THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4504, 22 March 1917, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

NEW WAR SPIRIT AROUSED CHANGE OF CONSTITUTION AFTER THE WAR. SOMETHING TO FIGHT FOR AT HOME. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. , LONDON, March 20. The Morning Post’s Petrograd correspondent considers it unlikely that there will be any radical change in the Russian constitution during the war period. It will probably remain under judicially correct forms until a constituted; Assembly can be established.. This is impossible before victory. Thus Russian soldiers and sailors arij now fighting for something definite at home. The Germans will doubtless feel the weight of Russia’s new war spirit. The correspondent, however, points out the necessity for ttie Government suppressing certain forces of anarchy recently too prominent. The Petit Parisien’s Pctrograd coTrespondeint publishes the report of an interview with M. Miliulcoff. He said: Russia in a few hours has overthrown the tyrannical power which was incapable of securing the people’s food or organising the nation’s strength to vanquish the enemy, llhe provisional Government will use all energy to secure a speedy victory, immense problems are ahead, including complete political reconstruction. The Finnish newspaper Kaiku reports that a revolution occurred at Helsingfors on Friday. The military depose/d the police and 1 traffic was stopped. The soldiers on Saturday walked the streets carrying red flags and offered them to their officers. Many refusing to accept them were shot. Fourteen naval officers were killed. The m revolutionaries arrested tlhe governor and military commander at Fiborg. Many Finnish governors liave resigned. Despatches from Berlin intimate a growing restlessness, in Germany caused by the Russian revolution. Socialist newspapers are asking: •‘Shall all nations be free except Germany ?”

RUSSIAN ADMIRAL KILLED. Keuter’s Telegrams. (Received March zl, 5.5 p.m.) PICTROGRAD. March 21. Admiral Njeupon was killed at Helsingfors by his own marines during the revolutionary troubles. UNREST m GERMANY. WORKING-CLASS DEMONSTRATIONS. SERIOUS OUTBREAKS THREATENED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 21, 11.10 p.m.) ZURICH, March 21. A wireless message says the Russian revolution has created agitation in German working-class circles, culminating in riots. Several workshops in Leipzig are closed and serious demonstrations and strikes are reported. Troubles also occurred v.t Dresden and Munich. The authorities will take prompt measures to cope with the situation, and Landwchr regiments have been sent to Leipzig and working-class towns, where troubles are becoming acute.