RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. NAVAL OPERATIONS, London, June 27. Russian official: Southward of Brzany tne enemy forced his way into our trenches. A counter-attack compelled the enenjy to retire. There is intense enemy Rrtillery aettivity in the region# of Poututory, Ribnik, and Koto v. ■ We .repulsed ft Kurdish attack south' eastward of Erzingan. We occupied trenches at the Abishirvan river. The cruiser 'Bresiau bombarded, on June -?o, the radio station and lighthouse, on Fidonish Island. Our warships pursued the Bresiau to the Bosphorus. AT LOGGERHEADS. GERMANS AND AUSTRIAN 9. Received June 28, 8.50 p.m. Potrograd, June 2fi. The Nord Sud .Agency reports that the inclusion of German units among the Czechs, Ruthenians and Poles in order to keep them under pressure resulted in many sanguinary quarrels between the Austrians aiid -Germans. Russian artil' lery south of Brody fired on the Austrians who displayed a notice: "Do not make a mistake by firing on usl" while the German battalions wore hidden in a valley in th ■ rear. The guns were thereupon turned upon the Germans, who fled. Other points warned the Russians when the Germans were relieving them in the trenches or going to use gas, CIVIL WAR AVERTED. COUNTER REVOLUTION SQUASHED. Received June 28, B.SO p.m. ' London, June 28! The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent says civil war has again been averted. • The Leninites, seeking revenge for the humiliating defeat suffered at the All-Russia Congress of Workmen and Soldiers' Councils, spread alarmist rumors and raised cries of a counter revolution, and that a Cossack army wai coining. The Leninites called on soldiers and workmen to attend an armed demonstration against the Government. The congress discovered the plot, aftd strongly appealed to the workers and eoldiers to refrain from a demonstration. The congress moved motor lorries at 12 o'clock in the morning to Taurida p|lace for the sake of better telephoning facilities, and sat up all night long, maintaining contact with the Government, which had arranged with the commanders of the troops. Congress agents motored to the factories and barracks, and persuaded the workers and soldiers not to wreck tie revolution. They met with a friendly reception, and the danger passed. The crisis proved that the Socialists are rapidly learning,the- lesson of responsibility o ■—.ipi—i. * i FINNISH VOLUNTEERS FROM GERMANY. NOT ALLOWED TO RETURN, Received June 28, 8 p.m. Petrograd, June 28. Suspicion was aroused by the return to Finland of three thousand Finn volunteers from the German army. Their admission was prohibited, despite the protests of Finnish Socialists.