RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 10 August 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PROGRESS IN THE CHOTIN SECTOR. LONDON, August 8. A Russian official message reports: In the region of the confluence of the Zbruch and the Dniester, wc captured the villages of Barychkovcy and WTynoda and heights westward of the lastnamed village. We repulsed attacks north-westward of the Sereth, in Moldavia. The enemy occupied two heights westward of Dzemkne and southward of Sotchi. We retired eastward on both sides of the Kimpolung road, in the southern Bukowina, while tlie enemy pressed us back northward of Bisigestchi. A VALUABLE SEIZURE. ARCHIVES OF THE SECRET POLICE. REMARKABLE, REVELATIONS EXPECTED.

PETROGRAD, August 8,

The Government have secured the archives of the secret police, which promise remarkable revelations. BETTER NEWS FROM THE FRONT. PETROGRAD, August 8. The latest advices from the front have greatly heartened the population and there is confirmation of the satisfactory rallying of troops in various sectors. KERENSKY’S WAR CABINET. PETROGRAD, August 9. Kerensky intends to form a War Cabinet, including Terestchcnko, Nekrashoff, Avksentiff and Savinkoff. It will meet daily. The Generalissimo will attend when available. THE RUSSIAN CAE NET. A MEMBER REINS f A TED. Received 8.40 a.m. PETROGRAD, August 9. The Minister of Justi;o announced that the charges agiinst Tchcrnoff were baseless and he has resumed his former post, ; n the Cabinet.

RUSSIA’S ULTIMATE Received 11.10 Mr Elihu Root, who recently returned from a mission to Russia, has told President Wilson that a republic will unquestionably eventuate in Russia.