THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3279, 29 June 1917, Page 2

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

SOME MORE SILVER LINING

ARE THEY LEARNING THEIR

LESSON?

[BY BLKCTBJO TJSLEGKArn OOL'YIUGHT] LAustralian-N.Z. Cablo Association.]

London, Juno 28

Tho Chronicle's ' Petrograd correspondent says civil war lm.s again 'been averted. The Leninites (pro-Gorman pacifists), seeking to revenge tlio humiliating defeat they suffered at the All-Russia Congress of Workmen's and Soldiers' Councils, spread alarmist rumours, raising cries of a .counter-revo-lution and that a. Cossack army was coming. Tlje Leninites called on the soldiers and workers to attend an armed demonstration against' the Government. The Congress discovered the plot, and strongly appealed to the workers and soldiers to refrain from such a demonstration. Tho Congress moved in motor lorries at 2 o'clock in tho morning to the Taurida Palace, for the sake of better telephoning facilities, and fiat uj> all night long maintaining contact with the Government, which arranged with the commander of the troops while Congress agents motored 1o the factories and barracks and persuaded the,workers and soldiers not to wreck the. revolution. They received a friendly reception and the danger passed. The crisis proved that the Socialists are rapidly learning the lesson of responsibility. SHUTTING OUT ENEMIES. Pctrogfcad, Juno 27. Suspicion was aroused by the return to Finland of 3(100 Finn .voluntoers from the- German Army. Their admission was prohibited, despite the protests of the Finnish Socialists. ANTI-GERMAN AUSTRIANS. Petrograd, June 28. Tho Nord Sud Agency says the inclusion of German units among the Czechs, lluthenians, and Poles, in order to keep them under pressure, resulted in many sanguinary quarrels between the Austrians and Germans.

Tho Russian artillery south of Brodv fired on the Austrians, who displayed a notice: "J)o not make the mistake of firing on us while a German battalion is hidden in a valley in our rear." The guns were then turned on the Germans, who fled.

The Anstrians at other points warned the Russians when Germans were relieving them in tho going to use gas. PEACE—AND THERE IS NO PEACE! New York, Juno 27.

The United Press correspondent at Petrograd states that the Workmen's and Soldiers' Congress decided to send delegates to Stockholm, England, and France, for the purpose of urging an early conference to discuss peace on the basis outlined at the Workmen's and Soldiers' Congress.

THE TRICK EXPOSED

Washington, Juno 37

A message to the State Department from Petrograd indicates that Prince Leopold of Bavaria- conspired with the Russian agitator, Lenine, to advocate a general i>eace without annexation and without contribution. The message states that Lenine delivered a speech to the Workmen's and Soldiers' Congress on June 22 favouring such peace, whereupon M. Kerensk.v announced that I ho. speech, in duplicate, had been intercepted by wireloss ! It was signed by Leopold of Bavaria.