DISEASE OF DISINTEGRATION
RUSSIA AT DEATH'S DOORA CORRESPONDENT'S VIEW. /Australian JJnd N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Mav 19. noon.) LONDON, May 18. The Dailv Express Petrograd correspondent states that it appears that only some dramatic stroke stamped with the vigorous personality of one man can save Russia from the disease of ineptitude and disintegration, which is overtaking her and threatening any moment to make the Russian Empire a mere episode in the annals of the past. Russia is at death's door. The agitation tor the publication of Russia's secret treaties is peculiarly significant in view ot the ministerial crisis. M. Plekanoff in a speech m the Duma says that if they publish their secret treaties they will destroy then obligations to their allies and evoke their enmitv and "we may find ourselves allied against our present allies.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 19 May 1917, Page 5
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