FUTURE PROBLEMS FOR RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3034, 22 March 1917, Page 5

FUTURE PROBLEMS FOR RUSSIA

WAR TO BE WON FIRST

AN INTERVIEW WITH M. MILIUKOFF

IMMENSE TASK AHEAD ( Paris, March 20. Tho "Pof.it Parisian's" correspondent at Petrograd had 1 an interview with M. Miliukoff, who said that Russia in a few hours threw over tile tyrannical power which was ineapablo of' securing the peoplo's food or organising tho nation's strength to vanquish tho enemy. Tho Provisional Government would use all its energy to secure a speedy victory. Immense problems were ahead, 'including a complete political recon-struction.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A war' interregnum RADICAL CHANGES AFTER THE WAR. London, March 20. The "Morning Post's" correspondent at Petrograd considers it unlikely that any radical change will ho made in the Russian Constitution during tho war period. It will probably remain under judicially correct forms until the Constituent Assembly can he established, and this is impossible before victory. Thus tho Russian soldiers and sailors lmow they are fighting for something definite at homo. Tho Germans will no doubt feel tho weight of Russia's new war spirit. Tho correspondent, however, points out tho necessity for the Government suppressing certain forces of anarchy, which rcoently have been too prominent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo 'Assn. REVOLT SPREADS TQ FINLAND THE RED FLAG OR DEATH 1 Stockholm, March 20. Tho Finnish newspaper "Kaikm" states that there was a revolution in Helsingfors on Friday. Tho military deposed the police, and work.and traffic were stopped. Soldiers on > Saturday walked the streets carrying red flags. They offered them to officers, and' many who refused to teko them were shot. Fourteen naval officers were killed. The revolutionaries arrested the Governor and military commander at ViKoi-g. Many Finnish Governors liave resigned. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ADMIRAL KILT/ED BY HIS OWN MARINES. (Rec. March 21, 5.15 p.m.) Petrograd, Marcli 20. Admiral Njeupon was killed, at Holsingfors by his own marines during the • revolutionary ' troubles.—Tho "Times." WHAT THE GERMAN PEOPLE ARE , THINKING RUSSIAN REVOLT RAISES AWKWARD QUESTIONS. New York,. March 20. Dispatches from Berlin intimate that growing restlessness has been caused in Germany by the Russian revolution. The Socialist newspapers are asking: "Shall all nations be free except Germany?" . Tho Imperial Chancellor (Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg') in the Reichstag repeated the promise of equal political rights after the war. He added that unless this was granted -ffio nation would have to face inner difficulties the importance of which none could foresee. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable 'Assn. WORKING CLASSES SEETHING WITH DISCONTENT. SERIOUS OUTBREAKS. (Rec. March 21, 10.45 p.m.) Zurich, March 21. 'A wireless message states tha>- tho Russian revolution created an citation in German working class circles, which culminated in riots. Several workshops in Leipzig have been closed on account of a demonstration and strikes. It is reported that troubles have i also occurred at Dresden and Munich. The authorities are taking prompt measures to cope with the situation. ' Landwehr regiments have been sent to Leipzig and other working class towns where the troubles' are becoming acute. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.