RUSSIA’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 29 March 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS

FIRST DANGER IS PAST. IMPORTANT REFORMS INTRODUCED. FOOD QUESTION IMPROVING. STARTLING RESULTS ACHIEVED. Received 9.55. LONDON, March 28. The Daily Chronicle’s Petrograd correspondent says reports from the front indicate the first danger of disorders is past, the troops entering into the spirit of the new .regime. The war office is pushing forward important reforms with great speed. The old regime offered almost insuperable obstacles, even to obvious necessities. Ideas, which were never lacking, a,ro now finding scope. Reforms aic now being carried out, which will immediately bring the army organisation into, line with that of the Allies. Transformation has already produced startling results. The work of combating German espoiuage is greatly simplified, and there is every prospect of an early solution of the food problem, in which the peasants arc co-operating. Reports from many centres announce that hoarded conn is hastening to the railway stations. Meanwhile many large towns are introducing rations. LEGAL TOR FINLAND. TOCKHOLM, March 28. Miliukoff announces the new Regime will give Finland complete autonomy and a legal constitution. Miliukoff adds that Sweden,, therefore, has nothing to fear from Russia, and there is nothing to prevent cordial relations being established.

The Bussian Government announces an amnesty has been granted to three thousand young Finns, who, desperate at seeing their country oppressed by Czarism, entered the German army.