26 October 1917. Alfred Knox

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Alfred Knox

Petrograd, Russian Republic

On Wednesday, on my way to and from the Ministry of Ways, where I went to collect information about the state of the railways, I passed through a seething crowd of 2,000 to 3,000 soldiers busily engaged in selling boots and clothing to civilians.

This is called the “ Equipment Market ”! What is the good of sending stuff to such people? In the course of the year 1917 Great Britain despatched to Russia from the United Kingdom nearly fifty million pounds’ worth of material, including 1,804,650 pairs of ankle boots and 1,259,600 pairs of long boots !I drove to see the Minister of War, to piotest, and to ask why our sailors should risk their lives to carry these things to Russia. Verkhovski said he thought that steps might be taken to prevent such sales. He had prevented them when commander of the Moscow District, etc., etc.

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