The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1917. LATEST WAR DEVELOPMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 November 1917, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1917. LATEST WAR DEVELOPMENTS.

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

Sinister happenings in Russia seem to indicate that blood-lettrng on a large scale will be the civil lot of that unhappy country. Maximalists, headed by that obliquitous tool of the corrupt Hun, Lenin, have, for the moment, the upper hand in Petrograd, -whether the intellectuals and those opposed to lawlessness, brigandage and murder are strong enough to bring about his downfall, and urge the people into a saner mood yet remains to be seen. For the moment the prospect is, that the revolution will lead to as bloody a struggle as ever revolution did in France or in any other country. It is noteworthy that cables have from time to time advised that it is only, or almost entirely in Petrograd that the seething cauldron of corruption is kept at a threatening state of tumult; where the insinuating sinuous Hun is pouring out blood money freely in plying his cult of destroying nations by internal rupture. It is very much easier, it seems for Germany to persuade Russia to commit suicide than it is to conquer her by honourable force of arms. Germany is minus the fighting forces to secure victory in the field, and she is staking everything on a campaign of lying and corruption, peskily prosecuted as only the nature and culture of a Hun can, by sneaking backstair methods, poisoning the minds of a people until they fly at each others throats, while Germany walks in quietly and takes possession. Will the people of Russia permit anything of this kind? For we must remember that Petrograd, where the Hun is so active, is not Russia. Britain and the Allies have tried to save the Russian people from civil war; they have given assistance of every kind, until now the only concern they can have is, how will it affect the war? first, Ave Pu™wo "to learn what the leaders of the army have to say; what Kalcdin (the Cossack king)), Alexieff, Brusiloff, Korniloff, are going to do about the Hun upstart, Lenin. Will they submit to a reign of Maximalism, the seizure of all proprietary lands, and will they stand by while their land is given over to ignorant peasants who Eave not the knowledge to manage it? Have the better class Russians and the far-

mers of Slavdom no following among the peasantry that they should be victims to the merest wave of nihilism and brigandage that comes along, or have they some strength to organise against the Hun stabbers-in-the-back? Will the proud Cossacks, the proverbial gladiators of Russia, the outstanding yeomanry of the country, crawl, helpless as worms under the usurped sway of Lenin and his German and Nihilist pack? Russia is without doubt, faced with a dark, corrupt and bloody future, but for the present she is, like putty, in the hands of Germany. The Allies seem to realise ftiat dependence can no longer be placed on Russia, and, to some extent, that even Italy must be saved against Hun machinations. Reading between the lines of cables arriving yesterday one becomes obsessed with the idea that the 'Allies are about to abandon all halfmeasures in prosecuting the war; that they will no longer lay themselves open to the reproach of Colonel Repington or anyone else, that they were only exerting half the military effort that Germany was; that they have realised the fatal issues at stake, while they use half their force and Germany uses all its to the very utmost regardless of all human laws and cansiderations, and that they are determined to abandon the maudlin delicacy about putting orientals to march into Berlin. No Chinaman could act with greater barbarity than Germans have in this war; why not inflict the supreme indignity upon Hun culture by allowing Chinese to make a~ triumphal entry into Berlin. The Allies have refused to accept oriental assistance in the war hitherto, but there is to be no such delicacy or fastidiousness in the future, if we read cables aright. Had the Allies used all the forces available in this war as Germany has, it would not be raging now, and none of our husbands and fathers need have been called from their wives and families to the trenches in France. Why should we go on fastidiously choosing our weapons while the very flower of the blood of our Empire and that our Allies is being drained by the mad, wild beast of Europe? The United States is the chief partner of the Allies now, and Uncle Sam is making it clear that 'half measures have to be scrapped; that this war has to be won, and won in the quickest time possible. If nations of the earth now fighting cannot do it,. America will insist upon talking in others. The first desideratum is win the war; the second is win it as quickly as possible and with as little loss of Allied life as possible. The ways of knight-erran-try have been scrapped by Germany and America is laying them aside while engaged' with Germans; no means of help towards winning the war is to be left' unused, and the world's com-monsenso-:will applaud this determination. If the. poison-words of German culture renders a Russia or an Italy innocuous, then other nations waiting anxious, and ready to wcild the bayonet and .hurl the bomb against Hun culture will bo admitted to take their places. The world is not going to be ruled by cunning, conspiracy and treachery. Germany is doomed to fail; if her campaign of butchery to secure world dominion cannot be stopped by those whom she first attacked, then it will be stopped by the calling in of those peoples who have already had some experience of German rule' and culture. Germany has given a new interpretation of the old saying, "everything is fair in love and war," and it would be fatal to the Allies to go on accepting the interpretation given to it in all past ages. We have, after the loss of helpless women and children in English towns, found it imperative to adjust our air-raiding methods to the lead set by Germany. We have been rudely shown the madness of persisting in the nicety and delicacy of our war methods, and we arc being compelled to bring them more into line with the ways of our enemies, moreover, we are going to do it wholeheartedly. We have experienced the folly of putting half our military effort against the whole of that of Germany, and we have vigorously set about mending our ways. Germany has to be left powerless to force war upon the world again in the near future. If Russia falls a victim to poison and falls out, of which there is little likelihood, her place must be filled by Japan, China and any other peoples drilled in modern war methods but Germany must be beaten.