HOW RUSSIA SAVED PARIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 August 1919, Page 3

HOW RUSSIA SAVED PARIS.

TIMELY REMINDER. LONDON. Speaking at. ‘a meeting of members of the House of Cpmm_ens, at which General Briggs, e-hief=of the British ’Mili'rar3' Msision \.v'i'tlr Géilel'al Deni':in. gaw; details of Deniken’s achievejznelltsg with the hélp the British. ;;\.fr Winston Churchill (Minister for '\r"»/3.1‘) Said that Denikin had the nuc--1.':.11s cf 21 good armyss Th(.'_V might ad‘v‘:m(:e or they migllt be driven back, but=.r.’ehey-would continue to fight. whfle they lived_ He reminded tlle,;_x;eeting that GenezalDellikin and Afidmir-a1 Koltchak from the first. declaregl war on the Germans,_ and never‘ S,\\'_é’l'Ved from the pzxth of freedom and_.h,o!ll._o__ux', which we ourselves had been trétLdillg since the wa‘E' began. ’ 1 . ‘:

He could not fdl'go{.‘wllal: Russia. did for us at fhc bogitlni'n'g'~of the war. xx-}len.Paris might have been taken if she had not'~pusllc’d..'o:n»*hm‘ armie.<. It was Inost'p'athe‘thic that in the peace celebrations the Russians co_uld ‘not take any part. Our policy was after all most moderate. It. was to endeaV'olll' to give a measure of support. to General Dcnikin which did not involv'e the Sending of troops.