RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ATTACKS REPULSED.

AIRSHIP DESTROYED.

April 1

A wireless Russian official message says:—We repulsed attacks in the Kirlibaba, Jacobicn, and Valeputna road regions. Our aeroplanes and gunfire burnt an airship in the Adobestchi region. Twenty-two of our aeroplanes bombed Braliov, causing fires.

STONES INSTEAD OF AMMUNITION.

A SWIFT RETRIBUTION

London, April 1. The Petrograd correspondent of the Sunday Times states that in General Russky's armies, which are holding the key to Petrograd, the regiments in the front trendies had for weeks only stones with which to reply to German grenades. Liberal newspapers circulated in the trenches opened their eyes to the identity of their betrayers, and the result was swift retribution upon the bureaucrats responsible. Meanwhile the revolution will substitute grenades and the best modern weapons for stones and cudgels. CROWN PROPERTIES ALISEDINDEPENDENCE OF POLAND. Petrograd, April 1. The Government has decreed that Crown properties, including more than a million square miles of cultivated lands and forests, and the Siberian gold shall revert to the nation. The Grand Dukes will no longer be paid grants.

The Government has issued a manifesto guaranteeing an independent Poland comprising all the provinces where the majority speak Polish. A Constituent Assembly, elected on universal suffrage, will settle the form of Government. The new State will be entirely independent of Russia, except in military matters. The manifesto urges all 'Poles to fight German oppression.

THE FINNISH GOVERNMENT.

Copenhagen, April 1,

M. Miliukoff states that the Finnish Diet will meet on Thursday in order to decide the form of Government in Finland.