RIVEN RUSSIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9788, 11 October 1917, Page 5

RIVEN RUSSIA

COALITION CABINET FORMED KERENSKY PREMIER AND COM-MANDEE-IN-OHIBF. By Telegraph —Press Association —Copyright Renter's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, October 9. The new Coalition Cabinet lias been formed. It comprises six Socialists, of whom M. Kerensky is Premier and Commander-in-Ohief; eleven democratic and bourgeois representatives, including Terestchenko as Minister for Foreign Affairs, 'General Verkhousky as Minister for War, and Admiral Verderensky, Minister for Marine. Other Ministers are: M. Niketin (Interior and Posts and Telegraphs), M. Auksentieff (Agriculture), M. Govouzdev (Labour), and M. Bernatsky (Finance). HOLOCAUST OF SOLDIERS BILLETING THEATRE BURNED DOWN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z, Cable Association. (Received October 10, 7.20 p.m.) PETROGRAD, October 9. A wireless message states that a fire destroyed tho Panaieff Theatre where soldiers were billeted. There were hundreds of victims. AN OPTIMISTIC ORGANISATION remarkable pan-german RESOLUTION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 10, 7-20 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, October 9. The pan-Gorman Congress lias carried a resolution that Germany’s frontiers must be vastly extended oast and west. It declared that the military dtuation is excellent, and that the naval situation would soon force England to sign peace with Germany.