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Show lri1l".UI. I I ml il 'I II iiBglSSII I illihllll I llll " B RUSSIA SADLY Government Sees Grave Danger Dan-ger of German Effort to Strike Decisive Blow. RESULT OF OLD REGIME Country Called on to Bend Entire Energies to Defeating Defeat-ing Enemy. PETROGRAD, April 10. via London, 2:45 p. m. The provisional government govern-ment has Issued a proclamation directing di-recting attention to the grave danger of a German effort to deliver a decisive deci-sive blow at Russia and the necessity of Immediately concentrating all of Russia's forces for the defeat of tho enemy. "The provisional government," says the provision, "feels that it has no right to hide the truth. The state Is in danger and it is necessary to employ em-ploy all our powers to save it. Tho old regime left Russia in a sadly disorganized dis-organized condition, especially in the matter of finance, food supply, transport trans-port and munitions. New Thrust Expected. "The provisional government will devote de-vote all its energies to repair the serious se-rious consequences of the old regime. The blood of many sons of the fatherland father-land has been shed freely in the course of these two and a half long years of war, but the country still is capable of a powerful blow at tho enemy who occupies whole territories of our state and is now in the days of the birth of Russian liberty threatening us with a new and decisive thrust. "Tho defense, cost what it may, of our national patrimony nnd the deliverance deliv-erance of the country from the enemy who invades our borders, constitute the vital problem before our warriors who are defending the liberty of the people in close union with our allies. "Tho government deems it to be its duty to declare now that free Russia does not aim at the domination of other nations, at depriving them of their national patrimony or at occupying occupy-ing by force foreign territories, but that Its object Is to establish a durable dura-ble peace on rights of nations to decide de-cide their own destiny. Russia Not for Subjugation. "The Russian nation does not lust after the strengthening of its power abroad at the expenso of other nations. na-tions. Its aim is not to subjugate or humiliate anyone. In the name of tho higher principles of equity it has removed re-moved the chains which weighed upon the Polish people, but the Russian nation na-tion will not allow its fatherland to come out of the great struggle humiliated humili-ated and weakened In Its vital forces. These principles will constitute tho basis ba-sis of the foreign policy of the provisional provi-sional government which will carry out unfailingly the popular will and safeguard safe-guard the rights of our fatherland while observing the engagements entered en-tered into with our allies. State Is in Danger. "Tho provisional government of free Russia has no right to hide the truth. The state is in danger. Every effort must be made to have It let tho country coun-try respond tothe truth when it Is told, not by sterile depressions and not by discouragement, but by unanimous unani-mous vigor with a view to creating a united national will. This will give us new strength for the struggle and will procure our salvation. sal-vation. In this hour of rude trial lot tho whole country find in Itself strength to consolidate the liberty won and devote untiring labor for tho welfare wel-fare of free Russia. (Signed) "LVOFF, president of the council." |