POINTS OF AGREEMENT
OUTLOOK MORE HOPEFUL. (Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.) (Rec. May 17, 1.5 p.m.) PETROGRAD, May 16. M. Miliukoff has resigned. M. Terescheuko, hitherto Finance Minister, succeeds him. M. Kerensky succeeds M. Gutchkoff. The following are three cardinal points on which the Government Executive Committee of the Duma and the Committee of Soldiers' and Workmen's delegates are agreed : —Firstly, the unity of the Allied fronts; secondly, full confidence in revolutionary democracy and in the re-constructed Cabinet; thirdly, plenitude powers for the Government. LONDON, May 16. A returned Petrograd correspondent says that the Russian internal situation is bad, but not desperate. The military situations was worse before the_ revolution than to-day. The army will continue to fight the Austro-Germans. Too much is at stake in the West to permit the Germans to strike a blow on the East front. The Coalition Government may save the situation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 17 May 1917, Page 5
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