BETTER NEWS FROM RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3060, 23 April 1917, Page 5

BETTER NEWS FROM RUSSIA

MORE ACTIVITY AT THE FRONT

Rome, April 20. Adyicos from Petrograd state that activity has been resumed throughout the Eastern and Southern fronts. General Aloxieff roports that there is enthusiam evei-jnvhere for the continuation of the war. Work is being speeded up in all the Russian -military establishments, and the number of the ■•establishments has been increased.—Alis;A.Z; Cable Assn. SIGNIFICANT TELEORAH (Rec. April 22, 6.5 p.m.) '. r , ■ " Paris, April 20. beneral Alexieff has telegraphed to beneral Nivelh congratulating him on nis successes, and promising that the Russian army will soon -strike again.— Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . : INTERVIEW Wlilert! PREMIER ■■ _ ~ London, April 20. The "Daily Telegraph's" jPetrograd correspondent had an interview mth' the Russian Premier, Prince Lvoff, who stated: "We regard the future with complete confidence. The masses of the people support the Democratic principles which the Provisional Government defends. The great majority of the working classes in Petrograd are now labouring assiduously; the discipline of the army is gradually being fully re-established. Democratic Russia is too conscious of h&r mission not to defend the results she has obtained with all her soul. ' "W« know Rumania's sufferings, and have decided to do all that is possible to' assist her. The transport question is still being attended with difficulties. Under the old regime, only four wagons aday were sent to Rumania as pro-vision-for the army and civil population. We ire sending twenty-five wagons a day. After the war Rumania will be able to prevent Germany from again, ■dominating her economic and political life."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EXTREMISTS REPUDIATED (R«c. April 22, 5.5 p.in.) London, April 20. • The situation in Russia is developing most satisfactorily. There is little . doubt that the Austrian peace advances will he scornfully rejected. -They synchronised with the studied inactivity on the An sirian front, which the Russian generals willingly accepted, while the peasant soldiers returned! from their, villages, whence they rushed in large numbers after the revolution. ; The. , peasantry is repudiating the Petrogtad and Moscow extremists. Even the extremist.'newspapers are disowning the peace proposals. ■■;.'•■■■ The Government is desert-! era who return before May 14.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.