RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RUSSIAN RETREAT CONTINUES REINFORCEMENTS COMPELLED TO GO SACK BAGGAGE TP»tvr ivy, STORES SEIZED. HOSTILITY AGAINST EXTREMISTS. Received July 29, 5.5 p.m. London, July 28. The Daily News' Petrograd correspondent reports that the retreat continues over a front of a hundred miles. The troops who behaved the worst were those who had been moot strongly reinforced from Petrograd. Some retired voluntarily after a successful fight, because the officers had been killed or wounded, and the simple soldiete fell under the influence of the extremists. The latter ii.sist that the bourgeois is the real enemy of the soldier, and 6ay that a counter revolution is In progress at Petrograd. So one regiment is persuaded and moves rearward, another follows it uud across the endless valleys of Galicia begins the elemental movement eastwards, destroying the communications and interrupting the supplies for the troops, who are still fighting, thus forcing them to join in the retreat. The flying mutineers seize the baggage trains, with the stores and munitions, and use them in order to travel back towards tho east. Thus the countryside that was won at the coat of a hundred battles will be wasted again.

The moving armies allow no signs of stopping their retreat. General Brusiloff's splendid positions, north-west ol Tarnopcl, have been thrown away, and if the Germans had been in great force, the retreat of the southern armies would have been cut off long ago. The Germans are, however, apparently disconcerted at the magnitude of the success, and it is likely that the enemy will soon halt as the result of fatigue and hunger. This may give the Russians time to arrest the retreat.

Hostility against the extremists is very strong in Petrograd. The Government lias demanded that the chief agitators at Kronstadt be handed over; otherwise Kronsta lt will be blockaded. The majority of the Kronstadt Council favors handing them over. Speaking on behalf of the Government, M. Kerensky said that he would give his solemn promise that any attempt to re-establish monarchal government would be kept down in a most decisive and energetic manner.

HOLDIMG ENEMY AT BAY. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received July 28, 8 p.m. London, July 28. A wireless Russian official message states: The enemy occupied Plotcyz and Pzstylov, northward of Tarnopol. We repulsed enemy attacks southwards of Tarnopol. Wc retired a short distance to new positions south-eastwards of Trembowla, and repulsed attacks northwards of Czortkov. We continue our easterly retirement between the Dneister and the Carpathians.

| MINISTERS FACILITATE RECONSTRUCTION. STRONG CENSORSHIP RE-ESTABLISHED. Received July 29, 11.50 p.m. Petrograd, July 29. Nearly all the Ministers have placed their resignations at M. Kerenaky'a disposal, to facilitate reconstruction. A stringent censorship has been re-estab-lished.

SUCCESS ON ROUMANIAN FK£NT. Aug. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received July 29, 5.5 p.m. London, July 28. A wireless "Russian official report states: Nothing material has occurred on the Galician front. The enemy somawhat pressed our detachment back eastward of Kirlibaba. The 'Roumanians continued the pursuit of the retiring enemy in the direction of Kezdi and Vasarsely and occupied the heights five versts south-west of the villages of •Monesteerkd, Kochinul, Dragoslavo, and Beresczi, and vook a battery. We advanced in the direction of Kalakul towards the Putna river, and occupied the village of Boduple, on the left bank of the river.

A REVOLT SUPPRESSED. Copenhagen, July 27. Extreme Socialists at Petrograd organised a great revolt. Government troops interfered, and violent street lighting occurred on Wednesday and Thursday. The revolt has been completely suppressed.

[ REINFORCEMENTS FOR G ALICIA. Washington, July 27. Dispatches to the Russian Embassy state that fresh Russian troops are being rushed to the Galiciau front to endeavor to hal„ the German rush past) Tsrnopol. The Russians are still victorious in the Smorgon-JKrevo sector. The State Department announces the receipt of an informal suggestion that the United States troops bo sent to to secure a beneficial psychological effect. No decision has been announced.

KERENSKY'S BRAVERY. London, July 27. The Berne correspondent of the Daily Express says that telegrams from Budapest state that Russian prisoners narrate that M. Kerensky was severely wounded in the arm on Lysons Hill, near Brzezany. An infantry division refused to fight, and the artillery, furious at their desertion, turned the guns on the deserters. M. Kerensky in his motor-car drove between the crossfire and succeeded' in stopping the fratricidal slaughter, but was wounded. The Austrian staff witnessed tiie scene through telescopes:

ESCAPE OF LENIN. New York, July 27. The United Press correspondent at Petrograd reports that Lenin escaped from his captors following a battle 'between .the Government agents and anar- , dusts at Tornea, where Mauame Kolontay, one of Lenin's most aTdertt aup- | porters, also Buapected of being a German agent* was arrested with a dozen 'alter