THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3276, 26 June 1917, Page 2

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

INSISTENCE OF ANARCHISTS

GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE

WOMEN TO THE FRONT!

Br EUECTBIG fELEGBAI'H.—COFXIUGHT. !_Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.]

London, Juno 24. The Morning Post's Potrograd correspondent, in a despatch dated the 22ud inst., says: Things are steadily going from bad to worse. The Leninites (pacifists) denounce the Coalition Government as useless, and demand a wholly Socialist Ministry. To outsiders, it seems that tho Government, by following the Tolstoyan )>olicy of nonresistance to evil, is establishing class warfare throughout Russia. The situation is undoubtedly serious. A Minister has* correctly described Russia as a patient in a high fever. It depends on the'toughness of the country's constitution as to whether it survives or not. , The'anarcliisU who have taken General Durnovo's home continue to refuse to evacuate the villa, and threaten to blow it up if tho Fovcrninent attempts t-o expel hem. The marvellous "atience of the great mass of the Russian people alone makes it possible for the country to weather the storm. Ifc is noteworthy, despite the universal demand for land nationalisation and the expropriation of all private lands, that the- Jews are rapidly buying land throughout Russia. The idea of energetic State interference is coming to the foreground ns til;. , only solution of the industrial crVs.

Tho b'ittal : on of women soldiers ts."y to the front in n fortnight, as an object lesson to the peaceinongers. Most of the recruits are women and girls of the educated classes. These Amazonian Battalions of Death have issued an appeal to the nation recalling tin: fact that every day the enemy is idle costs Russia £5,000,000. The appeal describes the pacifists as Judases. selling Russja to the foe. and ndds: "They will soon learn that it is better to face ten German bayonets than one tigress mother of Russia. You make a war without annexations I ai>d contributions, and vet expect a tribute, from your own native towns; i but until yon make your bayonets j overturn Wilhelm's throne, you will remain cowards and traitors." SIGNS OF FURTHER DISORDERS. (Received Juno 26, 9.40 a.m.) London, June 25. The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily News states that food is costing five times more now than during peace times. There are the clearest possible signs of a famine later in the year. Jiven more serious, however, is the threat of an almost total stoppage of industry, due to the shortage of fuel and material. Yet tho workmen aro continually demanding enormous increases in wages. There was also gravo danger of a big railway strike, which the Government manifesto luckily averted. The Cossack army is displaying great distrust of tho extremists and a desire for stability in the country. This is of great importance, tho temporary Government being confident that the Cossacks will support the work of creating a strong united State.