RUSSIA A LAY FIGURE.
ALEXIEFFS SAD CONFESSION. POSITION ACUTELY ANALYSED. LONDON, October 18. The 'Morning Post's' Petrograd correspondent reports that General Alexieff, in a remarkable interview, said he would not attend the Paris Conference unless he was enabled to speak on behalf of the fighting army. The war was. a struggle between tho Germanic and Anglo-Saxon races, and Russia was'only a lay figure. Great Britain, would never end the war without victory and the utter exhaustion of Germany. America's entry had decided the issue independent of Russia, whose weakness merely postponed victory. If Russia did not pull herself together and put forward her real fighting armv, the issue for her would be lamentable. He added: " I think if, at the conference, our utter feebleness was disclosed, Japan must enter upon the Russian.stage of this European war. She will require compensation, naturally, and the weakest must pay."
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Evening Star, Issue 16559, 19 October 1917, Page 3
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