RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RETURN OF EXILED PATRIOT. Received June f), 12.5 a.m. Copenhagen, June 8. •Prince Kropotkin, the Russian patriot who was exiled for many years from Russia, has arrived at Bergen from England, en route for Russia at the Soldiers' and Workmen's invitation. A great welcome has been arranged. 11 Kerensky will receive Prince Kropotkjn on the frontier. EXPLOSION OF MUNITIONS. Copenhagen, June 7. There was a great accidental explosion at Petrograd, in which a large quantity of explosives just arrived from England and stored in the harbor were blown up. Many were killed. HINDENBURG VISITS EAST FRONT Rome, June 7. A Petrograd dispatch states that Hindrnbuvg and Ludewlorff have hurried to the Russian front to discover whether there are signs of a Russian offensive. A SETTLEMENT AT KROXSTADT. Petrograd, .Tune 7. The Kronstadt trouble, has been settled, the Kronstadt revolutionists agreeing to recognise the Provisional Government at Petrograd. AN EXTREMIST'S VIEWS. Petrograd, June 7. Tn an interview, M. Kschcidzc, president of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council, said the democrats can best help Russia and the democratisation ofr the world by endeavoring to end the war as soon as possible. If America can best bring pressure by fighting Germany i let America send armies. We look at everything in the world from the viewpoint of the revolution, and the revolution's success denends on the war soon ending. Tho basis of peace must he no annexation and no indemnities, with the small peoples having a voice in their disposition. General Alexieff, interviewed, said he had done everything possible to streng- ' then the army. He prayed God would i save Russia. While order and discipline reigned in the army Russia would coni tinue to exist. General Gutor, the youngest general I in the army, succeeds General Brusiloff ' in -the south-west. The chief danger now is not the army, " but • the remote rural districts, where i many clergy are fomenting a counteri revolutionary movement, saying that ' the revolution was born of Satan. Many > agitators accuse the 'Provisional Gov- • ernment of desiring to shut the churches ' and destroy the ikons. The anarchists ' are urging the peasants to seize lands and cut down foiestft-