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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16561, 9 June 1917, Page 8

KROPOTKIN RETURNS. ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME. (Heed. 12.10 a.m.) COPENHAGEN. Juno 8. Prince Peter Kropotkin has arrived at Bergen from England, en route to Russia, to which he is returning at the invitation o'i the Council of Workmen and Soldiers Delegates. A great welcome has been arranged. The Minister for War, M. Kerenskv, received Prince Kropotkin at the iron tier.

Prince Kropotkin has been an exile from Russia since 1876, and during the greater part of the period has been resident in England. He has a world-wide reputation a* an authority on Russian affaire and on geographical questions, on which he has published many books. He is 75 years old.

EXPLOSION AT PETROGRAD

MUNITIONS DESTROYED.

(Seed. 9.15 p.m.) COPENHAGEN. June 8.

A great explosion occurred accidentally in Petrograd. A large quantity of explosives which had just arrived from England and were stored in the harbour, were blown up. Many people were killed.

KRONSTADT REVOLT ENDED

GOVERNMENT RECOGNISED. A. and N.Z. Cable. PETROGRAD. June 7.

The revolt of sailors at Kronstadt, the island guarding Petrograd from the west, has been ended. The sailors agreed to recognise the Provisional Government.

STRENGTHENING THE ARMY

ALEXIEFF'S ENDEAVOURS. A and N.Z. Cable. PETROGRAD, June 7.

I General Alexieff, Military Adviser to the ! Russian Government, in an interview, said ! he had done everything possible to strengthen the army. He prayed God to 'save Russia. While order and discipline J reigned in the army, Russia would continue to exist.

THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL.

PEACE WITH LIBERTY.

A. and N.Z. Cable, NEW YORK, June 7. The Petrograd correspondent of the United Press Association interviewed M. Tscheidze. president of the 'Council of I Workmen and Soldiers Delegates, who eaid I Democrats could best help Russia and the

democratization of the world by bringing pressure to bear to end the war at the earliest possible moment. If America could exert her best pressure by fighting Germany, let America send armies. Russians looked upon everything in the world from the viewpoint of the revolution, and the success of the revolution depended on the war soon ending on a basis of peace with no annexations and no indemnities, with liberty to small peoples to voice their opinions as to their political alliances.

RUSSIA'S CHIEF DANGER.

COUNTER REVOLUTIONARIES. A. »nd N.Z. Cable. PETBOGRAD, June 7.

General Gutor, the youngest general in the Russian army, succeeds General Brusilofi on the south-west front. The chief dangers now are not in the army, but in the remote rural districts, where many clergy are fomenting a counter revolutionary movement, saying that the revolution was born of Satan. Many agitators accuse the Provisional Government of desiring to shut the churches and destroy the ikons. The anarchists are urging the peasants to seize the lands and cut down the forests.