IN RUSSIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3277, 27 June 1917, Page 4

IN RUSSIA.

TRAITORS TO BE TRIED

.CRIMINAL'S LETTER, FROM THE

CZARINA

Paris, April 9,

M. Claude Anet, telegraphing from Petrograd' to the Petit Parision, says: ... ...

"Tho following information in given concerning the charges made against former Ministers. The first case investigated will be that of M. Soukhomlinolf, then that of M. GhelovitotT, and afterwards that of M. Doprovolski. The latter an ox-Minis-ter of Justice, is. with others, accused of having received a present from a certain M. Naiihinioff. a very rich man, who by means of forgeries had procured an important petroleum concession. M. Doprovolski is alleged to have set Nakhimoff at liberty in return for money.

Rasputin, the Monk, had used his influence in favour of Nakhimotf. in whose dossier a letter even from the Emi>ress had been found."

RUSSIAN GENERALS REMOVED

Petrograd, April 9

The Minister of War, having received detailed reports in 'regard te tho recent unfortunate local defeat on tlio Stokhod river, has ordered the immediate removal front their commands °f General Lech, who was in command of the army in that region, and General Jatiouohevski. the army corps commander concerned.

''PRINCE ROMANOFF.''

Geneva, April 9

Tlio Oeiiiinii and Austrian reports that the Czar lias requested tlie Provisional Government's permission to res id o in future in Switzerland with his family seem to have some foundation. It is stated that the Czar will employ the name "Prince Romanoff," and will not mix himself with Russian politics. It is possible that the request will be granted. (The CV.ar and Czarina are prisoners", in Petrograd, under tho control of the Provisional Government of Russia.) WARSAW HOSTILE TO GERMANY. Prince Leopold of Bavaria, interviewed in Munich by the Mnnchner Nenesto Nnchrichten, says that the Poles refuse to regard the Germans •is their deliverers. Warsaw is like a hostilec ity.—Central News.