Hokitika Guardian & Evening Star MONDAY, JUNE 24th. 1918.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1918, Page 2

Hokitika Guardian & Evening Star MONDAY, JUNE 24th. 1918.

Itr.SHA OK TO-DAY AND TO-MOR-ROW.

Oi'" the many articles on the Russian revolution, thy most thorough, says nn Australian reviewer, is Professor Simp- , son’s in the ‘‘Nineteenth Century,” callj e(l “The Russian Revolution “in Retro- ■ spent and Forecast.” His sympathies | are dearly against the Rolsheviks and | with the Provisional Government, of I which Kerensky was the head. He takes as his text the saving that “I lie history of Russian literature is a martyrology,” and applies it from literature to politics. “Miliuoff’s hair is white, Kerensky is in hiding, and Shangnrov, the most lovable and eloquent of them all, has been foully murdered. Nor is it as if the course of events had been totally unforeseen. Already on May 12. addressing a session of a conference of delegates from the front, Kerensky began, “Two months have passed since Russian freedom was born,” and (hen. afler detailing the situation of the day, continued, ‘“I have come to you because my strength is going, because I do not fed in myself niv former daring. I have not my old confidence that before me there are conscientious citizens creating a new State with an attractiveness and wealth of the Russian people. Tam sorry I did not die then two months atro, I Would have died with the great vision that once for all there had blazed up in Russia a now life; that henceforward we could make each effort- without the aid of whip or stick, and administer the State, in other ways than was done bv j (lie despots of former days.” The writer makes full allowance tor the hardships suffered by the soldiers under the autocracy, and for the ignorance of the. peasants, but lie dearly holds the opinion that all the benefits of the revolution will go to the Germans if Germany was not its inspiration. “The economic

control of P-usai-?..’’ -he 'taye. "i-; Oar

many's principal aim in the war. Russia is the colonial market, which she hoi>es to c'ain in exchange for foreign and colnial trade elsewhere. He is bv no means eerlain that this aim will he attained. There are too many elements in Russia which have not yet spoken and are perhaps unable to speak. There is apparently no possibility of the old Government, or indeed, any form of monarchy returning, except as an instrument of the enemy. The Hussianu themselves vend towards a federated republic of socialistic Stales, with sympathies keenly anti-German, if not proAlly. Professor Simpson thinks that after the period of turmoil is past there will he 150,000,003 people sound at heart and peculiarly responsive to generosity of feeling and action, who will, when they realise on looking hack that we were patient and suffered with them for them, make ample recognition.