EX-AMBASSADOR'S ADVICE.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 July 1918, Page 5

EX-AMBASSADOR'S ADVICE.

IF WE DESERT RUSSIA. LONDON, Sir George Buchanan, late Ambas- ! sador at Petrograd, responding to the toast of "The British Empire," at a dinner given by the British Russia Club at the Piccadilly Hotel, said the Bolsheviks dreamed of a millennium in which liberty would be the privilege of one class. Accordingly, they had slandered British motives. "I am acutely aware," he said, "how British interests have suffered We mustn't lose interest in Russia on account of what has happened, and when the time comes for action we must give Russia a helping hand If Germany acquires the control of Russia's enormous man-po<ver, of her vast natural resources, of her unexploited wealth, Germany will in the end become mistress of the East. No matter what conditions you may impose in the west, Germany will have won the war. "Prepare, therefore to take ?n active

Part in the work cf R uss i an reconstruction."