 Complete the following phrase:  Lloyd George wanted Russia persuaded to make the maximum possible effort, a necessity again stressed at the second Chantilly Conference in December 1916. Wilson was sent as Senior Military Representative Robertson had refused to go on a British mission to Russia in January 1917 delayed from November 1916, the object of which was to keep the Russians holding down at least the forces now opposite them, to boost Russian morale and see what equipment they needed with a view to coordinating attacks. The party of 50 included British led by Milner and including a banker and two munitions experts, French led by de Castelnau and Italian delegations. The War Office briefing advised that Russia was close to revolution. Wilson met the Tsar but thought him as devoid of character  purpose as our own poor miserable King. Even senior Russian officials were talking openly of assassinating the Tsar or perhaps just the Tsarina. Wilson was impressed by Generals Ruzski and Danilov, although he may have been influenced too much by the views of Knox, who had been British military attaché since 1911. He toured Petrograd, Moscow where he was concerned at the food shortages and Riga, which he predicted the Boches would never capture they would do so in late 1917, and thought that even if Tsar and Tsarina were assassinated 