RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1917, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

RUSSIA’S POSITION.

A DECISIVE HOUR.

f AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.]

ROTTERDAM, June 19,

The “Koelnisohe Zeitung” sjtates that the Russian Minister of the interior states that the decisive hour in tho revolution is at band and the next fortnight will reveal with whom the real power lies.

A HOPE FPL REPORT.

COPENHAGEN, June 19.

Mr. J. H. Thomas has arrived from Petrograd. Interviewed he said that in a few weeks Germany would n° longer he able to reckon on the Russian front.

Mr. Thomas predicts that Russia after the war will bo divided into Federal states in order to fulfil the different, racial desires.

SOCIALIST REQUEST REFUSED

(Reuter’« Telegrams .1

PIETR-OGRAD, June 19.

The Secretary of the Socialist Party wrote to Captain Kalinsky, commanding the Russian cruiser Askold, asking him to convey Mr. Ramsay MacDonald npd party to Russia. Captain Kalinsky replied that his officers had unanimously decided that it was their duty to only act in accordance with the Provisional Government’s orders. They did not desire to carry deputies favouring immediate peace.

MAD ANARCHISTS. (Received this day at 1.20 a.m.,) PETROGRAD, Juno 20. Fifty anarchists, with three machine guns, established themselves in buildings in a populous centre of the t°wn. Two companies of Guards and Cossadks surrounded tho buildings and compelled their surrender. The anarchists were gaoled.

ATTACK AT RIGA. (Received this day at 1.20 a.m.,) PETROGRAD, Ju n e 20. Five German hydroplanes flew over the base at Riga front and dropped 41 bombs on sheds, ships and batteries unsuccessfully. They were driven off by the coast batteries, which o n several successive days brilliantly repulsed a number of fruitless airship attacks.