RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 8 October 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

UNHAPPY RUSSIA. RAILWAY MEN CEASE WORK. Received 8.55. PETROGRAD, Oct T. The railway men, in view of the Government’s slowness in dealing with their demands for increased wages, have caused a cessation of all traffic excepting munitions and military trains, despite Kerensky’s appeal not to increase the misfortunes of' the country. AN OPTIMISTIC OPINION. Received 8.55. WASHINGTON Oct 7. 3 The Russian Embassy believes the coalition offers every assurance that it will be effective, and policies carried out embracing Kerensky’s determined programme for the restoration of the army’s fighting pov/er. KERENSKY’S PATHETIC LETTER Received 8.55. NEW YORK, Oct 7. Kerensky writes to a friend that his consumption i s progressing better than the Russian revolution. He hopes * Russia will be liberated before he dies, and will develop into a real democracy from the present anarchy. THE DESPICABLE LUXBURG. BUENOS AYRES, Oct. 6. Luxburg (the Swedish Minister who acted as German spy) was secretly spirited out of the Argentine by the police. He rea'che'd Monte Video and boarded a Spanish steamer. A Spanish safe conduct protects his person, taut not his papers. Flight was the only alternative, the Argentine having demanded his immediate departure, BRITISH AIR REPRISALS. ALARM ON THE RHINE. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 5. A Zeppelin this week patrolled Rhenish towns. The people are being exercised in air raid drill. The}- have been ordered to extinguish lights and go into refuge shelters on the appearance of the Zeppelins. 1