RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 8 June 1917, Page 7

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.

"The fear of a return of the Romanoils is very strong," says Dr. Harold Williams, a New Zcalanders who is Petrograd conrespondent to the London Daily Chronicle, "Some members of the family, particularly the Grand Dukes Michael, Nicholas, and Cyril, are winning a ctrtaln popularity by giving interviews and making frank disclosures The Grand Duke Cynil has resigned his command of the Marine Guards, making a simple and effective speech on the occasion. The Grand Duke Nicholas aroused cheers in Tiflis by saying i n 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 a monarchy. If, under the Provisional Government, Russia thrives 'without a monarch, the Chances will be heavily in favour of a republic. Petrograd and Moscow are now predominantly republican, but what the rest of Russia thinks thene is no means of judging, and an important factor in the question is the attitude of the Eastern subject peoples." The Times correspondent dealing with the

same subject, says a Russian friend put the matter to him in this way: "Let ail the Romanoffs go to England Their absence will enable the Constituent Assembly to deliberate with greater freedom, and if it decides to elect one of them to the throne tlnvo will be nothing to proven t his return."