RUSSIA

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16229, 27 March 1917, Page 8

RUSSIA

RED FLAG ADOPTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ROME, March 25. The "Giornalo. d' Ttalia's" Petrograd correspondent states that the old Russian lias' been, abolished. All ihe regiments hare adopted the red flag.

•; THE DISCORDANT ELEMENT. ; ANTI-ROMANOFF FACTION. ("The Tim6s."V ■ . . PETROGRAD,' March 25. One or two newspapers are stirring lip wholesale resentment against it-he Romanoffs and pandering tcT the morbid and gruesome instincts of the masses. Counsels of moderation are falling, on deaf ears. The nerves of 'the public ha.vo been shaken by the recent evonts, with a resultant loss of tone and balance. ' , x THE RUSSIAN COMMAND. (Renter's Telegrams.) It is officially confirmed that the Grand Dulce Nicholas ,has retired from the pos't of Commander-in-Chief. General AkxiefE,; Chief of; the General ■-tafr, , will officiate temporarily. A GERMAN PLOT. (Australian ,and N.Z. Cahle Assn.) t LONDON, March 25. xhe <^ Berne correspondent states (that several Germans, including two prominent Socialists, in the past week approached Russian Socialises and political refugees in Switzerland urging them to return to Russia use their influence for neaee. Large sums of money were offered with safe conducts through Germany. The offer was contemptuously rejected, the - " Russian Socialist!? and refugees !]• bidding th em to return to Germany first and free Germans from Prussian despotism. GERMAN PLACARDS SEIZED. APPEALS TO SUPPORT THE GOV"- . i: ERNMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) PETROGRAD," March 25. Tlio authorities have seized innumerable manifestos and placards printed in Germany . urging the re-establish-.ir.ent of lobe old regime. The Mayor- of Moscow, on behalf of -the municipality, sent a message t.o Prince Lvoff claiming that that ci'fry be the seat of the Constituent Assembly. ■ The Holy Synod exhorts the faithful to unite in brotherly love, and abandon discord. It lias full confidence that the Provisional Government mil devote all its efforts Ito lead' the eternal Russian people in the paths c»f liberty, happiness and glory. . The popular Socialist Party iu a proclamation says: "Since our formation in 1915 we have urged Ithe convocation of the Constituent -Assembly as the only means to establish order in conformity to Ithe will of the people.'' Tt invites all to support the Government.*