RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16233, 31 March 1917, Page 9

RUSSIA.

SOCIALIST EXILE RECALLED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) PETROGRAD/ March 2f>. The Duma has recalled Prince Kropotkiu to assist in reorganisation. PEOPLE'S MANIFESTO. DENOUNCES LUST OF CONQUEST. The Council of Workmen and Soldiors' Delegates has sent a manifesto to the people of all countries, particularly the Germans, denouncing the aspirations for conquest by the ruling classes. The Labour leader Tehilzd said -that the manifesto's watchword is "Down with William," and in addressing Germans' "We do not loose guasp of the rifle." EX-CZAR AND FAMILY HAPPY. LONDON, March 29. The ex-Czar has asked for permission to send his son to Norway on health grounds. The ex-Czar and family are happy in captivity, and Nicholas is iilways first to kneel in church during urayer for the Provisional Government.

! SUBMARINE WAR. SINKING OF THE ASTURIAS. . ' A GERMAN ACCUSATION. Admiralty—Per Wireless Press. Received 5.40 p.m., March 30th. ' LONDON, March 29 > A Berlin communique justifies the sinking of the Astiirias on the ground J of Germany's warning on January 31. ! habitually uses hospital ships to tran- / sport troops and munitions, anil adds that Germany is constantly receiving proofs of such misuse. ANOTHER VICTIM. SyUNK IN BAY OF BISCAY. (United Service.) Received, 0.12 a.m., March 31st. MADRID, March 30. The' purser, chief '. engineer, third officor, four-. Red Cross nurses, and forty-seven other survivors from a steamers sunk in the Bay of Biscay have arrived at Gijon. Eighteen were taken to 'hospital. • j ' TWO SHIPS SUNK.' ' SEVERE TIME IN BOATS. (Australian and ,N.Z. Cable Assn. i and Reuter.) LONDON, March 29. The Alnwick Castle the day previously to her-own destruction, rescued tho crew of another torpedoed British ship. The passengers and crow of both vessels abandoned the Alnwick Castle :n fivo boats, of which one landed on the Spanish coast with twenty-nine, including one stewardess and one child. Eight of the survivors died, and others ! are suffering from frost-bito. Throe other Coats Were picked up during tho week. .' One contained! . twenty-seven, another twenty-nine, tho third twenty survivors, and five corpses. The remain- . ing boat is not yet accounted for. i