IN RUSSIA.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2313, 16 March 1914, Page 2

IN RUSSIA.

THE PRESS CAMPAIGN

Br KLECTHIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. London Times —fcydney Sun Services*. PER PREBB ASSOCIATION. (Received March 16, 8 a.m.) London, March 15. Eetch likens the anti-Russian outburst in Germany to the campaign against France which precluded the opening of the Morocco question. M. Saganoff, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, interviewed, insists that the increase in was initiated by Germany. St. Petersburg, March 15. Seventy-four persons who were arrested in connection with the Kieff disturbances will be charged at the coming sessions at Warsaw. The trial is expected to last three months, and a thousand witnesses will be called.

An inspired article in the Rossuja rebukes the mischievous attempts of foreign journalists to sow discord between Eussia and Germany. It reminds them of Germany's refusal to accept a limitation of armaments, and recommends them to abstain from unfriendly attacks and unjust aspersions. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. (Received Mar. 16, 9.25 a.m.) Budapest, March 15. Count Witte, in an interview, declared that Eussia was not aggressively disposed towards Germany, but French sentiments towards the latter always arouse doubt. He says the increase of armaments after the Balkan .War was remarkable. St. Petersburg, March 15. The Premier, the Ministers of War, Foreign Affairs, and Finance, and the Home Secretary are conferring with 65 members of the Duma, including the members of the Military and Naval Budget; Committees. The newspapers allege the conference is connected with the Eusso-German situation, ' and hint that the Minister of War: proposes a considerable increase in; the army.