RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA.

TH? FINANCIAL POSITION. PROHIBITION" OF VODKA BENEFICIAL. l'etrograd, August 2. .M. Bark, 'Minister of Finance, said that notwithstanding the enormous expenditure Russia had succeeded not onl\ in deriving the necessary resources from the national wealth, but had filled the gap due to the stoppage of the sale of alcohol. The war expenses for 101.") would reach 7242 million roubles (72."i million sterling). The Government proposed a series 01" credit operations, of which the success is undoubted, because the total national savings bad increased by 18((0 million roubles (1 SO million sterling), which proved that the country's resources were adequate to carry out these operations. Their resources ought to be entirely attributed to the people's temperance. He insisted that this beneficent and salutorv prohibition ought to be maintained after the war.

NO ILL-FEELING SHOWN, SOLIDARITY OF THE ALLIES. Received August 3, 10.50 p.m. London, August 3. Count Renekeiulorf, the Russian Ambassador, interviewed, stated that it had I'MMi -aid that the Russian public hoped for a strong offensive on the west while the Hermans are making- their on&et in Roland. This may he so, but there is not a traee of ill-feeling manifested, and a sober view, which considers only the military possibilities, allava such if it has prevailed. 'Nowhere has the colossal effort Britain and France are making .at the Dardanelles been more appreciated than in Russia, and the temporary re (real in Roland Ims in no way affecte< the solidarity of the Alliea.