RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11366, 12 October 1917, Page 8

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

GOVERNMENT WILL WORK FOR

PEACE. BUT WILL EJECT THE ENESV3Y. United Press Assoc iat i on—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyrlgu £.- Reuter, Received Oct. i'2, nOOli. Potrograd, Ot. lh A Government manifesto states ,1 that the convocation of ‘ lColl l Ht l l^pl^, Assendily must not be ( ‘ j, Meanwhile tho Provincial Cover mont will indefutigahly work ±Ol universal peace, which is essential to Russian reconstrntion The Russian delegates at the inter Allied oufreeno at Paris 1^ lll A an understanding with tho_ AL 05 jsubjeot to the priniples proclaimed by tho Russian revolution. They include a special delegate, enjoying the confidence of democratic organisations. Tho Government s whole strength will support tho allied cause, eject the enemy from [Russia and restore tlie lighting strength of tho army. , . A punitive expedition has arrived •at Tashkent and arrested the Revolutionary Committee and Governor, whom tlie local Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ delegates appointed.