RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMAN OFFENSIVE. CONSIDERED.. IMMINENT. Reuter Service. Received April IJ, 1.30 a.m. Petrograd, April 13. captured German army order recallofficers' Itave is regarded as indicating that a German offensive is imminent against the junction of ths Russian northern and western fronts. As a result of the exceptional snow luring the winter the rivers in Southern Russia are flooded, threatening the town* and villages with disaster.

ON THE DNEISTER. .

ARTILLERY ACTIVE. London, April 13. j» German official message says:—Russian artillery is active at Brody, on both . side* of the Dneister. THE CZAR ILL. SIGNIFICANT CORRESPONDENCE. t ' " • Berne. April 12. fh<> CfeSF*» suffering from acute „ tsthentt an( * refuses to leave the Cfcarevitch's bedside. Correspondence discovered in the Czar' 9 palaces show that members of European Royal families lately urged him to accede to popular demands for constitutional reforms in the interests of the - Allied cause. The Czar's response was sot cordial.

SOLDIERS AND WORKMEN. DEMAND AND REPLY. fieceivea April 13 9.50 p.m. Petrograd, April 12 A deputation from tlie anny has arHred and demanded the dissolution of the Workmen's Committee, declaring that It waa undermining discipline. M. Criedeke deplied that the committee wa» to secure the full promafee dj.'a damoeratie revolution.