The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920. STARTLING NEWS FROM RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3503, 15 June 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920. STARTLING NEWS FROM RUSSIA.

With which ‘is incorporated “The Taihape Post and Waimarino News.”

As is quite within the I'ea.sonuble order of “things, startingly S(3llS:Ltion{Ll news continues :0 some from Russia} To anarchy there is no end till only one man is left: upon earth, and 801~ ’shcvisln is anarchy of 8. rabied iype. Yesterda_v'a message 4;-e.:;:c Shang--hai stating that '.l‘:o:..~rl~:;.- been murdered and that Lenin was a fugi:ive.- It. is reported that a counter revolution against the Lenin-Trotsky l_c.oinbina.tion has proved successful ‘and [the famous old General Brussilofl’ is at the head of a new Government. i'l'hcre are few men in Russia, or anywhere else, so resourceful, adventuresome, daring and capable of en(lul'iance as that old time friend of the I Allied cause. When it was stated I‘ll-at. I he had joined the Bolshovik army from .revengefu_l motives, many sl;u<l(!11ts of [the war wondered from what quarter the sought to exuef satisfaction. It; [was difiicult :0 believe that with his itr-uining and early mn'rouildi,ngs he could ever seriously ally himself with ithe most frightt'ul of all fornis of ;’l;,nown unarcliy, und such eonsider:i— tions furnish ground for believing that ;the message to hand conveys :1 large meed of truth. Brusiloi‘l”s rescuing of ;I‘i‘u.<si;m forces from the Mursli couniry after the great I-lind.enbul'g drive in the early days of the war st:nll[»S him as one of.‘ the worlcl’s if'ln(>.~'t generuls and wisest. sl'x'ntegists. He not only saved the Russian zirmy. but‘ it is probable that‘ he also snvi-cl the Al‘:ied (':l1l.~‘€. His oll’en.~:i\'e:< were largely of :1 S(‘11.<1ll.lOIl2ll clinmcler. and ii‘ was S('.lLl’.)!!l he sl'.ll'¢‘l'i-‘nil <lo.l'e2ll. F~u(:l1 is the mun that is now said to be :11, the lmml of lhe latest Russizm Gov-‘ ol'lll]’lolli. As ll soldier, a. general amll t.’l(.‘-l'l('l(lll he is too well known to l1(‘(.‘(l] i'urtlwl' notice. lle \\':l.< the terror ofi the enemies of Russia, and it seems‘ tlmt‘ when the leopzlrtl can (‘llilll§I(’ its spots General Brusiloff will clmnge from what he is by nature and: cclueu-5 tion to hetzoming an I1Yl:ll‘(,‘l]lSi; of the‘ P-olslievilc order. The lllCSS:l,0;E‘. of Pu-nsilolT’s success coming flu‘-oughi Slm.l':glmi has not l)<i-en v.oni'il'nl(=.d. but! there is such an air of probability! about it as. 10 force it upon genel'u,l.’ :.zl.i.€—nl_ion, and it is so faseinnling that one car. hardly help <liscussing‘ it. (‘an it. he that the clever, daring. ambitious General Brur<ilofl', Bl'itilin":'~' old friend: of the early war days, is now the first’ man in Russia, filling the place of fhcl Czar he so loyally fought i’-01‘? We‘ 7""1“.Y (lid believe that Lenin and, 'lf“‘)t-“ky I'mlSl‘» evenf.iia.l.l’y become vic‘inn:-: 10 ihe cult" they set up. Anurcliyi is nmmzliy; it. does nol stop 31‘ mm: bloridilziiwilrielurii 17' "g|':w}"°'qs um“ .‘ ~ ' ~~ E4lllß the -upper hand! for u *.'lr.ie, eventually to be de.~:h'oye«]-

by something still more bloodthirsty and treacherous. If the counter 1-evolu-I Lion story is true and ‘Brusilioif is 'actually contrlolling Russian affairs is he doing so as a. Bolshcvisti If he is it will only he a matter of time when 1 he will join the band of Russian killed, either as a martyr or a bandit, for so long as there is one anarchist left he will strive to assassinate any and all who stand in his road to the gratificaition of an insane appetite. There are people who do not discover any differ‘ence between the anarchist and the ipati-iot, between men who risk their ~ lives for the gratification of their own } pensonal desires and ambitions, and ,those who have a consuming passion g/£0 benefit their follows. The Value { men place upon human life is the true index of the category to which they | belong. The patriot who vfights for ‘his ifellows is careful not to waste human ; life, while the anarchist is it Velifable E profligate in the destruction of human life. We are to some extent anticipating the truth of the Shanghai message and discussing it puwely fl'om I that sfandopint, but trud or untrue, the ‘day will surely come when the pro» Egress of anarchy will have resulted in

[the Tl-otsky—Lenin regime being wiped I right out, for anarchy is nothing more than a reversion to a brutal level in ‘which the last two males will fight for the right to be supreme with none' Ito oppose him. So long as We New _ Zealanders remain faithful to our dis- ] crimination between patriotism and ‘ anarchy -our civilisation has nothing to fear. We can fight for the removal of I-disabilities, oppression and eXtol‘tioll without desiring to assassinate our King and destroy all forms of government. The gravest menace we have to contend with is that anarchy which parades in patriotic. clothing, and would not lift a hand to save the race from sl‘avery'to German cultur. Do we as -a people, sufliciently realise the danRger of giving support to men who try to make us believe that social and inrlustriul, and political improvement is not possible until we have murdered land massiacred lalfl, “‘,fr.om King ‘,and Cl‘-overnment down, who seem to stand ’in our way‘? Have Lenin and Trotsky succeeded by anarchy and assassinations‘? Even though the Shanghai mes-sage‘)'zn.-ay be incorrect, are not Lenin | and Trotsky in momentary risk of losi ing their lives as they have taken the ilives of thers? One false step behind ‘{ the disciples of Lenin -and Trotsky may Hand; our country and our homes in ’ the anarchic shambles. We are not Elllalilllg any mistake about the diifer{ence between anarchy and patriotism, but are we not taking an appalling risk in allowing ourselves to be led by New Zcaland ’Lenins and Tl-«otskys? The Russian people have had their churches and their homes sacked by anarchy, by that cult of murder and ’ robbery that cares for nothing but the

' pursuit of its own devilish proelivities. i Russia is an example of the conditions anarchy sets up, .a never-ending crop of revolutions and counter-revolutions, with its recurring harvests of human islaughter, debauchery and unnlention[able crimes. There is great need in the British Empire for improvement in the living conditions of the people, iund it is because that. improvement is ‘so ;l'ong overdlue that. the anarchist ifinds ground that he can turn to his iuwn account. That. being fully ad- " mitted does not. furnish any cause or reason for the masses of the oppressed people abandoning all hope and e.ast.ing caution to the winds in be- ’ coming easy proselytes to the horrors lof anarchy. 112 is reported that Troti sky has been murdered and that Lenin ‘ is a fugitive.‘ General Brusilofl' is Oeeupying the plztce of supreme power in that once mighty land, and what is to be the otiteoiiit‘? What differenvefiwill ‘the asceiitlaiiey of Brusiloff have on the peace of the world, in the I'eeonstl'uetion 01’ imlnstry and soriety, on the removal of «lan_<_;ers that Llireitten Brirain’.< and the world ‘s «r,i_vilisatioli‘.’~ Brusilofi’ was never an unarellist or B0lSllC\'il{; he has ambi~ tions. but it is untliinkable that he, ‘lvonld, or could, favour the continuance of a s_yst'erli in which leaders arise by the‘ power of the sword, and pass away ignoininously at the point‘ Of the :Issas.~‘in’.< knife. in Bl'llSlloiii'§ there is cause for hope; his birth,l upbringing, etluezition, and environment are all far’, very far, removed from the lniunts and schools of :mar-5 c.hy_. At least his rule would not. be. worse than that. of Lenin and '.l‘rol'sl<y. :I.n(l it lll.'l_\' provide that (‘()llli)ll!tli'-lOIl' of sense of justiele and power that will I furnish a way to rapinl (‘ll12HlCl]):IlllHli "1: his Counl:rynlen, and relieve flue‘ world from tlizfit fear of univei-.<al (lis-‘ rnption which now L)\’("l'Sll2l(lo\\’s it. Whether the Slmnghai nies.<age be true. ‘partially true, or untrue, it imlicnlesl that the Russian .:Itmosphere is still! largely eliarged with revolution. l