RUSSIA PROCLAIMED A REPUBLIC

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3193, 18 September 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA PROCLAIMED A REPUBLIC

, NEW STEP TO SAVE THE NATION KORNILOFFS REVOLT SUPPRESSED COSSACKS DISOBEY THE GOVERNMENT ITALIANS GAIN NEW GROUND The Russian situation is becoming less acute. A Republic lias been, proclaimed to buttress the nation against the "mortal dangor" which still threatens it. The Korniloff revolt, statee a Government manifesto! has been suppressed, but the Cossacks, states another report, have refused to obey the order of the Government to arrest General Kaledin, who was last reported to have reached the Don district at the head of. four -divisions in support of Korniloff. M. Kereiisky has announced Ma readiness to resign in order to enable the party leaders to compose their differences. On the fighting front the Russians are- growing stronger, and expert opinion holds out no danger to the capital. The Germans, however, are stated to be making preparations .to break through. Another sinister incident of the revolutionary time 3 in Eussia is the shooting of four naval officers by their ship's crew for refusing to sign a declaration to support the Government t. On the Italian front new ground hae been gained on the Bainsizza Plateau. A successful raid by the British and intermittent artillery activity ore the principal incidents of the fighting in tho Western theatre!