RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

Government manifesto.

to be supported, Petrograd, Oct. 11. xht Government lias issued a manifeato jn which it says that the convocing Of the Constituent Assembly must not) he delayed. Meanwhile the Provisional Government will indefatigably work for universal peace, which is essential to Russia's reconstruction. The Russian delegates to the inter-allied conference at Paris will seek an understandtnf'With the Allies on the subject of the principles proclaimed by the Russian revolution. They include a special delegate enjoying the confidence of the democratic organisations. The Government will exert its whole fctrefegth to support the Allied cause, to ejtct the enemy from Russia, and 4s restore the fighting strength of the tfmy, . OFFICIAL MESSAGE. , London, Oct. 11. Wireless Russian official: In the Riga region .the enemy pressed back some of bur companies southward of the Pskov high road-/ and .attempted to fraternise wntth-easi of Jacobstadt. We captured the villages of Marufa and Tubal westward of Lake Urmia, reletting 200 Syrians. Tbe enemy fled acreis the Great Lab, destroying three bridges. £ TURKESTAN EXPEDITION.

Petrograd, Oct. 11. The punitive expedition has arrived at and arrested the revolutionary committee and governor, whom tne local Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' dS»gateg appointed.