Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 December 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Australia-New Zealand Cable Servicu.j (Received This Day 9.30 a.m.) THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA. London., D«. 17. The- Observer's IVtrograd correspondent says that M. Pekrovsky was apl>oiiited the day after Prince von Hollweg's speech. He is honest and hardworking. Hounds of applause greeted the Duma's rejection of the German advances. Although the demand for the Cabinet's enjoying of public confidence has not yet been granted the opinion is -expressing itself with firmness and a striking uanimity. In the whole country from top to bottom there is an insistent demand for preo>rganization for victory and lience the denunciation of tho "dark forces'' or irresponsible influences which are regarded as the chief obstacle to the complete fusion of the government with th<> nation. Even the reactionary association of nobles, •which in 1915 denounced the summoning of the Duma, now has ousted its executive and overruled- its previous decision and demanded cabinet of confidence, but from tho standpoint cf dovotion to the autocracy it has re- - --—r : ■ •' •;

coin mended that the cabinet bo res- I ponsiblo to the Ozar. It must be noted that all the resolutions of the various bodies recently cabled, ami the ! concentration of widely divergent and I lonnerly opposing gioups. represent a greater effort towards real victory | than that leading to the formation of I a. war cabinet in This was j the situation whereon the German j peace proposals lumpen to impinge. THIS BLOCKADE OF GREIiDE. Rome, Dee. 17. The Tdibuna.s Athens cor respondent says the blcekade is exceedingly wtrict and there is only sufficient bread to last for .sixteen days in the city. The inhabitants already have been breadrationed. Meat and vegetables ar p!enfcil"ul. The Allies completely control th(> .straits of Corinth. There have been great royalist demonstrations 111 the provinces. mi _ GRAND DUKE .NICHOLAS I.N ItUMAXIA. I'etrcgrad, Dec. 17. The Runiniu.in retirement is being iidnc-tt cl I'li-.ler the Grand 'Duke Nicholas's advice. He lias taken fiver tin* command of the operations in Ru. mania. Received This Day. S).<> a.m. MOW MINISTERS. London, December 17. A bill has been drafted establishing Ministries of Labour, Food and Shipping. It fixes the Ministers' salaries | at t2()00. The offices,of Food and j Shipping will terminate twelve months after tlie war. ■ :? PRECAUTIONS IN BERLIN. The Daily Telegraph's Rome correspondent says that extraordinary precautions are being taken in Berlin in view of the meeting of the Reichstag. The gravest happenings are considered probably owing to the excitement of the hungrv populace who are hoping to see large supplies of the Rumanian cereals which have not yet arrived. PORTUGUESE TO THE FRONT. Paris, December 17. Ti'o Journal states that a Portuguese Expeditionary Corps under General Tamagnini is coming to ''ranee. A PEACE CAMPAIGN. Count UernstoTff is endeavouring to Manipulate a peaco campaign favourable to a peace conference. The Hearst papers are assisting with specal articles and the Evening Journal s organizing a peace petition to Presilent Wilson. EGYPT CONSERVING FOOD. Cairo, Dec. '17. The export of beans and rice has >een prohibited.