THE RUSSIAN SITUATION
GERMAN MERCHANTMEN FOR RUSSIA. U-BOATS WILL SETTLE AMERICA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Jan. 2. 10.35 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 1. The Daily Kxpress' Petrograd correspondent says the Bolsheviks are now inclined to allow the Constituent Assembly to meet on Wednesday. Baron Kais"rling. a former naval attache at the German Kmbassy and aD old friend of the ex-Czar, who is attached to the Naval Mission, in an interview, admitted freely that Germany was feeling a pinch, but matters were not as bad as they were painted. There was a certain war weariness in German), but she was prepared to hold out for a long time if necessarv. America might be dangerous, but tlie U-boats would settle her. German merchantmen had now free access to Russian waters, and the People's Commissaries were taking precautions to givrantee them against British submarines. The first German commercial squadron is expected in time for the Russian Christmas.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13673, 2 January 1918, Page 5
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