RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

uERMAN WITHDRAWALS. gUSSIAN ENTHUSIASMS i __ , Bome, April 20. advices from Switzerland tt«e that the Germans have withdrawn in order to reconstruct them Advices from Petrograd state that activity has been resumed throughout th» .•eastern and southern fronts. General Alexieff reports enthusiasm everywhere for continuation of the,war. Work is being speeded up in all Russian military establishments, * the number of which pal been iicreased. COMPLETELY CONFIDENT. PRINCE LUOFF'S VIEWS. _ _., „ London, April 20., Ihe Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent interviewed Prince Luoff Who said: "Vfe regard the future- with complete confidence. The masses of the people support the democratic princl. pies which the Provisional defends. The peat majority of the working classes of Petrograd are now jKboring assiduously. The discipline of the army is gradually benig fully reestablished. Democratic Russia is toj conscious of her mission not to defend the results obtained with all her soul. We know Boumania's sufferings, and we Shave decided to do all that is possible fo assist her. The transport question to still .being attended wjth great diffi- . cujties. Under the old regime only four wagons daily were sent to Roumania to provision the army and civil population, but we are sending twenty-five wagons daily. After the war Roumania Will be able to prevent Germany again dominating her economic and political ►life.''

SATISFACTORY DEVELOPMENT. ■ AUSTRIA'S PEACE PROPOSAL. ■\ Beceived April 22, 5.5 p.m. *- \ United Service. London, April 21'. The situation in Russia is developing most satisfactorily, and there is little doubt 'but the Austrian peace advances .will be scornfully rejected. They synchronised with studied inactivity on the frtnt, which the Russian generals willingly accepted, while the peannt soldiers returned from villages ,wnence they rushed in large numbers •fter the revolution. The peasantry 4 f sre repudiating the Petrograd and Mcsieow extremists, and even the extremist papers are disowning the peace proposal*. The Government will pardon deserter* who return before May 14.