POLAND'S INDEPENDENCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 7

POLAND'S INDEPENDENCE

Potrograd, April 1. The Government has issued a manifesto guaranteeing an independent Poland, comprising all provinces where the majority of tho people speak Polish. A Constituent Assembly, elected on' universal suffrage, will settle the form of government'. The iiew State will be entiroly independent of Russia, except as regards tho military. The manifesto urges all Poles to fight against German . oppression.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. THIS FUTURE OK FINLAND. Copenhagen, April. 1. M: Miliukoff (Minister for Foreign Affairs) states that tho Finnish Diet meets on' Thursday, in order to decide i Finland's form of government.—Aus.-, N.Z. Cable Assn. ' .. ' STONES INSTEAD OF GRENADES • HOW RUSSKV'S ARMIES WERE BETRAYED. London, April 1. ■ The "Sunday Times'", correspondent at Potrograd-states that in General Russky's. armies, which are holding tho; key to Petrograd, tho, regiments in j tho front trenches had. for weeks only: stones With which to roply to tho Gorman grenades. Liberal newspapers circulated in \ the trenches .. opened' tho eyes of the 1 soldiers'to tho identity of i their betrayers, and the result wn6 swift retribution upon tho, bureauorats responsible. Meanwhile, the revolution will substitute grenades, aud tho best modern weapons,' for tho stones and cudgels.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo'Assn.