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 of food; sometimes also there were regular distributions that were made on a large scale to the extent of hundreds of litres. It seems that the quantities of alcohol thus introduced in the Russian lines was sufficient in some cases to permit the establishment of regular little stocks, which, at the time of our visit, had not become quite exhausted. In a certain sector of the south-west some of the liquor which had been thus obtained from the Germans was offered to us. It was excellent.

The demoralizing propaganda carried out by the Germans on the Russians, especially since the Revolution, is most formidable. Daily, enormous quantities of literature are thrown from aircraft above the Russian lines. We have been told that these pamphlets are written in correct colloquial Russian, whilst on the other hand we were shown pamphlets of propaganda, prepared by the Russians and the other Allies for the German lines, which