MINISTER FOR WAR LEAVES FOR THE FRONT.
ANNOUNCES A RUSSIAN RETIREMENT IN ARMENIA. SUPREME TEST OF HIS INFLUENCE AND POWER. Australian and N.Z. Cable. (Receired 7 p.m.) LONDON, May "26. The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Chronicle writes: M. Kerensky, Minister for War, has gone to the front. His influence and power will now be put to the supreme test. Russia has unbounded confidence in M. Kerensky, believing that he alone can rescue the country from ruin and shame. He has completely won over the Council of Workmen and Soldiers Delegates to the necessity of defeating the enemy, but it would be unwise to base over-sanguine hopes on this. The improvement in the capital is not reflected in the army at the front. The pacificists! are not leaving a stone unturned to persuade the troops that they are fighting merely to extend the allies' wealth and possessions. One thing would defeat these intrigues, namely, a decisive reply from Britain and France. In a speech delivered before going to the front M. Kerensky publicly announced a Russian retirement in Armenia. He said Russia was not only in danger of losing Armenia, but possibly part of the Caucasus.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16550, 28 May 1917, Page 5
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