CONSUL WALKS OUT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1088, 14 February 1918, Page 3

CONSUL WALKS OUT.

I.W.W. WELCOMES SUCCESSOR.

THINGS THAT MAY COME TO PAHS

MELBOURNE, Feb. 2.

Mr A. X. d'A baza is no longer Uon.-nl-Genoral for Russia in Australia. Mr d'Abaz-t 11: - not resigned, and he has not been dismissed, for in the fanner Empire of the Great White Czar there i~: .now no Government lo whom he would resign, and none from whom he would take dism.i>;d. Ho received his salary in advance up to January 27, and on that date he walked out n? tho Consulate and fumed the key m the door Mr d'Abaza pulled up at Mciizie*' Hotel where he has been established hi'hco.

Mr Simar.off, his suectv.s:Oi ; , is a Queensland resident. He may move to Melbourne lo occupy the vacant chair. He "ill not, however.' bo recognised by the Federal Government till the Imperial authorities give instructions for such a course. . The new Consul i„ little known to the ordinary citizen ; but he has a bis? following ainon'g those organisations which m an extended form have brought Russia to its present condition. Many of tho I.W.W. are delighted with tho appointment. Somewhere in New South Wales there is a, Russian I.W.W.vinau doing a long verm for fife-raisin*. The I.W.W. bar; often challenged the justice of the sentence, and now, with tho eye of prophecy, they sec M. SimonolT making l-cprcspntAtioiw to Mr Hughes "on behalf of the Russian Republic.' 7 And by all accounts this-may come to pass.