RUSSIA’S CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1917, Page 2

RUSSIA’S CRISIS.

RUSSIAN REPORT.

AUSTRALIAN <& N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

LONDON, October 17,

A wireless Russian official message says that the enemy pressed us back in the .direction of Moon island interrupjfing 'land communicat}ions between Oesel and Moon.' We tly lost touch with our forces in Oesel. An eye-witness reports that an enmy Dreadnought ran into a mine-field on Friday. After an explosion tli -> warship proceeded to the coast. He fate is unknown.

A. REMARKABLE SPEECH

GENERAL ALEXIEFF.

(Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 18th.

Ihe Morning Post’s Petrograd co> respondent says General Alexieff, in a remarkable interview, said he would not attend the Paris Conference, unless he was- enabled to speak on behalf of the fighting army. The war was a struggle between German and AngloSaxon races. The Russians aro only lay figures. England will never end the war without victory, and the ltter «x----haustion of Germany. The Americans entry had decided the issue, independently of Russia, whose weakness had merely postponed the victory. If Russia did not pull herself together, and put forward a real fighting Army, the issue for her will be lamentable. I think, if at the conference, our utter feebleness will be disclosed. Japan must enter upon the Russian stage of this European war. She will require compensation, and naturally the weakest must pay.