RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE CONSTITUTION. ANARCHY ELEMENTS MUST fit* , SUPPPSSED. London, Marqh 80, 11 The Petrograd correspondent of tiki Morning Post considers it unlikely that there will be any radical change in the jßussian constitution during the war pa« riod. Probably it will remain under ju* dicially correct forms until the Conithtucnt Atidcmbly can be .established. T&ji is impossible before victory, thus BtW» fiiun soldiers and sailors know that tuey arc fighting for something definite home. The Germans doubtless feel ttik weight of Russia's new war spirit. i The correspondent, however, pointi' out. < the necessity of the Government sup* pressing certain forces of anarchy tiuA ■ have recently been, too prominent, ,

Paris, March 20. ■ The Petit Parisicn's Petrograd corre* ' spondent reports an interview with A Miliukoff, who gftld that Russia, irt I few hours, had overthrown the tynmMi . cal power which was incapable of s£ curing the people's food or organising tßs } nation's strength to vanquish the Wietaji ' -. The Provisional Government - would us* ' all its energy to secure a speedy victor*. Immense problems were' ahead, ineltot* ing complete political reconstruction. Stockholm, March ■■>. The Finnish newspaper Kaiku reports a revolution at Helsingfors on IViday. ' The military deposed the police and wprk and traffic was stopped, The soldiers ' on Saturday walked through the streets ' carrying red flags, and offered them to officers. Many who refused them were shot. Fourteen naval officers were killed. ' The revolutionaries arrested the Governor and military commander at Vivorg. Many Finnish Governors have resigned.