HOW WE HELP RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2618, 13 November 1915, Page 3

HOW WE HELP RUSSIA

NO DISCONTENT WITH THE PART BRITAIN IS TAKING. ,

As tie result of inquiries in Duma, circles anions members of the Council of Empire and in private circles (writes the special correspondent of the toclianko Telegraph. Co." . in Petrosrad), I am able to deny the reports that there is any discontent.with tho part England is playing in the war, or any impatience that 'she should' play a greater role. Meetings of the Duma Groups', of Zemstvo workers, of munition organisers, and of unofficial' political groups daily brine forth expressions of appreciation of England's work. The same is true of most newspaper utterances. At a meeting held at Moscow the retired Colonol Kuznetsoff, a veteran of the last Turkish war, said: England has done her work nobly. At first we expected only British .naval aid. This aid was essential and invaluable. Witnout it, wo should have got no supplies from the outer world and wo should even havo had our Far Eastern ports, closed. Russia without Britain naval aid could not have carried on the war. ] "In addition, England lias supplied two kinds of aid Which we did not count on—military and finnacial. British military co-operation in France plays' » decisive role in the campaign there-. _ At the same meeting.a- speaker praised England's action against 4ho Dardsnelles as "the most practical and promising of all ways of. helping' Russia. He added:. '.'England's tenacity against Turkey is at present the 0110 bright feature connected with the campaign. In the West there is stagnation, and hero in the East we havo experienced a lamentable scries of - set-backs. In tho Dardanelles alone'is our cause making progress—even if the progress is slow and t'ho Dardanelles is the. one theatro of war where even pessimists can say that victory is in sight. To England w© 'owe the prosp.ect of a success, even though' it is aeainst tho weakest- of our three enemies."'