ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL CHAOS IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3102, 5 June 1917, Page 5

ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL CHAOS IN RUSSIA

COUNTRY IN GRAVE INTERNAL DANGER ANARCHISTS AND EXTREMISTS OPENLY DEFIANT Petrograd, .Juno 3. Tlin chaotic, iudustrinl upheaval and labour troubles are widespread. Tlio workers generally demand a six Lours' day, ami many factories are closing. The food situation is Rerions, and bread queues wait all night. The Government has ordered that only black ami brown bread shall bo baked, and has reduced tho.sugar ;dlowanco to half a pound per head per month. Special lnoasures aro being taken lo avnrt a financial crisis. The. State Bn.uk is issuing J20O,(K)O,O0O in bank notes lo counter-balance the comparative failnro of the- recent loan anil llio disorganisation. Plots and coimter-plots are formed unhindered. Armed anarchists and extremists hold processions in the main streets, inciting the populace, to defy tho constituted authority. M. Konovaloff, Minister of Commerce, since .ho resigned, has been speaking at the Congress of War Industrie; in Moscow. Ho said thnt tho anti-Stato tendencies were lending Russia by gigantic strikes -to catastrophe.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , RUIN AND TREACHERY. Potronrad, .Tuno .1. A. meeting of delegates of the avniy and navy officers resolved that any delay in restoring tho combatant power of - tho army and fleet would bo equivalent to the ruin of Russia, and treachery towards her faithful Allies.—Reuter. LOYAL COSSACKS. Petrograd, June 3. The General. Couivo.il of tho Cossack forces has sent an address to tho Government, a&mring il: that tho Cossacks will assist in any offensive to their utmost, in tho conviction that peaco can only be procured by force of anus. The address denies that tho Cossacta are (fllilty of desertions or of fraternising with tbo enemy. Tho Cossacks regret that they are scattered over tho whole front nnd not grouped together so us to be able to strike a. powerful Mow.—Reuter. ' MR; ARTHUR HENDERSON'S MISSION I - (Roc. June 4. 5.15 p.m.) Petrograd, June 3. Mr. Arthur Henderson (the British Minister on special mission, to EussinV, in mi inlwviovr accorded lo the "J*fovoe Vrenjya." said he had come to servo tho I common interests of Russian and British democracies, the aims of .which were ! identical. "We are defending the cause of right, truth, and liberty against militarism." ho said. "Our akrs is for a rapid but durable peace."—A\is.-Jt.Z. Cable Assn. .' FIGHTING ON THE ASIATIC FRONT I ___ I . • KURDISH ATTACKS REPULSED. London, i.lui»> 3. A Russian official report states: "Wo heavily repelled five hundred Kurds who attacked us south-eastward of Jireinffan. Wo occupied, after a battle, three Turkish heights in the region of Salcldz (north-west Persia). The Turkish attacks in the roar of our Kennanshah. army continue."—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. ' THE UNITED STATES MISSION TO RUSSIA. , x , • v Washington, .Tune 3. It is announced that "Mr. 11l Hi u 'Boot and tho other members of the United States Commision to Russia have arrived safely at a Russian port.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . ' NEW GOVERNOR OF PETROGRAD AT WORK (Dec. June 4, 11.50 p.m.) Petrograd, Jane 4. General Polovtltofl', the now Military Governor of I'etrograd, has arrived. He inaugurated his assumption of the command by visiting tho Soldiers' a'nd Workmen's Council. He is an Anglophile, and is at present elaborating a scheme for a Soldiers' Advisory Board for ensuring the execution of orders.—Reuter.