SITUATION IN RUSSIA
GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE ON
ANNEXATION
MILIUKOFF AND THE SOCIALISTS
(AOSIRAUAN-IJBIf ZEAI,AND CABIB -ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 11th April. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent, explaining the Government attitude on annexation, especially of Constantinople, states that the question came to the forefront as the result of M. Miliukoff's statement of his personal view that Austria should be disinteg-. rated, and Russia should annex Constantinople. The Socialists were thrown into a ferment, and the position became so serious that the .Government was compelled to disclaim annexation.
At a congress of the Cadet Party, the ablest and" best-organised association in Russia, a resolution was passed in support of the Government's statement. The veteran leader, M. Rodicheff, emphasised the Russians' obligations to the Allies, and said : " Those sneering at the annexation of Constantinople should <remember that the Allies had made tremendous sacrifices on behalf of our interests in Constantinople. Thousands of British and French soldiers were buried for Russia's sake in Gallipoli, and we do not want the Allies to say that they gave their sons and brothers at ■ Gallipoli merely to satisfy a Russian whim."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1917, Page 7
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181SITUATION IN RUSSIA Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1917, Page 7
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