ATTEMPTED REVOLT IN FINLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1917, Page 5

ATTEMPTED REVOLT IN FINLAND.

OFFICERS SHOT BY SOLDIERS.

Received Sept. 17, 7.30 p.m.

Copenhagen, Sept. 16. A ' telegram from Haparauda states that soldiers stormed the prison at Viborg and shot General Ovanoviki and otljjir officers who attempted to organise a revolt in Finland in favor of General Konulofi.

general kaledin. COSSACKS 'REFUSE TO ARREST HIM. Heuter Service. Received Sept. 17, 7.45 p.m. _ 'London, 'Sept., 16. The council of Don Cossacks refused to obey the order of the Government to arrest General (Kaledin, on the ground that Kaledin must attend the Cossack Conference to furnish explanations. The council also carried a resolution protesting against the charge that the Cossacks' sympathies are against the revolution and declaring that they have always Supported, the Government. i THE GERMAN ADVANCE. UNLIKELY TO (PASS DVINA. "LINE. Paris, Sept. 16, Colonel Chumsky, tho well-known Russian expert, points out that lack of man-power for the long line between the frontier and Petrograd is one reason why a march on Petrograd in improbable. Th§ Germans have only 200,000 men on the Riga front, and tho Russians opposing them are well equipped and undefeated. Demoralisation has been the only cause of the German advance. The weather also is against an extended inarch. Heavy guns cannot move more than three or four miles a day, and the autumn floods are coming on. Moreover, Dvinsk, Polotsk and Vitobsk must bo taken first. The enemy is thus unlikely to pass the Dvina line. It is impossible to capture the Russian fleet by a naval enterprise, as the land batteries are too powerful.