INTERNAL DISORGANISATION IN RUSSIA

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 30938, 23 July 1917, Page 6

INTERNAL DISORGANISATION IN RUSSIA

\ r : ; 'T*%JREJ;OF KIEF ARSENAL, •| 7 ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF M. KERENSKY. ' ; RESIGNATION OF MINISTER OF' JUSTICE.' t ' 1 ;. . • li ' ,-a , , ; j « (Router's Tclcgrams.l , PETROGRAD, July 20, Five thousand Ukraine soldiers seized Kief Arsenal, but in eonsequence of prompt Government measures' have now evacuated the* building and order lias been restored. PETROGRAD, July 20. The Minister for Justice. M. Pclvcnoft' has resigned. i Australian snU 'lew Zcalaud liable Association.; PETROGRAD, July 20. . An attempt to assassimtle M. Kerensky failed, T _ (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association,) •PETROGRAD, July 20. M. Lenin lias fled. Penkratoff, a Socialist revolutionary,' who spent fourteen years in the Sclilussellburg convict prison, and Aloxiiisky, a work-ing-class member of the Second Duma, in a manifesto, declare that since the 29th May the' War Office was aware of the propeace agitation in Russia by means of German-money. Officers of the German General Staff told an officer of- a.Siberian regiment that they were deputed to agitate the Russian bear, and that this agitation ivns carried on by the President of the Ukrainian Alliance for the emancipation of Ukraine, and. by Lenin. ' The crowd on Wednesday pillaged the offices of the Leninist organ Pravda. Subsequently M, Tolontscff ordered the soldiers to occupy the Pravda office.' The Provisional Government has disconnected all telephones in Leninist officers' 'dwellings.'throughout Kronstadt. (Austialinn ant 1 . Sew Zealand Or.'ule Association,) Received July 22, at 5.5 p.m. ' PETROGRAD, July 20. There have been feeble anti-Government demonstrations at Moscow, and Kieff, which were suppressed by the local Workmen ami Soldiers'.Delegates. STREET DEMONSTRATIONS AT MOSCOW. MINERS STRIKE FOR MORE Fiml) AND CLOTHING. (Australian and Renter). Received July 22, at 5.5 p.m. ZURICH, July 20. There have been .street demons!rations at Warsaw, protesting against Gera ( an arbitrariness, which resulted in the military firing on iiie crowd, . ... ".'. .: . .." '■ " ° The coalmine at owing to insuiliciency of food and clothing. A number .of Polish legionaries have been interna'because.they refused to take the. ontlu of iillcgiancc to the lufhrc "Kmg' 0 f Poland and to Hie German"; iiml Austrian Allies. •• - i AUTONOMY OF FINLAND DIET OPPOSED TO SUBMITTING PROPOSALS TO PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. "".'7 -■•t •• • ■ ..„,~ ! '-Tirr*22*WT .- (Australian and Renter). . • • Received July 22, at-5.5 p.m. • .'.:'. "~\j/ PETROGRAD, July 20. /' Th Finnish Diet passed a Bill for the autonomy of Finl/nd, rejecting an amendment lliat the Bill should first be s'libinitied to tile Provisional Government, REVOLT AT HELSINGFORS. i ' *- ' , MILITARY OFFICERS ASSASSINATED.

(Australian and New Zealand Cable ASBtyttot-lOQ.) ■Received July 22, at s.f> p.m. . COPENHAGEN, July 20. ; ' There lias been a military .revolt at Belsingfors (in Finland). Several officers have been assassinated.'?'' i FURTHER MINISTERIAL CHANGES. M. KERENSKY BECOMES PRIME MINISTER. if •. • ' -■- ••• , - •// (AustiMlian and Renter.) Received July 22, at l].f>jj.iii. / PETKOORAI), July 21. Prince Lvoff, the Pi/nic Minister, lias resigned. M. Kerensky.becoiulis Premier, temporarily retaining his position as Miiiister for MinisteM'or Marine. • M. Tierete'lli been appointed Minister "of'the'lnterior, retaining tin; portfolios of Posts and Telegraphs. M. Nekrossttjr who ,was provisionally appointed Minister of Justice and Minisff'r of Railways/lias also resigned.