RUSSIA

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16231, 29 March 1917, Page 8

RUSSIA

SUPPORT FOR NEW GOVERNMENT (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.} PETROGRAD, March 27.' Archangel : and i Vladivostock; telegrams announce that the Siberian Arc!bic fleet and local garrisons support the new Government. DIVIDED. ACTION. . REPUBLICANISM GROWING STRONGER, •• .-The • Council' of workmen and. Soldiers' delegates which M. Clieidze conlDrols~ are not losing ground, v The Provisional Government does not take any important step without the Council's, approval. ./ . There is no hope at presenlt of this divided authority ending, though it makes the position of the Government extremely _clif'lcult. : .Tlio Repuuiican idea is dhiiy gro,wing stronger. 1 SUPPOSED ' INCENDIARISM. A- Great fire off' cotton stores a,t Vladivostock is believed to he due to incendiarism. >' . . *CAPTURE AT 7 PALACE. SECIffiT WIRELESS STATION. ' DIRECT TO BERLIN. COPENHAGEN, March 27. As a result of the seizure of correspondence between the Czaritza and M. Protopo'poff a secret wireless station :was discovered a'c Tsarskoe Selo which communicated with Berlin. It was installed by M. Protopopoff withou'o the Czar's knowledge. DISLODGED BY GAS. (Australian and, N.Z. Cable Assn. - and Reuter.V Admiralty—Per Press LONDON, March 27. A Russian official ■ message says:— Aktacks. accompanied. by. asphyxiating gases, on the west bank of the river Sliara (north of Pinsk marshes compelled us to retire eastward.