INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1917, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

MORE RUSSIAN TROUBLE. THE PEOPLE UNSETTLED. (Received This Dav at 11.25. a.m.) PETROGRAD, July 19 Political situation is disturbed? The Executive Council is discussing the re* organisation of Government. It is .believed. There tolls will become Premier, \ 'Hie Proletariat in Petrograd is hostile to Governmnt and distrusts the executive of the Soldiers and Workmen. It is feared an extensive strike is imminent-. Workers at Putioff works are standing all night outside Taufrian Palace. Government have taken measures to prevent bloodshed. A SHARP DEMONSTRATION SOON FIZZLES OUT. (United Service Telegrams.) (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) PETROGRAD, July 18. Tho demonstration began in the inter non. Motor lorries bristling with machine guns and manned! by Maximalist agitations, parading the strori*. The population at first kept in deo -s but later emerged and watched the demonstrations curiously. Somo regiments yielding to the i orsuasion of the Maximalist- left their barracks ‘in the evening, carrying,. arm*, contrary to orders'. One regiment marchod to Nevsky Prospect evidently going -to -ho Lima. Suddenly shots wer 0 fired and the regiment and population bolted to cover ficm whence tho soldiers began a vvihl fu.vlade until thtfr magazine were cn,ptied. They abandoned tb -> u.arcii to th© Duma and ref i Tied quctly t° the barracks. In twenty minutes the c>f> wore its m ternary aspect. Meantime, four motor lorries filled with armed soldiers and sailors of the Maximalists, dashed to Warsaw station with tho intention of preventing M. Kerensky from going to the front. They found ho had already departed. Another party seized the offices of tho Novoe Vromya, and compelled the compositors to type a proclamation, calling on the peoplo’to appear in the streets armed, and demanding the overthrow of the Provisional Government, and the seizure of the land, factories, and other sources of production. A SERIOUS POSITION. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) PETROGRAD, July 18. Tli© Ministry is discussing the questin of reorganisation and the All Russian Soldiers and Workmen committee executive is considering the situation. Masses of workers were standing all • Jght round the building, the executive and Government collaborating tranquilly while tho crowds were endeavouring on armed action-