THE DELUGE-AND AFTER

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3039, 28 March 1917, Page 5

THE DELUGE-AND AFTER

RUSSIAN EX-MINISTERS TO BE

EXAMINED

COMMISSION APPOINTED

TO INQUIRE INTO THEIR OFFENCES Petrogratf, March. 26. The Government has appointed a Commission to inquire into the offences of former Ministers and civil and military officials. A movement has been begun by the Russian Church leaders and the committee of Liberal priests to organise reforms. Barnabas, an ignorant gardener, who was appointed Bishop of Tobolsk' by Rasputin, has already been, deposed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE SITUATION TO-DAY. . STILL SERIOUS—BUT CRISIS OVER. ' _ Paris, March 26. Tho "Petit Parisien's" correspondent at Potrograd had an interview with M. Kerenski, who said that tho situation was still serious, but it had passed tho crisis. Women's suffrage would not bo introduced for the election of tie Constituent Assembly owing to insufficient time to effecF'the reform.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn.. THE TRANSFER OE DUTIES. Rome, March 26. Advices from Petrograd ■ state that the_ transfer of executive powers and military commands is proceeding without conflict. No member of the Imperial Family will hold a position in the army or the civil administration.— AUE.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE TREASON TRIAL OF GENERAL SUHHOMLINOFF PetroErad, March 26, The Press devotes much space to the details of tho Myasoedoffi treason oeso, and allege that" General Sukhomlinoff was conneoted with it. Though Myasoedoff organised the wholo traitorous spyfad system, he was on intimate terniß with Sukhomlinoff, and was mixed up in tho latter , s divorce and second marriage. General Sukhomlinoff would have been brought to trial long ago,, but tho ex-Empress intervened,' owing Ito tho. tearful protestations of Suk- | homlinoff's wife.—Aus.-N.Z. " Cable Assn.

[General Snkhomlinoff (ex-Minister for War) is to be prosecuted for high treason. Myasoedoff (who was hanged last year, for betraying Russian plans to Germany) was a member of an Tmsorupulous gang who surrounded Sukhomlinoff and cot him 60 completely in' their clutches that escape was impos-1 sib.le. The General was very intimato i with Myasoodoff, but, according to a I Russian paper, he had no inklins: of his j true character, and reposed in him his greatest confidence, and communicated to him not only hie private family news, but also many of the secrets of the War Depaxtment.] AN EXCELLENT SIGN OF TUE TIMES (Rec. March 26, 5.20 p.m.) Petrograd, March 26. ■ 'An excellent sign of the tiraps is tho arrival of enthusiastic deputations conveying messages from the trenches, assuring tho country thf.t it can rely on its defenders. One message states: "An inconelusiyo end to the war would cover Russia with eternal ehamo. New Russia must not be stamped with treaohery. You havo defeated- the internal enemy. Let us conquer the foreign foe." —Renter.