CEMENTING THE ALLIANCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 38, 12 September 1916, Page 4

CEMENTING THE ALLIANCE.

A fine description of the enthusiasm wiHi which the Russian troops recoivcd the news of the Allied successes on the Western front is given by Mr ( Stanley Washburn, who is with the ■Russian forces. Ho states that telegrams wore sent by the Commander-in-Chief to each corps of his Army, and were read aloud to the men by their commanders. Mr Mashburn was with a regiment of Cossacks when the news was read by their Colonel, and he writes: —“One "as deeply impressed here with the extraordinary enthusisam of these haggard, bloody, and war-stained Russian veterans "hen they learned that their Allies in the. West were sacrificing and bleeding even as themselves. There is no people in the entire world so responsive as the Russian, and the news of the British and French advance has done more in three days to cement the Alliance than a year ol diplomatic negotiations could possibly j aecmnpiwh,” 1