RUSSIA DETERMINED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 867, 20 November 1916, Page 8

RUSSIA DETERMINED.

VICTORY MUST. BE WON. GREAT INCREASE IN MUNITIONS. Renter's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, November 19. Amid great enthusiasm in the Duma, General Shuvayeff, Minister of War. detailed the enormous increase in Russia's output of munitions since the beginning of 1915, especially in light guns, rifles, and shells. In certain cases the increase had been fortyfold. The Minister declared: "We must and shall conquer. No power on earth is capable of conquering Russia. II is not only our army which is waging war, but the whole Russian people, as men, women, girls, and boys are engaged in the production of munitions. The enemy's alleged 'shattering blows' have come to nought. He is caught and cannot escape. v The Minister of Marine, Admiral Grigorovich, surrounded by cheering members, declared that the war would be waged to a victorious end. M. Roditcheff added that the Duma desired nothing else than only to be assembled io further that object of victory. The Tsar, in a telegram to the Council of State, thanked it for its unanimous decision to sacrifice everything for the sake of the final victory.

NO SEPARATE PEACE. A RUMOUR DENIED. Australian ar.d N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, November 19. The Russian Premier has telegraphed to the Russian Ambassador in Paris denying the absurd rumours as to secret Russian and German negotiations with a view to a separate peace. Russia, he says, intends to fight the common enemy unfalteringly alongside her allies till the final victory is won. No hostile intrigue will weaken Russia's irrevocable decision. A UNITED NATION. THE POSITION FAVOURABLE. "The. Times" Service. LONDON, November 19. "The Times" Petrograd correspondent states that M. Maklakov, in the Duma, declared that it was anomalous that though everything was favourable at the front, in the munition factories and in the military exhaustion of Germany, it was evident that they were, nevertheless, confronted by a new peril consisting of a change in the spirit of Russia. Certain other currents had set in, and some were even daring to speak of peace while others were exhibiting despair.

M. Rodzianko was re-elected President, and expressed his belief that the same harmony, absence of party barriers, and spirit of mutual concession would animate the proceedings in the coming year as had prevailed in the past. "The Times" correspondent adds: "The Premier's circular note contradicting the rumours as to a separate peace is regarded as a reply to M. Maklakov's speech."