INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1917, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

I - STREET FIGHTING. » —— t A HUNDRED WOUNDED. - (United Service Telegrams.) (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) LONDON,"JuIy 19. ' A thousand Kronstadt mutineers are terrorising Potrograd. There is much mixed fighting. Decisive fighting between local troops nnd the mutineers is imminentA hundred persons were wounded and a number killed on Wednesday. A BLOW IN THE BACK, PETROGRAD, July 18. M. Kerensky described the. retirement of the Cabinet Ministers as a blow in tho back for Free Russia, ami menacing the success of General Brusiloff’s offensive. STRONG PRECAUTIONS. (Router’* Telegramb.) (Received, This -Day at 8.50. a.m.) PETROGRAD, July 19. Government forces are bivouacking in Winter Palace Square with cannon posted. *. A GALLANT LEADER. \ PETROGRAD, July 39 During (ho last attack, M. Kerensky, dressed as'a private, With a reel shoulddor scarf as his only distinction, went' over th<‘. top with the first wave, a ro volver in liis hand. Tho men followed Kerensky unhesitatingly. It was a miracle he was not killed. INTERNAL DISSENSION. /Received This Detent 12.25. p.nt.) PETROGRTD, July 19. During the disturbances, armed troops and..workmen arrested the Minister of Agriculture. Ho did not realise it until he had listened to the speech leading Maximalist. After the moeting the Soldiers and Peasants’ Committee made j the announcement that the;Pan-Russian | Congress to consider the transfer of I (he whole governing power to the 'Soldiers’ and Workmen’s Committee would be held a fortnight hence at Moscow in order to prevent interference by the irresonpisble part of the Potrograd garrison. Subsequently an extraordinary Cabinet Council discussed the transfer of toll seat of the Provisional Government a(. Moscow. Hie Kronstadt mutineers remain in Potrograd, but there is evidence that they are becoming disillusioned of tho prospects of their coup. RUSSIAN NEWSDISORDERS’ QUELLED. Received this day at, 2.36 p.m.,) LONDON, July 19. Tho Daily Chronicle’s Potrograd correspondent despatched to the Vatican stating Nicholas is again manifesting mental infirmity and must be winched day and Jigilit to prevent threatened attempts at suicide. [‘"KEUTER’b” TELEGRAM.] NEW YORK, July 19. It is estimated there were five hundred casualties at Potrograd. The disorders Have Ween quelled.