 3.5 p.m.) London, April 16. _ The General Congress of the Council of' Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates from all parts of Russia, adopted a resolution appealing to the democracy to support Use Provisional Government as long as it continues to consolidate and develop the gains of tho revolution,' and does not base its foreign policy on aspirations of territorial expansion.—Router. ■. [In au interview which the Petrograd correspondent of the ".Daily Telegraph/' had with M. Miliuko'ff, Russian Foreign Minister, the.latter said: "It is truo some Socialists denounoo a war of annexation, but their manifesto adds: 'If Russia is attacked we must defend her to the last drop of. our blood.' 1 have not the slightest doubt that' Russia desires to continue the war until her enemy is definitely defeated. I admit that'the situation is serious, but the Government is surely re-estab-lishing order, and Russia will soon put forth her maximum effort. Russia is ■ not waging an aggressive war, but she cannot stop until she has annihilated Prussia's dream of a European hegemony. It is Russia's resolve to fulfil her obligations to her Allies."] GENERAL KURMIN iRRESTID WITH FOUR OTHER GENERALS.(Rec. 'April 17, 3.5 p.m.) Petrograd, April'l6. General Kuropatkin, Governor-Gen-eral of Turkestan, and four other Generals, have been arrested at Taskken by order of the local branch of the. Couucil of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, on a charge of distributing arms to Russians for defence iii the. event of an attack by natives. General.Kuropatkin has telegraphed to tho Premier (Prince Lvoff), asking for the command of the Grenadier Corps.at tho front.—Router.