RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 June 1918, Page 3

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

ITHB DYING REVOLUTION. FLOWER OF SOCIETY IN THE GUTTER. Petrograd, March 31. We are not only witnessing another new act of diabolical pantomime of Russian politics, but are actually going back step by step to theeold bureaucratic regime with all its attendant evils in the shape of centralisation, capitalism, the moral and economic Subjection of the people strugling in the bog of ignorance, the granting of prerogatives to favoured , nations at the expense of the native article, and all the other horrors of the most corrupt civilisation in Europe.

The revolution is not in danger. It is damned beyond the pale of danger or safety. Its crimes have recoiled on

its own head. The hopes of democracy lie dead and buried in its pitiless bosom. Draw a shroud over it! Away with it to the common burial ground!

Such is the latest. Soviet programme outlined by the Commissaries and while it will doubtless afford keen satisfaction to the Germans, it is curious that the Government, having lost the confidence of their own supporters, are looking abroad for sympathy. The latest gesture of the Soviet, a magnanimous proclamation that all those exiled or persecuted for religious and political reasons will find a warm welcome in Russia, looks like a farewell or a message of distress from the political Mephistopheles at the helm who, I understand, is searching for a substitute to take his place as head of the Government.