Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — RUSSIA PLANS TO QUIT [ARTICLE]

RUSSIA PLANS TO QUIT

NATION WORN OUT, SAYS PREMIER KERENSKY. Claims Right to Leave War Burden on Allies, Asking “Where Is British Fleet?” Petrograd, Nov. 2. —Russia entered the war early and she is now worn out by the strain, Premier Kerensky told the press. • The premier said that Russia claims as her right that the other allies now should shoulder the burden of the war. Premier Kerensky declared that Russian public opinion was agitated by the question: “Where is the British fleet now that the German fleet is out in the Baltic?" Petrograd, Nov. 2.—Another withdrawal of German troops on the northern Russian front is in progress, the war office announces. In an attack on Turkish vessels at Inada bay, on the Black sea, near the Bosporus, Russian torpedo boats sank a Turkish torpedo boat and destroyed two Turkish steamers and a naval battery in the bay, the war office announced.