THE RUSSIAN SITUATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17105, 10 September 1917, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN SITUATION

EETffiEMENT FROM RIGA. REARGUARD ACTIONS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. LONDON, September 7. A wireless Russian message states: In the direction of Riga,jiear Zegevold, there were encounters between our rearguard and enemy cavalry. Zeppelins dropped bombs near Hainash without result, and submarines shelled points on the Riga coast and attacked a transport unsuccessfully. Our gunboats and torpedo-boats remained at the mouth of the Dwina to the last moment, and then 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.

VILLAGES SET ON FIRE, GERMANS CAPTURE FORTY GUNS. Admiralty per Wireless Press. LONDON, September 7. A German official message says: Our cavalry are successfully fighting the enemy's rearguards 70 kilometres eastward of Riga. The enemy set fire to the villages between Lobe* Lake and Friedrichstadt. The booty -captured included 40 guns, 22 of large calibre. REFUGEES FROM RIGA ARRIVAL AT PETROGRAD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, September 6. A Petrograd despatch states that refugees from Riga have arrived at the capital, these including the last trainload which dashed through before the Germans cut the railway. Hundreds of Russian civilians were captured by the enemy. GOVERNOR OF RIGA. GENERAL VON ALTEN APPOINTED. Renter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, September a (Received Sept. 9, at 5.5 p.m.) General von Alten has been appointed Governor of Riga.

PREPARING FOR POSSIBILITIES.

STATE BANK REMOVED.

Router's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, September 8. (Received Sept. 9, at 5.5 p.m.) In view of the possibility of the German invasion continuing beyond the Riga sector the Russian State Bank and artillery headquarters are being removed to Nijni Novgorod.

GERMANY'S ATMS.

CONTROL OF BALTIC COAST.

Australian and N.Z. Cabfe Association. PARIS, September 7.

M. Marcel Hutin, in the Echo de Paris, says that the Russian retirement is more accentuated eastward of Riga than towards Friedrichstadt. The Germans are endeavouring to cut off communications in the Esthonia (or Reval) district and to become masters of the whole Baltic coastline.

CHINESE TROOPS.

READY TO HELP RUSSIA.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 6.

The Shanghai correspondent of tho Chinese World says that 15,000 Chinese troops have been mobilised to assist on the Russian battlefront.

GENERAL KORNTLOFFS POWERS.

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE SET

APPEAL TO THE WORKERS.

PETROGRAD, September 7.

The Government is placing the military district of Petrograd entirely in General Korniloft's hands. It 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 coxuiter-revolti-tionary agitation.

The Socialist newspapers are now urging the whole nation to maintain the defence of the country. The workers' organs strenuously appeal to their supporters to rally and work their hardest and loyally to submit to orders, to save the country and safeguard the revolution.

KAISER AND EX-CZAR.

GERMAN MINISTERS CONSULTED,

BERNE, September 7.

The Vossische Zeitung officially confirms the accuracy of the correspondence between the Kaiser and the ex-Czar, and adds: " The Kaiser acted after consultation with the Chancellor and the Foreign Minister." COUNTER-REYOLUTIONARIES. DEPORTATION PROBABLE Reuter's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, September 7. It it probable that those notables belonging to the old regime who were arrested in connection with the counterrevolution plot, and who are now in th©\ fortress of Peter and Paul, will be deported, including General Gourko, Madame Vuirubova (Lady-in-Waiting to the ex-Czarina and friend of Rasputin), and several exMinisters, besides two Grand Dukes, but a feeling exists that much more arbitrary steps than the Government has hitherto been able to take are essential before real progress towards more stable conditions can be made. AIM OF THE PLOTTERS. Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. PETROGRAD, September 7. (Received Sept. 9, at 5.5 p.m.) The object of the mspiracy in which the Grand Dukes, other members of the ex-Czar's entourage, and certain monarchist politicians are implicated was to arrest the Provisional Government and place the Grand Duke Michael on the throne. It j was not intended to liberate the ex-Czar. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES SUCCESSFUL. PETROGRAD, September 8. (Received Sept. 9, at 5.5 p.m.) At the municipal elections in Petrograd the Social Revolutionaries polled 182,000, the Extremists 174,000, and the Cadets 110,000. THE VITAL ISSUE. REMOVAL OF INTERNAL DANGER. APPEAL TO SOLDIERS AND DEMOCRATS, Admiralty, per Wireless Press. LONDON, September 8. (Received Sept. 9, at 5.5 p.m.) A Russian semi-official message states that the Central Committee of the Council of Workmen and Soldiers' Delegates has passed a resolution asserting +hat the removal of internal danger is a vital question ,in every country and every democracy, and urging the soldiers to redouble their efforts in order to increase the army's combative activitv and -wiim <h<\ ration of the economic life and the reorganisation of national defence. Tne c '.n----mittee appealed to all the Russian democratic forces to support the Provisional Government.