RUSSIA

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16228, 26 March 1917, Page 7

RUSSIA

A RAPID ADJUSTMENT.

GERMAN OFFENSIVE EXPECTED

(■Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.l Received 5.5 p.m., March 25th. LONDON, March 23.

The "'Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says that .re-organisation is being speeded tip ..with the utmost earnestness. ,

The idea is widespread that the swiftness of the German retreat on the West front means that; Marshal Von Hindenberg is mossing troops to take Russia unprepared. This has had a. sobering effect and many factories have resumed work/ recruits are drilling, streets, /shops and banks are open, and trains are running.

It is astonishing that the city has so quickly recovered. The Army will shortly take an bath to serve the new Government.. Newspapers are, energetically/ calling attention to the. war, declaring that it must not be overshadowed in the fervour of internal reform.

AN OUTSPOKEN LETTER. GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS TO ' THE CZAR. ("The Times.") PETROGRAD, March 23. An extraordinary letter which' the i Grand Duke Nicholas Milulovitch wrote to the Caar-in November is now putn lished, warning him against intriguers who were using his wife as an instrument.T,he Grand Duke's letter says: "Often didst thou tell me thou couldst put faith in none, and that this applies particularly to. a wife who, though loving thee, yet didst lead thee into error, being surrounded by evil-minded intimates." ' The Grand Duke Nicholas was exiled in i December for telling the Czar the truth and denouncing the monk Rasputin. . ' GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATION. ,' EMPEROR AND EMPRESSi ISOLATED. PETROGRAD, March 23. A Government proclamation- states that the whole of "Russia, including Finland, the Caucasus, Turkestan and Siberia laps joined the new regime. The coup-de-mnin only deprived Russia of two thousand killed and wounded. It is necessary to isolate the Emperor and. Empress at their castle of Tsai'skoe Selo in order to prevent a counter revolution with . a monarchical propaganda.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL OP FINLAND. STOCKHOLM, Marcli'23. M. Dakovitch, a meiriaer of th& Duma, . has been appointed GovernorGeneral of Finland. NIHILIST PARTY DISSOLVED. Received 11.35 p.m., March 25th. PETROGRAD, March 24. As a result of the revolution th> Nihilist party has boon dissolved.

CAUTION TO CITIZENS. ' , PETROGRAD SWARMING WrTBC SPIES. . Received 11.15 p.m., March 25th'. • Tho Minister of Munitions has issued a proclamation that the enemy is threatening Petrograd and concentrating" Reinforcements', munitions, and food on the northern front. Petrograd is swarming with spies and traitors who are nefariously operating in all classes, professions, and trades', wearing all IcTiuls nf and disfrnises 11° urges the citizens to he prudent and not betray secrets of national defence.