RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16229, 27 March 1917, Page 7

RUSSIA.

| WAR CABINET. A SCHEME IN PREPARATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received 5.5 p.m., March 26th. PETROGRAD, March 25. M. Gutchlcoff, Minister of War, is preparing a scheme whereby a committee consisting of the Ministers of War, Navy. Finance, and Foreign Affairs 9hall become responsible for the main direction of the war, the Commander-in-Chief retaining a free hand in regard to strategy. \The , Ministers of Communications and Agriculture will possibly join the Committee.ARMY SWEARS LOYALTY. General Alexieff. notified the President of the Council that the Army has taken the oath of loyalty to the Fatherland aaid the Provisional Government. RECOGNISING NEW GOVERNMENT (Renter's Telegrams.) Received 9.55 p.m., Marcli 26th. ! PETROGRAD, March 25The British, French, and Italian Ambassadors presented their respects to the Provisional Government. M. Milukoff, replying on behalf of the Government, said he had full confidence that Russia would justify the hopes and expectations of all her well-wishers. SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. A TROUBLESOME ELEMENT. . (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received 1.35 a.m., March 27th. PETROGRAD, 'March 26. The Social Democratic Party, through the newspaper "Pravda,/' published the Central Committee's resolution inciting soldiers to leave the trenches and go over to the enemy, asserting that) ihis would immediately evoke a frarternal response on the part of the Germans. The war among all the nations would then promptly thus euabling the army and people to devote themselves to the final overthrow of the ruling classes. Only the presence of M. Kerinsky in the Provisional Government thus far has prevented an open rupture, but the Moderate Party is obliged -to make endless concessions to unreasonable demands of the theorists. The mania for foiming committees, which, was one of. the worst features of the bureaucratic regime, is terribly hampering the Reforir. 3 > arty. A TREASON CASE. The Press devotes' much space to details of the Measoldoff treason case. They allege that General Snkhomlinoff. who has been indicted, was connected with it, and that though Measoldoif organised the whole of tho traitorous spying fystcm he was on intimate terms with Sukhomlinoff and was mixed up with the iatter's divorce and his second marriage. Sukhomlinoff would have been brought to trial long ago but that t.he ex-Empress intervened, owing to the tearful protestations of Sukhomlinoff's wife.