RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FORTHCOMING OFFENSIVE. COLOSSAL PREPARATIONS. ALL RUSSIAN ARMIES TO OPERATE. Received -March 7, 10.45 p.m. London, March 7. The Berliner Tageblatt insists that colossal military preparations are going forward, and that immense quantities of Sims and munition!) are being concentrated on the Russian front. It is announced that all the Russian armies will open a simulfanoons offensive .shortly. It believes that the Germans and Austrian* on the Eastern front will be very sorely tried. REGENERATING INDUSTRY AND TRADE. ENGLISH CAPITAL WANTED. Petrograd, March 6. jI. Sazanoff, presiding at the Anglo> Russian Chamber of Commerce, emphasised the need of a. Russian mercantile marine. It was grotesque that half a u-.illion tons sufficed for a nation of 170 millions. English capital was needed to regenerate Russian industry and trade which had hitherto been strangled by the German octopus.

CANADA -MILITIA ACT TO ?E ENFORCED. Ottawa, March C. It Sb semi-officialiy announced that the Militia Act will be enforced in April, calling out 50,000 unmarried men from 20 to 47, the apportionment proposed having- regard to' what the various provinces have contributed to voluntary enlistment. The first 60,000 will be trained tor 18 months and be subject to service overseas if the war continues.