BACK FROM RUSSIA.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 29 September 1919, Page 4

BACK FROM RUSSIA.

SOME WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES Mr Aubrey L. Williams, after ten years’ absence from New Zealand, has returned from Russia (says the “Post”). For live years previous to the war he resided in I’etrograd, and Cor the first month of the war assisted liis brother, Dr. Harold Williams, in his Russian correspondence for London papers. At the end of August he went to London, and there joined the British section of the New Zealand Forces. He served in Gallipoli and France, where he was wounded. In the autumn of UUI7 he was discharged from the New Zealand Forces at the request of the Foreign Office, and was sent back to Russia to engage in British propaganda.

Shortly after his arrival there the Bolshevik outbreak occurred, and he iwas an cye-wifness of the very severe week’s fighting, in the streets of Moscow. He spent five months under the rule of the Bolsheviks in Pctrogxad and Moscow, and saw Russia .go rapidly downhill to ruin. He was thankful to leave it in March, 191 S, and on lustreturn to England was engaged in relief 'worn for Russian refugees with Gir George Buehailau. cx ' Ambassador, chairman of the Central HllSrian Committee.

Mr Williams also took up lecturing on his 'Russian experiences, among the troops in Britain, and after the armistice toured the British sector in France. In February this year he went to Italy, went all over North Italy, and visited the Tyrol, Trieste, and Fiulne. Mr Williams hopes to lecture in New Zealand on his thrilling experiences.