AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13448, 29 March 1917, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

EVOLVING ORDER FROM CHAOS. FIRST DANGER OF DISORDERS PASSED. ARMY CO-OPERATING WITH THE GOVERNMENT. MANY REFORMS INTRODUCED. GERMAN ESPIONAGE THWARTED. DEALING WITH FOOD QUESTION. SUPPLIES RAPIDLY COMING IN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 29, 9.55 a.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, and the troops are entering into the spirit of the new regime Tlie War Office is pushing forward important reforms with great speed. The old regime offered almost insuperable obstacles, even to obvious necessities. Ideas, which were never lacking, are now finding scope, and the reforms which are now being carried out will immediately bring the Army organisation into line with that of the Allies. The transformation has already produced startling results, and the work of combating the German espionage is greatly simplified. There is every prospect of an early solution of the food problem as the peasants are co-oper-ating. Reports from many centres announce that hoarded corn is being hastened to the railway stations, meanwhile many large towns are introducing rations.