GOOD NEWS FROM RUSSIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15182, 29 March 1917, Page 5

GOOD NEWS FROM RUSSIA.

EARLY SOLUTION OF FOOD PROBLEM EXPECTED. IMPORTANT REFORMS BY WAR OFFICE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received March 29, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, March 28. The Daily Chronicle’s Petrograd correspondent says that reports from the front indicate that the first danger of disorders is past. The troops are entering into the spirit of the new regime. The War Office is pushing forward Important reforms with great spqcd. Tue old regime offered almost insuperable obstacles, even to obvious necessities, and ideas, which were never lacking are now finding scope. Reforms are now being carried out which will immediately bring the army organisation into line with the Allies. The transformation has already produced startling results, and the work of combating German espionage is being greatly simplified. There is every prospect of an early solution of the food problem, as the peasants are co-operating. Reports from many centres announce that hoarded corn is being rushed to the railway stations. Meanwhile many large towns are introducing rations.

COMPLETE AUTONOMY FOR , FINLAND. Received March 29, 9.55 a.m. STOCKHOLM/March 28. M. Miliukoff announces that the new regime will .give Finland complete autonomy and a legal constitution. M. Miliukoff adds; Sweden, therefore, has nothing to fear from Russia, and thero is nothing to prevent cordial relations being established. The Russian Government announces that an amnesty has been granted to 3000 young Finns who, desperate at seeing their country oppressed by Czarism, had entered the German army.