RUSSIA’S MARCH TO FREEDOM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 297, 14 December 1914, Page 4

RUSSIA’S MARCH TO FREEDOM.

The friends of Liberalism .in Russia, build high hopes upon the effects of the war within the Czar’s own dominions, says a writer in the Aucland Star, and goes on to recall that the “Novoe Yremya,” of Petrograd, announces that a new era has now begun. The “Viedomosti,P the Liberal paper of Moscow, says confidently that the country has now definitely and permanently entered upon the path of Constitutional progress. The “Riecb” speaks of the Russian armies liberating the masses of Germany from the tyranny of militarism. The tone! taken by leading papers like these; is all the more significant because until six months ago the Press was muzzled by the Censorship, and no editor would have been allowed to dwell upon race or class wrongs and aspirations for progress and emancipation. The removal of unjust re-j strictions on freedom of opinion has helped to strengthen faith in the reality and i-eliability of the Czar's promises of reform. In their new mood, even papers as cautious as tne| “Novoe Yremya” indignantly >esent the scepticism that has been,, jot uu naturally, shown by the, German Press as to the offers of emancipation being carried into permanent effect--The Government will, the Russ,an journalists declare, be from this time forward a Liberal Government.