COALITION GOVERNMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, 18 May 1917, Page 5

COALITION GOVERNMENT

A■" FORECAST. '• (.Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. May 18J 9.15 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, May 17. A forecast, of the Russian JCoalition Government is : Prince Lvoff, Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. M. Miliukoff, Foreign Minister. 1 M. Revenski, War Minister. M. iShingoreff, Finance Minister. Either M. Skobeleff, Vice-President of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council, or Admiral Kolichak, commanding the Black Sea Fleet, will be appointed .to the Navy. ' . . . Socialists have been appointed to almost al lother portfolios. COALITION ; GOVERNMENT. AN AGREEMENT REACHED'. IMPROVED OUTLOOK ON RIGA •'.'" FRONT. (Rec. May 18,-2.5 p.m.) PETROGRAP, May 17. After all-day'negotiations 'an agreement, was ,reacfied'between the - delegates and the Government/under which three Democratic ' and three' Nationalist *" Socialists ejiter the Cabinet.' ''" ' '■• ' ' ' Generals Alexieff, Dra'gomskofF, and Gourko are coming to Petrograd to confer on the military situatiori.' ' The Northeud Agency repo^ts , that an the .Riga front, in spite of . German threats to overwhelm it with•■ asphyxiating gas, tKe Russian" regiments are refusing to j fraternise.. Everywhere-they resolutely discontinued friendly meetings with the enemy. " " " ' ' The disappointed Germans loosed intense rifle and artillery fire. M. MIDIUKOFF'S RESIGNATION. ' WHY HE RESIGNED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.; PETROGRAD, May 16; The immediate cause of M. Miliukoff's resignation was a difference of views between himself and the Provisional Government on the question of the reorganisation of the Cabinet.