RUSSIAN RESOLVE.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1917, Page 2

RUSSIAN RESOLVE.

Grown Properties for Ration. (Received April 2 at 10,55 a.rn.) Petrograd; April 1 Government has decreed that Grown proper!iea, including more than a million' square miles of cultivated lands aid forest*, and the Siberian gold mines shall revert to the nation. Grand Dukes will no longer be paid grants. Government have issued a mini- ~ feato guaranteeing an independent Poland, comprising all tbe provinces where tbe majority spaak Pojaud. The Constituent Assembly will be elected on universal suffrage, and will settle the form of Government. The new State will be entirely independent of Russia, except militarily, The manifesto urges ail Poles to fight German oppression. Finland's Government. Copenhagen, April 1 Miiinkoff states the Finnish Diet meets on Thursday iu order to decide Finland's loros of Government. Spies in Australia. (Received April 2, at 11.20 a.m) Melbourne, April 2 Government is possessed of information of. German espionage in Australia, which shows that every effort waa made to get into touch with German residents interned. A report from a Girman missionary

at Broome was intercepted. It contained information of the adaptability of West Australia, f<,r Germrn settlement. A great steamship company was for intelligence purposes aud nothing less than a branch of the German Admiralty. The German press were most accurate in sending news favourable to the enemy cause. In one district, a German agent endeavoured to organise' the German population in readiness for military operations.