EVEN MINISTER OF WAR PROGERMAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 4

EVEN MINISTER OF WAR PROGERMAN.

DENV^Ry Colo.. March 16. I "Emperor Nicholas is not a strong enough man to handle the affairs of Russia." . . „-■ ■ ".-,- -^- , Tliis was one ;of . the .reasons giyeh in Denver by Count Ilya Tolstoy for -the revolution.. in Petrograd and the abdication «f. Nicholas; . Count < Tolstoy said the Inpnarch had - -nob t the ■ power to ooVi- j trol .the people nor the ability ;: to handler the affair« of government. ' •• '-p "Uiiderlying' ihfc whole thing is tlie. , question ,of reaotionary. Ministers .and pro-German^ members 'in tho Cabinet. ) "Thejbe 1 is ample iproof of! this.' First, >i we.inayMConsider Sachomlinoff. the Miri: isteniof tWan, undoubtedly is proGerman and has been proven so. "As. Minister, of War he naturally had charge j of the army and munitions. His actions ' were ,' pro-German: ab all -times-.. ; ■•■•«• j "At one time, he eveivArent so far as. to ha-y.e. shells" manufacitured that ivere absolutely, of n6 use-to the Rwflsian gunsw /Anvinvestigation.' was >not eveii heldj.aior was the Minister reprimanded;, or punished., <. .; ':. * - <•- - ■-.; -.-•■■■• • "Theh there- is Sturmerj . who is not only ' pr-o-German, but has a distinctly German name*: -As Minister of Foreign Affaire - and resident of the Council of, Ministei's, he was pdw.erful and Mneldied his power in favor of- tihe Kaisei'. > The fighting •forces.: of Russia have- been demoralised by these anti- Allied 'Ministers; Since the fighting inr the Carpathians last year, when, 500,000 Germans were 1 :caj> tured,i''the 'Russiafl* . trOops-. -have" done nothing.; But. .thi& .revolution will change everything. Th& soldiers will»ki\o\v now that the Goyernmeuttis behind them aiid will fight witli renewed:; vigor. I ../■•'•-'''■'/