RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA.

INCREASED OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS. RUSSIA MUST AND WILL CONQUER. ENEMY CANNOT ESCAIPE. Petrograd, November 10. Amid great enthusiasm in the Duma, the War detailed the enormous increase in Russia's output of munitions since the beginning of Ifi]especially in light guns, rifle? and shells. In certain cases the output had increased fortyfold. He declared: ''We must and shall conquer. No power on earth is capable of conquering Rusia. Not only is the army waging war, but the whole Russian people—men, women, girls and boys being engaged in manufacturing munitions. The enemy's alleged shattering b'ows have.come to nought. He is caught, and cannot escape." The Minister of Marine was surrounded by cheering members when he declared that the war must be waged to (he end. M. Roditclieff added that the Duma desired nothing else. It had only assembled to further t?>»i object. The Czar, in a telegram to the Council of State, thanked the Council for its unanimous decision to sacrifice everything for the sake of final victory. WILL FIGHT TILL VICTORY WON. ABSURD PEACE RUMORS DENIED. Paris, November 10. The Russian Premier telegraphed the Ambassador at Paris denying the absurd rumors ot secret Russo-Germau negotiations with a view to a separate peace. •'Russia," he added, "intends to fight the common enemy unfalteringly alongside tin. l Allies tili the final victory. No hostile intrigue would weaken Ruga's irrevocable decision." A NEW PERIL, The Times' Petrograd correspondent states that M. Maklakov, speaking in the Duma, declared that it was anomalous that though everything was favorable at the front and at the munition factories, and, owing to the military exhaustion of Germany, it was evident that we were nevertheless confronted with a new peril, consisting of a change of spirit in Russia, where certain other currents had set in, some daring to speak of peace, others exhibiting despair. M, Rozianko, who has been re-elected President of the Duma, expressed the belief that the same harmony would prevail, that there would be an absence of party barriers, and that a spirit of mutual confession would animate the proceed'ings. The correspondent adds: "The Premier's circular note contradicting the rumors of a separate peace is regarded as a reply to M. Nalakov's speech."