RUSSIAN POLITICS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2979, 17 January 1917, Page 5

RUSSIAN POLITICS

RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT A SURPRISE ... Peirograd, January 15. Prince Nicholas Dimitrieviteb. Goliin zine's announcement of his programmei in tho ".Novoe Va-emya" : fcta.tes i that he ■ does not intend to resist' the introduction, of responsible government.' This has caused surprise. ■' "■'•. . Tho "Russkoe Slovo" states that MM. Anokrowsky, Pokrovrskyj Bark, and Tanieff J chief of the Emperor's otto Cabinet, have resigned -with M. Trepoff, declaring that it ia impossible to co--11 operate with M. Protopopoff (Minister of the Interior)!—Aue.-N.Z. Cable* Assn. ~. .'. • ...J STRIKING.'WARNINGS ' ' ■' . (Kec. January 16, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 15. "Tho Times" Petrograd oorresponi dent says the-late Count Bencken- , l dorft (Russian Ambassador in London), in recent letters home, > conveys striking warnings;. against ;M. " Boris Stua-mer's clique,:and wrote:. "We are saddled with men in whom not a single ouo of our allies believes. When I see . how Russia is ibeinj: pushed to the edge , of an abyss by the hands of men j whose duty it is to save her,- my sufferings are: inexpressible. Every mail [ from Petrograd plunges me into a ! deeper dismal pessimism ."—"The Times." [■ [M. Stunner was Premier of Eus- . sia, and was succeeded by M. Trepoffi on November 24.") . " .