RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

WHO HOLDS THE POWER? THE NEXT FORTNIGHT WILL DECIDE. Received June 20, 5.6 p.m. Rotterdam, Juno I!). The Kolnische Zeitung reports that the Russian Minister of the Interior states the decisive hour of the revolution is at hand, and that the next fortnight will reveal with whom the real power lies. M. THOMAS OPTIMISTIC. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE INDICATED. | Received June 20, 5.5 p.m. Copehuagen, Juno 10. Thomas, tho French Minister for Munitions, has arrived from Petrograd, On toeing interviewed, he said that in a few weeks Germany would no longer lie able to reckon on the present quiet at the Russian front. M. Thomas predicts that Russia, after the war, will be divided into federal States !n order to. fulfil the different racial desires* A PATRIOTIC CAPTAIN. SOCIALISTS GET A REBUFF Reuter Service. Received June 20, 5.5 p.m. London, June 19. The Secretary of the Socialist Party wrote to Captain Kalinaky, commanding the Russian cruiser Sskold, asking him to convey Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald and party. Captain Kalinsky replied that the officers had unanimously decided it wag their duty only to act in, accordance with the Provisional Government's orders, and that he does not desire to carry deputies favoring immediate peace. ANARCHISTS DEALT WITH. Received June 21, 1 a.m. Petrograd, June 20. Fifty anarchists, with three machine guns, established themselves in buildings in a populous centre of the town. Two companies of >'Guards and Cossacks surrounded the buildings and compelled the surrender of the anarchists, who were 6ent to gaol. ' . GERMAN AIR RAID AT RIGA. Petrograd, June 20. Five German hydroplanes flew over the base at the Riga front and dropped forty-one bombs on the sheds, ships and batteries unsuccessfully. The hostile sraft were driven off by coast batteries, which for several successive days have brilliantly reputed a number of fruitless airship attacks.