GERMANY'S ATTEMPTED INVASION OF RUSSIA.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 10 September 1917, Page 5

GERMANY'S ATTEMPTED INVASION OF RUSSIA.

j FEAR OF ADVANCE MENACING JETROGRAD, '"Pi 1 REMOVAL OP IMPORTANT INSTITUTIONS FORESHADOWED. (Australian and Renter.) Received September 9, at 5.5 p.m. '.; : ' I PETROGRAD, September 8. In view of flie possibility of the German invasion continuing beyoiui" the Riga sector, the Russian State Bank and artillery headquarters are being removed to Nijni Novgorod. .; : • , • (Renter's' Telegrams). '■'."'.''' Received September 9, at 5.5 p.m. ■■'.'.. . "' / AMSTERDAM, September 8. ~ General von Altcn has been appointed Governor of Riga. i ■ APPEAL TO FORCES OF DEMOCRACY TO UNITE. COMMON DANGER BRINGING RUSSIANS TO THEIR SENSES.' (Australian and Reuter). , Received September 9, at 5.5 p.in; T ■ •••'-■. r) LONDON, September.-8. A wireless Russian semi-official report says: The central Committee of the Council of Workmen's and Soldier's Delegates carried a resolution asserting that-the removal of internal 'clanger was .the vital question of every country and every democracy,,and urging the soldiers to redouble their efforts in; order to increase ( ~the. army's combative activity to secure the regeneration of economic life and the re-organisation of national defence. • ■'■■'' The Committee appealed to all Russian democratic forces to support the provisional Government. A special commission has drafted measures in connection with the Provisional Government's decision to introduce the death penally for the following offences: High treason, espionage, disobedience to military- orders, desertion, and surrender without defence. The death sentence applies td military and civilians a) ike.-

RIGOROUS EFFORTS TO CHECK ROYALIST PLOT,' DEPORTATION OF OLD REGIME NOTABLES ORDERED. t- ill iw»i»K . J (Router's Telegrams.) Received September 9, at 5,5 p.m. PETROGBAD, September 7. It is probable that those notables of the old regime who have been arrested in connection with the counter-revolution plot, and are now in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul will be deported. Included in the number arrested arc; General Gourko, Madame Veritbova (lady-in-waiting to the ex-Czarina, and a friend of Rasputin), several ex-Ministers, besides two Grand Dukes, but a feelu\~; t--:■:-:;■;■ that much more arbitrary steps than the Government 1..;.: hi;;.,: to i :er;,l,t,i to lake are essential before there will be any •v:j:::js t.:",vai.t;;.tabic conditions. . , . . .(Australian and Renter). „ ; ; PETROGBAD; September 7. . The object'of'the conspiracy'was to'arrest the Provisional Government and place the Grand Duke Michael on the throne. It is not intended to liberate the ex-Czar. Ilelsingfors reports that Russia is abolishing the Governor* Generalship ol 1 Finland. A Russian .committee will hereafter have charge of Finnish affairs.

GERMAN ADVANCE STRONGEST ON COASTLINE. RUSSIAN FLEET EEADY TO FIGHT ENEMY VESSELS. (Australian and New Zoalan.\ CauU Association and Heuter.) /' LONDON, September 7., A wireless Russian official message states: In the direction of Riga, near Zcgevold, there have been encounters between our rearguard and the enemy cavalry. Zeppelins bombed liainash, but without result. Submarines shelled points on the Riga coast and ' attacked our transports unsuccessfully. Our gunboats and torpedo boats remained at the mouth of the Dvina to the last moment, and convoyed steamers and floating defences from' Riga. Only enemy submarines appeared in the Gulf of Riga, where our ships remain ready to engage the enemy. A Petrograd despatch states that refugees from Riga have arrived, including the last trainload which dashed through before the ' Germans cut the railway. Hundreds of Russian civilians were captured. , A German official report'says: Our cavalry is successfully fighting the enemy rearguard eastward of Riga. The enemy set fire to the villages between Lobe Lake and Friedrichstadt. The ' booty captured includes 40 guns, 22 being of large calibre. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) ■ 9 _ PARIS, September 7. M.'Marcel Hutin, writing in the Echo de Paris, says: "Tin; Russian retirement is more accentuated eastward of Riga than to-" wards Friedrichstadt. The; Germans are endeavouring to cut of! communication with Esthonia, and become masters of the whole Baltic coastline'. ' ' 1 RUSSIAN TEMPER UNDERGOES . DRAMATIC CHANGE. j POSSIBILITY OF GERMAN MENACE UNITING QUARRELSOME FACTIONS. .

(Australian Mid New Zt-nlnnrl CaMe Association,; PETBOGRAD, September 7. The Socialist newspapers are now urging the whole nation to maintain the defence of the country. The workers' organs strenu- ' ously appeal to their supporters to rally and work their hardest and loyally submit to orders to save 'the country and safeguard ' the revolution. '.'■:.: ' • The-Government is placing the military district of Petrograd entirely in General KormM's hands, and has appointed a special Administrative Committee invested with full powers'to deal with all urgent matters and to be superior to all civil authorities. The /committee will devote its attention to the establishment', of order and the suppression of any counter-revolutionary agitation,