RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16499, 27 March 1917, Page 6

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

A .VICIOUS .MANIFESTO. SOLDIERS URGED TO DESERT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 1.35 a.m.) PETROGRAD, March 26 The K>cial Democratic Party, through the newspaper Pravda, has published a resolution by the Central Committeo inciting soldiers to leave the trenches and go over to the enemy, asserting that this ' will immediately evoke- a fraternal re sponse on the part of the Germans, and that the war among- tho nations will promptly collapse, enabling the army and ' the people to devote themselves to : the /final overthrow of the ruling classes. Only ' the presence of M; Kerinsky in the Provisional; Government has thus far pre-j : vented an open rupture. The Moderate ' Party is obliged to make endless ' concessions to unreasonable demands.'/ The theorists' mania for forming committees, which was ono of the worst features of the bureaucratic regime, 7 is terribly ham- ' pering tho reform party. ..T// /•/ The press devotes much space to the -'details : of a treason case with which it ;is . alleged -M. Sukholmlirioff,7' ex-Minister for War,; is connected. :;.-" M. Miasoedoff, - r who organised the whole; traitrous spying / ; system,, was -on •; intimate terms /with/M, / Sukholrqlinos. : ' Hi} was mixed up with the i : latter's divorce and. second marriage. M. Sukholmlinoff would have been brought to trial long ago,.but the ex-Empress interevened 7 owing .to - the tearful protestations fof M. Sukholminoff's wife. ? '