RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ANTI-REVOLUTION PLOT. SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE. Reuter Service. Received Sept. 3, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, Sept. 2. Newspapers state that an anti-revolu-tion plot was discovered at Petrojnad while the Moscow Conference was sitting. The leaders include well-known politicians and several officers. Several were arrested, mostly outside of gradENEMY SUCCESS NEAR RIGA. OTHER ATTACKS FAIL. Received Sept. 3, 10 p.m. London, Sept. 3. Wireless Russian official: The enemy crossed the Dvina. south-east of Riga, and occupied Rupfennammer. They developed their success northward"-. In connection with the enemy's offensive in the region of Mitau road a battle is proceeding. Enemy attacks in the direction of Kovel, Vladimir, Volynsk, Focgaui, and Braila failed. WHOLESALE DEFECTIONS. WHOLE FRONT SERIOUSLY IMPERILLD.

Times Service. Received Sept. 3, f1.45 p.m. London, Sept. 3. Mr. Wilton, the Times' correspondent in Russia, says the behaviour of the troops on the Riga-Rouman.an front, which is now seriously imperilled by wholesale defections, has destroyed any ebancc of the maintenance of the existing 7stem. General Korniloff has again urgently appealed to the Provisional Government for the immediate restoration of the pro-. gramme of reforms. SUPPORT FOR KORNILOFF. DISCIPLINARY MEASURES TO BE ADOPTED. Reuter Service. Received Sept. 3, 10 p.m. Petrograd, Sept. 3. The Provisional Government has issued a statement reiterating its confidence in General Korniloff, and announces the adoption of the disciplinary measures he stipulated for. The Government agrees that serious and energetic measures are necessary to re-establish the army's fighting capacity. There is no question of superseding General Korniloff. The War Ministry published particular* showing that the Ukraine separatist agitation -was due to an Au3tro-German organisation. RUSSIA'S UNPREPAREDNESS. DUE TO TREACHERY AT THE WAS OFFICE. Received Sept. 3, 10 p.m. Petrograd, Sept. 3. At tho trial of Sukholmlinoff, exllinister for War, M. Rodzianko said that the Duma before the war recognised SukholmlinofPs criminal slowness in tlic organisation of thi' army, and accused him after the outbreak of war of systematically resisting the Duma's efforts to stimulate the production of shells, notwiUistanding the appeals from the front, including those from the Grand Duke Nicholas. M. Rodzianko specially journeyed to Oalicia. What he saw thcie tiled him with terror. He dramatically indicted f>ukhomlinoff for the enormous losses suffered in the retreat, thence other political personages. The witness directly attributed Russia's unpreparedness to SukhomlinoiT. EKiGIN'E-DRIVERS STRIKE. Petrograd, Sept. 2. In consequence of the rejection of their demands the engine-drivers have decided to strike. The Government is taking the strongest measures. It has also commandeered corn supplies in the provinces near the south-went and Roumanian fronts, owing to the grave shortage of flour. The Dowager Empress is in seclusion ja Game*. *nd is avioofdx. tfb