SOLDIERS MUST ABSTAIN
OR RUSSIA WILL GO DOWN IN A POOL OF ALCOHOL i
(Received May 31, 8.45 a.m.)
LONDON. 30th May.
: Mr. Shepherd, the United Press Agency's representative at Petrogv»d, states that from to-morrow soldier absentees will be punished as deserters.
M. Kerensky (Minister of Wa,r) has issued an order against the use of alcohol, saying that unless the soldiers abstained Russia will go down'in^» pool of alcohol, with the accompaniment of incendiarism and outrages.
AN EARLY OFFENSIVE EXPECTED
(BEUTEB'S TELEGRAM.) ..' . ■ (Received May 31, 8.45 a.m.) TOKIO, 30tK MSy,
Professor Bakmetoff, the new Bussiari Ambassador to the United States, has arrived, en route to Washington. He says he is immensely satisfied with the conditions in Russia, and thinks the new regime will soon be able to launch an offensive against the enemy. He repudiated the idea that Russia/Will make a separate peace. • (
GERMANS EXPECTING ATTACKS (AUSTRALIAN-NEW JJEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION AND REUTEH.) . ' . 'LONDON, 29th May, A German official report states : Military activity has increased on the Eastern front. Russian and Rumanian attacks are expected.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 129, 31 May 1917, Page 7
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