The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1917 THE EXPERIENCES OF RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 November 1917, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1917 THE EXPERIENCES OF RUSSIA.

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

As the Russian film unfolds it presents sensation after sensation. The revolution takes its course from peacefulboss to bloodshed; the Red Feds of Russia, men who have no sense of law and order, debauchees and committees of the whole calender of nameless orgies have seized the reins of Government, only to be ejected again after indulging in the most horrifying butcheries and massacres of mere boys and innocent women. Civil war with a bitterness rarely if ever known in internecine struggles has been tasted, and the people shrink from it, and now the Kerensky Government has reasserted itself, and is given another chance to act with such firmness in the dispensing of law and order that will ensure its continuity. Petrograd has presented widely varying scenes during the last few months; it has had Government by the Pro-German mob of plunder and murder. The Russian people have had a sample of what Germany supports with money and men and they are thrusting it from them and welcoming back the Government that was in course of evolution from the time that a treacherous and traitorous Czar was dethroned. Intellectual Russia is striving to bring about readjustments as will permit of following the only course that leads to an early peace; They now .have ample evidence that in making themselves the catspaw of Germany there is no peace. They have learned that their stores and food will be seized by the Prussian vulture and paid for by bogus rouble notes, printed in Berlin; they have already evidence of German cultur in the committal of scientific barbarities and in casting their women to licentious. drunken criminals. The German way does not appeal to them as the true way to peace; they are now realising that peace can only come by the destruction of Germany and German methods, and they are once more rallying to the standard of honour and just government. Russia was only momentarily out of the Allied councils, but what horrifying, appalling experiences she encountered. The Allies still have faith in, a reorganised, regenerated Russia, that her people will yet rally to assist in destroying the infuriated wild beast of Europe. Only yesterday, Mr Lloyd

George, in addressing the Prime Minister of Prance, said: “Let us be just to Russia, -which, is suffering from a violent fever as the result of atrocious mis-goverment. She is winning her way to a steadier and cleaner health than ever she enjoyed. We should not forget what she did in the early days of the war, when .her heroic sacrifices helped to save Prance and Italy." This sums up the Russian question from Britain’s point of view. What Russia did in the earlier days of the war was accomplished by the Russian people and not by a treacherous ruler. She is to-day winning her way to a steadier, cleaner health than ever she enjoyed. This is undoubtedly the view officially held by the Allies. Germany has succeeded in lengthening the war by means that are most disgusting and contemptible in English-speaking countries, by compaigns of lying and corruption. People in countries where every person is not regarded as an atrocious liar, naturally fell to such Hun cultur to a certain extent. We believe Russia has had its fill of Hun lying and that she will now studiously and persistently labour in building up a Government that will bring her a steadier and a cleaner {health than ever she enjoyed; that she will again turn on the hordes of German cultur and drive them back from every inch of Russian soil. With all the turbulence and trouble in Russia, Britain and France have not lost confidence in her, and even on the Italian question Russia is to be consulted. Kerensky has now an experience which has taught him that the only short cut to salvation from revolution and the machinations of a cunning, malevolent, heartless destroyer, is the -wide, straight road of firmness, justness and honour, and the -whole world will be surprised l if his future conduct is not guided by these new experiences. We already see that he is standing side by side with Korniloff, an erstwhile enemy, and this fact alone augurs -well for the subjection of all pettifogging selfconsiderations to the building up of a great, powerful party in which will figure the names of Kerensky, Korniloff, Brussiloff, Alexieff, Russia, Dimetrieff, Kaledin, and other sane generals and politicals. Nothing will shake the Austro-German confidence in Italy and elsewhere more than such a consummation. In his reply to M. Pain, leve’s welcome to Paris, Mr, Lloyd George made it abundantly clear that Russia was yet worthy of trust, and that Russia would yet become a power for Germany to reckon with. He said the Allies were entirely to blame for the national catastrophes that had resulted from a want of unity in conducting the’ war. The road to the coveted east #as opened and the rich "corn lands and oilfields of the Balkans were seized by Germany because it was nobody’s business to guard them; Roumania was.crushed and Servia obliterated because there was no unity of front and action. That has all been altered; (the 'Allies are rushing fo Italy’s assistance; Italy and all the Allies have, realised that every front is of as much importance 'to them as to Germany' all fronts have been merged into one great, cohTTnubus front; the war was being waged today because small fronts were nobody’s care. Germany, not being able to win the war by honourable methods of warfare, has laid the canker of treachery on small nations and followed up with efforts to invade and destroy. Absolute unity and real co-or-dintaion is, however, to be the panacea for the ills of Hun cultur. Eh the future, and, with a regenerated Russia, a War Council to govern the conduct of the Allies’ cause wherever a shot is fired, with the oncoming millions of men, money, and munitions from America, we may reasonably hope for a turn in the tide that hitherto would not ebb to finality.