THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14408, 9 May 1917, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

SITUATION MUCH IMPROVED.

ANTI-GOVERNMENT FACTIONS

SWAMPED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Petrograd, May 7. There is marked improvement in the situation. The anti-Government intrigues have compelled the sober majority of the inhabitants to proclaim their view.

Huge gatherings of Government supporters of all classes have proclaimed tteir adherence to the Provisional Government, swamping the anti-German demonstrations organised by the extreme Socialists, who have been dominating the situation by sheer terroristic bluff.

The Workmen's and Soldiers' Council urges that an Arbitration Court should be established and the armies diminished; and also that institutions sL-ould be set up to protect the nation against the menace of imperialism.