RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 April 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SITUATION MORE-HOPEFUL i . SOLDIERS RECOVERING DISCIPLINE Received April 1, 5.5 pjii. I

. Petrograd, March 31. The outlook is daily more hopeful. The soldiers' deputies at Moscow refuse to participate in any demonstration unless *' le .V are guaranteed that there will be no banners inscribed "Down witli the war."

The regiments are recovering their | perfect discipline, and although the sol- [ diere, rejoicing in their new citizenship;' |5 ifrnfliw o salute their officers in the hey preserve perfect formality |«nen on parade. ■. - • ~ - -a

THE POLISH GOVERNMENT.

LEFT TO CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY.

' ..eeeived April 1, 5.5 pja. iPetrograd, March 31'.. , The Government has issued a proclamation stating that t'ho, Poles themselves will determine the form of their Government at a constituent assembly based on universal suffrage. ■MINISTERS AT THE FRONT. Australian Cable Association. Received April 2, 1.30 a.m. iPetrograd, March 31. The whole Government has gone to the headquarters at the front.

PALESTINE. i ■ "if: TURKISH .FICTION. AN IMAGINATIVB REPORT, "l Received April 1, 5.5 p.m. London, March 31. A Turkish communique gives an imaginative description of the fighting during March 28-27 at Gaza. After claiming a brilliant victory it states that the British left numbers of dead when they retired and were pursued. i EAST AFRICA. . REORGANISING THE FORCES. ADMINISTERING THE CAPTURED TERRITORY, GERMANS GOING SOUTHWARDS. Received April 1, 11*30 p.m*. i London, April 1. The War Office states that the rainy season has suspended extensive operations in East Africa. Opportunity has been taken to reorganise the forces, to exchange and relieve units, to perfect the transport system and to reconstruct the railways. The whole German territory north of the central railway is being civilly administered, and has rapidly settled down. A small party of wandering Germans was captured on the slopes of Kilimanjaro on March 25. The principal German force remains south of Rußj, with its outposts in contact irith our columns.

There is more activity in the western area, where the German columns, going southward, engaged the Rhodesians and Nyassalanderß north and s north-east' of Lake Nyassa. ...,..,