HC Deb 11 June 1918 vol 106 cc2020-1
4. Mr. LEES-SMITH

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information to the effect that a new government has made its appearance in the Don country under the dictatorship of General Krasnoff, who led the anti-Soviet forces after the October Revolution, and that he has issued a Proclamation stating that he is fighting in alliance with the Austro-Germans?

Lord R. CECIL

I have no information beyond that which has appeared in the news transmitted through the Russian wireless stations. This substantially corresponds to the report mentioned by the hon. Member.

Mr. LEES-SMITH

Does not this indicate that the Soviet Government is the only real anti-German force in Russia now?

Mr. SPEAKER

We can all draw our own inferences.

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