RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1724, 12 June 1917, Page 1

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.

“The fear of a return of the Romanoffs is very strong,” says Dr. Harold Williams, a New Zealander who is Petrograd correspondent to the London Daily Chronicle. “Borne members of the family, particularly the Grand Dukes Michael, Nicholas, and Cyril, are winning a certain popularity by giving interviews and milking frank disclosures. The Grand Duke Cyril has resigned hi.command of tin* Marine Guards, making’ a simple and elleclive speech on the occasion. The Grand Duke Nicholas aroused cheers in Titlis by saying in a farewell speech; ‘After the war I want to retire to my estate as a private citizen.’ Many things may happen before the Constituent Assembly decides the question of a republic or :t monarchy. If, under the Provisional Government, Russia thrives without ;t monarch, the chances will be heavily in favour of it republic. Petrograd and Moscow are now predominantly republican, but what the rest of Russia thinks (here is no means of judging, and an important factor in the question is the altitude of the Eastern subject peoples." The Times correspondent, dealing with the same subject, says it Russian friend put the matter to him in this way: “Let all the Roma noil’s go to England. t heir absence will enable the Constituent Assembly to deliberate with greater freedom, and it it decides to elect one of them to the throne there will be nothing to prevent his return.”