ment people stopped attacking them he would be
the first to pull down the Bolsheviks. He went
into the occupied provinces during the German
evacuation of them, to buy arms and ammunition
from the German soldiers. Prices, he said, ran
low. You could buy rifles for a mark each, field
guns for 150 marks, and a field wireless station for
500. He had then been made Commandant of
Petrograd, although there had been some talk of
setting him to reorganize transport. Asked how
long he thought the Soviet Government could hold
out, he replied, "We can afford to starve another
year for the sake of the Revolution."

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