A NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3276, 26 June 1917, Page 4

A NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

THE CRISIS IS NOW PAST

A WORD ABOUT ROUMANIA

[BY Ef-ECTUIO TELEGUAIMJ—-OOPYKKIHT) # [PEU rUESH ASSOCIATION."j '" Paris, June SM. M. Albert Thomas, French Minister v' Munitions, iutcrviiMved on his rei.iiin froni Uussia, states that ho is iptimislic and confident about Russia. I'ho idea of a separate peace may be (nupk'tely dismissed. The duality of '.ho Government nnd the Council .of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates ■liis disappeared, anil the Coalition ■government's authority is increasing laily, especially in connection v ith ro-u-ganising tho army, which had negotiated a serious and critical time. The •locossit.v for a disciplined army in >rder to preserve the guarantee of iborty is now understood by the mass's, and there is a widely growing belief that tho military defence will be undo moro effective by an offensive. 'I found material and moral reasons for tho possibility of an offensive, although I shall not declare the date in which it will take place. The Roumanian army will do wonders immediately Russia gives the signal," added M." Thomas.