RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 21 May 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

A NAPOLEON WANTED.

EMPIRE THREATENED WITH

DISINTEGRATION

TREATIES WITH THE ALLIES.

DEMAND FOR PUBLICATION

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Associatiou)

"London, May 18.

The "Daily Express' " Petrograd cor-

,' respondent states that it appears that only some dramatic stroke stamped i with the vigorous personality of one man can save Russia from the disease of ineptitude and disintegration, which is overtaking her and threatening any i moment to make the Russian Empire *a mere episode in the annals of the jpast. Russia is-at death's door. Tie {agitation for the publication of Rus- ! sia'a secret treaties is peculiarly siginfi- [ cant in view of the Ministerial crisis, j M. FfckanofE, in a -speech in tha | Duma, said that if Russia published her secret treaties she will destroy her obligations to her ailieu and evoke tlieir enmity. She may find herself arrayed! | against her present allies.