Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-19 | Page 2 | Declares Russian Condition due to War Exhaustion

DECLARES RUSSIAN CONDITION DUE TO WAR EXHAUSTION yr.SV YORK, Vec. IS. Kstimatin? Russian Rus-sian c'lsuaUii in thi"1 world war at "iK-r less than S.0h,(h)0 men. of whom 5.000, "00 were killed and about 1.000.000 disabled for life." A. J. irack. director or the Rus-inn Rus-inn information bureau, declared in an addross hef'T' the foreten commerce club lioi'e todiiv that 'Ilussia's present pitiful condition 'is due to Iter exhaustion from war." "Mk is lyinu in ft-ii? of Mood and tfnrs?." !'.e con t in nod. ";'!:d. furllier. :m"i-lions :m"i-lions of her peo:!e arc facing death, this time from nra tion. A bout " 0.000. 00 Knssians will die lids winter unless the allied countries render the tin fortunate country immediate help on a ver- pen-erous pen-erous srale. "llussia J'.as pacrificed millions of lier suns nnd nil her hanninefss to make thf triumrh of the allied use possible, and! at thlr' so'5 m n moment of victory the j thoughts of t!ie democratic nations should i )e devoted to Jviispia and they should not I feel any vijrht ti jov and happiness until I l-iU-sia " is made again great. free and 1 hapnv. i "After tile RoNhvik tyrannv :s crus'ced 1 and civic rights are ree sta blishcJ . the Russian pror'e will au'ain cnlt a ennstl-! tuent assembly, on the basis of universal, direct, equal and secret suffras". and the iisi-enibi v will define thft const it ution of t he s: ate and will solve K'lia's main social problems.