CROWD LEAVING PETROGRAD FOR "ANYWHERE."

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 11 September 1917, Page 5

CROWD LEAVING PETROGRAD FOR "ANYWHERE."

RUSSIA 'FEARFUL- OF GERMANY'S DESIGNS' ON " ' FINLAND... (Australian and New Zealknd CaMc Association.); •; Received September 10, at 7.0 I LONDON, September 9. , Tin; Pctrograd correspondent of The Daily Chronicle states * that crowds arc waiting in the rain at the railway stations eager • 1 to depart anywhere, owing to the alarming rumours. The Government is encouraging, the departures, and has ap- ' pointed a committee to determine the menas to despatch half a million of people. The crrent of the Grand Duke is causing dissension in the Cab- ! t. rorcir;' y h recused of acting precipitately as the,plot . • i;; ;u: cv.hy-iv.■! Some accused M, Kjorijiisky- of partici!;.c .i. n-fhe f'cvorr.m'ent.'is' fearful of the of the fall of Kiga upon Finland. Jt is affirmed in some.German inilitary circles, that the real object of the German offensive is ,'to establish direct communication with Helsingfors and then turn I' inland into a second Poland, using the Finnish' Legions to light Russia, under the • promise of the creation of an independent i inland. The Russian Provisional Government has adopted stringent press regulations. M. Kerensky has prohibited the publication of The Maximi- j list, and two other counter-revolutionary papers.. The military censor has decided that papers must.publish only official war telegrams.