RUSSIAN CRISIS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9694, 23 June 1917, Page 8

RUSSIAN CRISIS

WSR EVERYWHERE UNPOPULAR PEASANTS DECLARE IT IS TIME THE SLAUGHTER. ENDED. '3y Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian ami K r Z. Cable Association. LONDON, Juno 21.

The ‘'Daily Mail's’ correspondent at IVtrog.-ml, who has returned alter a Uirco weeks’ visit to the interior, states ;hat. ahnoiigb tile people do not desire u so para to peace, war is everywhere unpopular. Thu peasants declare ■iliac, tlm war must' end riuickly, their attitude being that they have eked too much blood, and it is timo the slaughter ended.

i lie eouclitions in tta towns and country diffey. Government C’ommissiu.iers numiilall.v rule m the towns, nnd actually share power with the soiuiers, substituting persuasion for the former brutal regime. ,

In the country, the peasants' have elected Local 'Management Committees, which are practically powerless, tho peasants settling things themselves, 'They have seized lands, and tho majority favour seizing farmhouses. They w ill only obey tho decrees of Parliament if thev coincide with their detares. Robberies and arson tiro froquent. All the trains are crowded with soldiers, coining or going to the front.

WORXMEN-SCLDIEBS’ CONGRESS

VOTE FOR IMMEDIATE RUSSIAN offensive.

-By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK. June 21. A message fiom Potrograd states that' tho All-Russia Workmen's and Soldiers’ Congress unanimously voted for an immediate Russian offensive.

MARSHY IN WESTERN SIBERIA

MURDERS RT AMNESTIED CRIMINALS. £y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Renter's Telegram*. PEITBOGRAD, June 21. Martial law has boon proclaimed in Tomsk (in Western Siberia), owing to -wholesale murders and robberies by amnestied criminals who have been called to the colours and anarchists. The authorities bare arrested 2300, and •twenty who resisted were killed, and » number wounded.

RAILWAY STRIKES

GOVERNMENT URGES PEOPLE TO REMAIN CALM. £y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright P.anter's Telegram*. (Received June 22. 6.30 p.m.) PETKOGRAI), June 21. Th?> railwaymen on. the, PetrogradMoscow railway have struck without KTiitinc for the award of the Commission which is considering their economic grievances. The Government has appealed to the people to remain calm, in view of a possible extension of the strike.

STIRRING MANIFESTOES

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (Received June 22, 5.5 p.m.) FETBOG.RAD. June 21. The Union of Women and Volunteers l,i a manifesto to the people and workers appeals to them to struggle against the enemy, whose enslaving tendencies were antagonistic to Russia’s revolutionary ideals. Another manifesto appeals to tbo Allies not to condemn Russia hastily as she is over-absorbed in .consolidating her new liberties. M. Makalakos. tho leader of tho •Cadet party in the Duma, has been appointed Ambassador at Paris.

GERMANY'S LOST AIR PRESTIGE

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT RECOVERY. JBj Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, Juno 21 Tho “Morning Post’s” correspondent at Headquarters states that tho 'German airmen arc desperately: attempting to recover the prestige lost at Mcssines, when the British completely smothered them and prevented them from taking part in tho battle. Tho Germans do not venture to attack singly, and frequently a couple of British machines have dispersed a German squadron of fifteen machines like frightened birds.

AUSTRIAN CRISIS

CLAMMARTINITZ TO FORM CABINET. J3y Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. AMSTERDAM, June 21. Tho Austrian Emperor has asked Count Clamniartinita (.Minister for Agriculture) to reform the Austrian Cabinet.

COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE

jjjy Tclugrapli—Presft Association —Copyriffbi United Service Telegram. (Received June 23, 1.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 22, The Government has decided to hold the next Allied Conference in London in 191 S.

CANADIAN CONSCRIPTION

GOVERNMENT MEASURE CERTAIN TO BE CARRIED. By Telegraph -Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. OTTAWA, Juno 21. Tho defeat of conscription is not expected. The Government majority is largo, and there is no doubt that tho final vote will carry the bill by a substantial margin.