RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1916, Page 5

RUSSIA.

.THE CABINET. 'REORGANISATION FOR VICTORY. * • * London, jDeceinber 17. The Observer's Pctrograd correspondent says tiiat M. Pekrovskv, who was appointed the day after Herr von Tietli-mann-Hollweg's is honest and hard-working. Hi won rounds of applause in the Duma by his emphatic rejection of the German advances. Although the demand for a, Cabinet enjoying public confidence has not yet been granted, opinion is expressing itself with growing firmness and striking unanimity. The whole country frrini top to bottom insists on reorganisation, for victory, hence the denunciation of the dark forces or irresponsible influences which are- regarded as the chief obstacle to the complete fusion of the Government %ith the nation. Even the reactionary association of nobles,, which in lfll'o denounced the summoning of the has now ousted for itself the executive, overruled the previous decision as cabled, and demanded a -Cabinet of confidence, tut, from its standpoint of to autocracy, the association recommended that the Cabinet should 'be responsible to the Czar..

It must be noted that all the resolutions of various bodies recently cabled and the concentration of -widely divergent and formerly opposing groups represent a greater effort towards real victory than that leading to the formation of the War Cabinet in England. This was the situation on which the German peace propria happened to impinge. . , -