The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1917. RUSSIAN RECOVERY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 26 June 1917, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1917. RUSSIAN RECOVERY.

(With which is incorporated The Tai hapo Post and Waimarino News).

The news from Russia is growing more hopeful; there is still disorder in several localities, and scenes arising from national ignorance of tile peasant class are occasionally happening in the larger cities. It now seems that on the east and south-east everyone is waiting for Russia. All sections of the Russian people excepting the extreme Socialists, in which lies the hotbed of anarchy and nihilism, are supporting warnings against street disorders wmch are only being engineered so that the full fruits of the revolution may never be gathered by the people; that bloody scenes may arise out of these so-called pacifist gatherings, in other words, that in the interests of all Russia, if all these

German-nurtured anarchical meetings are not discontinued, they will be dispersed with gun and bayonet. We can have .no surer indication or better evidence of the breakdown of German influence to secure separate peace than the sowing broadcast by Hun airmen, over the Russian lines, sheaves of printed proclamations, announcing that the Germans wanted no more fraternising with Eussia; the Huns thanked Russia for the truce that enabled them to send large forces of men and guns to stem the Allied tide that had commenced to overwhelm German armies in France and Belgium, and now that all Russians would be shot at sight. Even

dense Russia can understand the insult so treacherously heaped upon her people; they will understand that it was not fraternisation as they thought; it was not the kiss of the brother, but of the traitor Hun Judas, and they are showing that they know how to resent such dirty business. The Russian soldiers are coming back in every way; they realise that the democracy can only exist by supreme loyalty to country; that the cause of the people cannot flourish on any spurious lip loyalty; that they no longer need cringe to a king and government they had no hand in creating, but that they must be true and loyal to that body of rulers they have selected from among themselves; they are realising that kingcraft must be something that is relegated to Russia's past history if they would be free from the intrigues of monarchs that would end in sacrificing them and their children to semibarbarous serfdom, and keep them in terror and fear of ending their days in Siberia. They are now beginning to see through all this and they are cominc; back to their senses, to their duties in the army, and to what they must do to achieve a free Russia. They revolted because they were being sold by their Czar to the German Kaiser and his military they

are coming back to the command of Brusiloff and to a sane understanding because they realise that another extreme, anarchy, is also trying to make a compact with the cunning, dirty German to hand them over as slaves to Germany. The great Brusiloff again speaks and tells us that he is truly gratified with the improvement in his army's morale. Soldiers, he says, are now fully conscious of their duty to save their country from the ruthless invader. They have acquired a truer perspective and are no longer bothering about a Socialistic division of land; they are responding to the call for prompt action. We see evidences of this new understanding in German official reports, which tell us that around Lemburg and Tarnopol the Russians have commenced serious business. Roumania has seized the opportunity occasioned by the lull, to put her military house in order and now stands ready with a plentitude of big guns, of field artillery, of machine guns with an ample equipment of all supplies necessary for the vigorous .ruthless slash at the enemy; for the dawn of "The Day" of the Allies that will see the breaking of German bloodlust and power to a state from which it may never recover to again bathe the world in blood. With the good news from Brusiloff and that from Roumania it seems that an offensive is about to be commenced in Galicia and Roumania, and the "fighting reported around Lemberg and Tarnopol are sparrings to feel for the easiest and deadliest spot on which to land the first blow. With the resurrection of Greece and the growing popularity and power of Venizelos, Bulgaria is likely to have a very busy time in the not distant future. If Russia is as near ready for big things as the news from Brusiloff and from Roumania seem to indicate, the war may yet end in 1917.