. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. A Story of the War. but would not concede the sinking of one battle-ship, two battle cruisers and smaller craft reported|V bj^ the British. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Revolution Betrays Russia. German machinations rendered the Russian mil-itary organization worthless, corrupted the govern-ment, paralyzed the energies of the land andbrought the country to the verge of famine. Fam-ine brought on the revolution. German spies pois-oned the minds of the multitude, enlisted the baseand criminal in their service, caused them to betraythe country and
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. A Story of the War. but would not concede the sinking of one battle-ship, two battle cruisers and smaller craft reported|V bj^ the British. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Revolution Betrays Russia. German machinations rendered the Russian mil-itary organization worthless, corrupted the govern-ment, paralyzed the energies of the land andbrought the country to the verge of famine. Fam-ine brought on the revolution. German spies pois-oned the minds of the multitude, enlisted the baseand criminal in their service, caused them to betraythe country and thus put Russia out of the war. The winter of 1916-17 was one of much suffer-ing in Russia. All the ordinary currents of life hadbeen interrupted by the war. The millions of bush-els of wheat, by the sale of which the people livedbefore the war, were denied a market. Food wasscarce in the cities because the distribution system,like everything else, had broken down. The ma-chine was working badly because too many Teu-tonic agents w^ere throwing sand into the bearings. The duma
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