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Help our glorious troops by subscribing to a war loan paying 5 1/2%. Imperial Russian Soldiers in a snow-covered trench, rifles at the ready.  War Bond Postcard dated October 15, 1916.
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Всто должны помогать нашимъ славнымъ войскам и кто можетъ долженъ подписаться
на 5 1/2%
ВОЕННЫЙ ЗАЕМЬ.

ESPO should help our glorious troops, and those who can should subscribe
5 1/2%
War Loan.

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October 15, 1916

Help our glorious troops by subscribing to a war loan paying 5 1/2%. Imperial Russian Soldiers in a snow-covered trench, rifles at the ready. War Bond Postcard dated October 15, 1916.

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Всто должны помогать нашимъ славнымъ войскам и кто можетъ долженъ подписаться

на 5 1/2%

ВОЕННЫЙ ЗАЕМЬ.



ESPO should help our glorious troops, and those who can should subscribe

5 1/2%

War Loan.



Reverse:

ОТКРЫТОЕ ПИСЬМО

Open Letter



15-X-1916

October 15, 1916

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Tuesday, October 17, 1916

"'The food problem,' [Trepov] said, 'has certainly become very worrying; but the opposition parties misuse it to attack the government. I'll tell you frankly what the position is. In the first place, the crisis is far from being general; it attains serious proportions only in the towns and certain rural areas. But it is true that the public is nervous in certain cities, Moscow for example. On the other hand, there is no shortage of food, except certain products which we used to import from abroad. But the means of transport are inadequate and the method of distribution is defective. . . .'

'There is now a deadlock on the Russian front, from one end to the other,' [Wrangel] said. 'You must not expect any further offensive on our side. In any case we're helpless against the Germans; we shall never beat them.'"

Quotation Context

Excerpts from the diary entry for October 17, 1916 of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, host of a farewell dinner for Japanese Ambassador Viscount Motono who had been appointed Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs earlier in the month. The first speaker is Russian Minister of Communications Trepov; the second General Wrangel, aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Michael, the brother of Tsar Nicholas II. Throughout the war Russian forces were frequently successful against both Austria-Hungary and Turkey, but not against Germany.

Source

An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. III by Maurice Paléologue, pp. 59, 60, publisher: George H. Doran Company

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1916-10-17, 1916, October, food, food shortage, transportation