RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1917, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

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MARTIAL LAW AT TOMSK

PETROGRAD, June 21

Martial law has been proclaimed at Tomsk, owing to wholesale murders and robberies by amnested criminals called to the colors and anarchists. Twentythree hundred were arrested, and twenty resistere were killed and a number wounded. •

RUSSIAN MANIFESTO

PETROGRAD, June 21

The military union of women volunteers in a manifesto to the people to work appeals to them .to struggle against the enemy whose enslaved tendencies were antagonistic to Russia’s revoluntionary ideals. Another appeal to the Allies not to condemn Russia hastily as she is overabsorbed in the consolidation of new liberties.

t Malylakos leader of the cadet party in the Duma, has been appointed Ambassador at Paris.

COPENHAGEN, June 21 Swedish papers report that Qdier was recalled -o Rotterdam.

A BIG BATTLE.

COPENHAGEN, June 21st.

Tho Kolyntsche Zeitung’s correspondent says :—A battle of extraordinary magnitude ha s begun along the whole front of Sugana Valley to Asiago. RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. . LONDON, June 22. Mr O’Grady, speaking at Queen's Hall, said tho ©x-Czar reaction**!— will be publicly tried. M. Kerensky informed him that a document dam?d 15th March, was discoverel, assenting to separata, peace. : i A RAILWAY STRIKE. PETROGRAD, June 21. Rail way men on the Petrograd Moscow railway have struck without waiting for the award of tho commission, which is considering their economic grievances. The Government has appealed to the people to remain calm in view of a possible extension of th® strike.

A RUSSIAN’S VIEW. (Received. This Day at 8.50. a.m.) . ' WASHINGTON, June 21. M. Bakhmetieff, head of tho Rus- * sian Mission, made a statement of the ' revdlution’s .achievement, jto be reflected in the laws enacted! by the Constitutional Assmbly which will be convoked as soon os possible. 1 ~ Government atfe straightening out thedisorganisation and all branches of , the State are rewirganising, in the full, . ' raw \ material, food transport had financial departments. Government * unqualifiedly rejects thoughts of a separator peace and aims at the most prompt achievement of universal , peace, i with no dominion over other nations and no seizure of their property. It wants, peaoe without annexations am* n o contributions, but based on a nation’s free choice of its own destinies.. Tho defeat of Russia and her Allies would be the greater misery. Thereeannot be a stable peac© until Goman autocracy and tyranny is destroyed,