THE RUSSIAN STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1917, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN STATES.

THEIR 'POLITICAL -FUTURE. Renter Service. '"~ J Received July 2, 10 p.m. Petrograd, July 2. The Russian Soldiers' Congress passed a resolution to the effect that the Provisional Government should promulgate laws assuring the various Russian nationalities the right to dispose of their own political future, and proclaiming equal rights to all tongues, simultaneously retaining the Russian language officially. SUiHFRESSTNG A MUTINY. Petrograd, July 1. By order of M. Kerens-Icy, when the peace overtures failed, the 12th anil 13th Divisions of Sharpshooters, who refused to fall in, were surrounded and charged by the cavalry at the village of Jovkoff, after the village had twice heen shelled. The Sharpshooters stirrendered and were disarmed. TSS UKRAINE TROUBLE. iPetrograd, July 1. Before the revolution the movement in the Ukraine was largely anti-Russian, now the whole demand is for autonomy, and that troops shall fight under their own flag. It aims at federation, -with Russia. The agitation grows in strength and the leaders are refusing to await the Constituent Assembly. SOCIALISTS ON TOUR. - Received July 2, 5.5 p.m. (Petrograd, July 1. Golden'burg, Rosanoff, and Smirnoff, delegates from the soldiers, have started on a mission to enter upon pourparlers with all 'Socialist parties. They proceed firstly to Stockholm, and then to Britain, France, and Italy,