ANARCHIST REVOLT IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3120, 26 June 1917, Page 5

ANARCHIST REVOLT IN RUSSIA

DESPERATE EXTREMISTS ADOPT TERRORIST METHODS

WOMEN " BATTALIONS OF ■ DEATH" READY l SPY SENSATION IN . ITALY VAST GERMAN PLOT AGAINST NORWAY The reports from Russia to-day are less cheerful. . The "Morning Post" correspondent at Petrograd sta fces that the internal situation- is steadily going from bad to worse- Tho anarchist element is creating disorders, and in the case of the Dou rnovas affair, is an open revolt. Mr. Thomas, the French Minister -who t ecently visited. Petrograd on a special mission, is very hopeful about the general prospects., There is no news from the Russian lighting fronts. I n the West the German attacks on the French front continue without avail. The latest sensation in . Italy is the uncovering of a nest of s pies and a trial of the accused, in camera, which lasteS over fifty Bess ions, the public being allowed into the court only at the end, when the sentences were meted out with Spartan rigour, to the accompaniment of execrations from the crowd. An official of the Vatican plays apr ominent part in the affair, but at present he is a fugitive from justdc e. The Norwegian Parliament is sitting in camera to discuss the'discovery of a vast German plot which is aimed directly at Norwegian, intero sts. Norway has lost heavily from the war, and the discovery ..of a large "plant" of all sorts of bombs and infernal machines has brought the Huns under deep suspicion.