RUSSIAN CRISIS PAST

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3090, 22 May 1917, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS PAST

UNQUESTIONED LOYALTY TO THE ALLIES ACTIVITY ON THE BATTLE FRONTS ,„. „ New York, May 20. llie New York "Sun's" Petrograd correspondent states, in a cable message, that tho crisis is past, and that there is now 110 question of Russia's loyalty to tlie Allies.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUSSIA'S DUTY TO THE ALLIES, (liee. May 21, 5.50 p.m.) Petrograd, May 20. Prince Lvoff (the Prime Minister), in a. statement to the pressmen, insisted that it was Russia's duty to observe her alliances with the "Western democracies. "The Russians," he said, "cannot remain indifferent to the fate of the over-run Allied countries. The existing armistice at the front must cease.' The new Foreign Minister, M. I'erestchenko (previously Finance Minister), fully endorsed these viewß.—Beuter. WARM APPROVAL OF NEW REGIME (Rec. May 21, 5.50 p.m.) Petrograd, May 20. The Coalition Government's programme has been welcomed with profound satisfaction in all quarters. The Government's determination to take the most energetic measures against anarchy are warmly approved. The Socialist members of tho Cabinet addressed the National Congress of Peasants' Delegates, and stated that all great problems, such as the realisation of a broad democratic Socialist programme, must lie left to a Constituent Assembly. The new Government's hands wore full with running the war.—Aus.N.Z, Cable Assn. FRENCH CHIEF MUNITIONER AT PETEOGRAD. Paris, May 20. M. Albert Thomas, French' Minister of Munitions, is visiting Petrograd, and will remain as Ambassador till a successor 'is appointed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, . ON THE RUSSIAN BATTLE FRONT GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. London, May 20. Admiralty, per Wireless Press:—A Russian otheial report states: Onr artillery repulsed iin attempted attack eastward of Kalncem (Riga front). Wβ dispersed an attack eastward of Mount Koverla, in the direction of the Bystritza (Carpathian front).-Au6.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. OPERATIONS IN ASIA MINOR, " London, May 20. Admiralty, per Wireless Press:—A Russian communique states: "Wβ repulsed a combined force ■of Turks and Knrds northward of Bitlia (Asia Minor."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.