RUSSIA WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1917, Page 2

RUSSIA WITHIN.

(P’qr Press Association— Copyright; RUSSIAN REBELS. KRONSTADT, June 5. Tho so-called republics maintain their independence and have issued a defiance to Russia. The Commissary representing the Government has left the island, which is entirely in the hands of the revolutionary troops. JAPAN WARNS RUSSIA. NEW YORK, June 6. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent has learned that Japan has informed the Russian Government that if Russia withdraws Japan in consultation with Great Britain will consider what measures she shall take She is determined to stand by the Allies until Germany is defeated and warns Russia that by a separate peace she will become helplessly under German domination Anglo- Japanese diplomats in Petrograd are believed to bo convinced that the Provisional authorities! will stand fast but the danger lies in the ignorant masses clamouring for bread who are ready for plunder and anarchy. Japan does not claim interest in Europe, but realises that Russia’s decision will affect the situation . RUSSIA’S LOAN. PETROGRAD, June 6. Subscriptions to the Liberty Loan total a millard roubles. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Petrograd correspondent is of tho opinion that the loan will be a comparative failure forcing the Government to make a huge issue of bank-notes. Tho working classes charge capitalists with not support- I ing the loan The Government is thus forced toAji.se paper money with the result that the rouble will fall still lowand the workers will be forced to make still higher demands. The official organ of the Workers’ and Soldiers* delegates demands that the Treasury will take excess profits and heavily tax incomes and property. Meanwhile enthusiasm has been aroused by M. Kerensky’s speeches) on the fighting fronts, owing to their intensity. GUNS HEARD IN LONDON. \ (United Service Telegrams.) LONDON,! June 5. The artillery preparation on the northern British frqnt continues with unparalleled intensity and the guns are heard in London, 150 miles distant, windows and crockery vibrating in Kent and Sussex.A faint thudding can be heard at Harrow. A POLISH FAMINE. ["“reutbr’b” telegram.] ~BERNE, June 5. The whole of Russian Poland is gripped by famine, which is especially I acute at Warsaw, Lodz, and other indus trial centres. The Polish State Council- has appealed to the German authorities to take urgent measures to avoid a catastropho. There are hundreds of deiths daily through lack of food. A GERMAN REPORT. fADMIRALTY PER WIRELESS PRESS.] London, June 5. German official The artillery battle at ‘ the Wytschaote salient and in the neighbouring sectors has reached extreme violence. There is lively fight- ; at s*r«r*l points in the neighbourhood of the coast and between La Bassee Canal and the Bapaume-Cam-brai road. The English advances were without result and we heavily repulsed two French night attacks near Bravo. We brought down twelve enemy aeroplanes. HENDERSON’S MISSION . PETROGRAD, June o. Hon John Hondorson attended a meeting of the Provisional Government. Ho reported that the effect of State intervention in British commerce and industry showed useful results * were obtained in England, by wise system atic State intervention.