RUSSIA'S HOPE OF RESCUE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1919, Page 11

RUSSIA'S HOPE OF RESCUE.

.RELIEF FORCE AT ARCHANGEL, j A GREAT WELCOME. (Times' Special Correspondent). Archangel, May 28. We Jiave waited long and our hopes! have wavered, but three troopships lie in | the harbour lie re, while a fourth is waiting to come to her moorings. It is a morning of full summer glory, for this latitude knows no spring. Yesterday wo shivered in a Arctic temperature j to-day a breath of the tropics reaches us, Russia continues to be a country of ex-1 tremcs. May 27.—Tf you had waited and tired of waiting through the dark and weary months of winter, yon would have some knowledge of our feelings to-day when the flower of the army that fought in France mareli|d through the town. From every masthead in the harbor, every house in the streets, and every tower of the Cathedral waved a tribute to the integrity of Britain. The populace, who only a short while ago wavered between loyalty to authority and concession to Bolshevism, watched the march past of England's best. Whitebearded peasants wipe the tears from their eyes and learn from the windows to throw sprigs of fir boughs in front of the marching troops—a tribute from the simple-minded, religious Russian, who had wondered if God was still in His heaven. Another picture—a picture of a. Hercules in khaki standing to salute on the quay while the National Anthem resounded and the wooden streets reverberated. If to-day General Ironside witnessed the realisr-t'oj 1 of his hopes, do not forget what I** " ,,,s done while the Government vox* maiung up its mind. If there was no massacre to avenge, do not. forget that he was ready for the sacrifice. The streets from the quay to the Troitski were lined by some of the finest troops that ever came from England—every man a soldier and every soldier a hero. Net a sleeve that did not flash in the sun because of the tokens of battle. General Ironside, the Governor, General Miller, and General Maruselievsky, Chief of the Russian Army, passed down the aisle of bayonets on which the sunshine glinted. On the quay they ft wailed BrigadierGeneral' Crogan, who came in a launch Ge .era! Miller went abroad and addressed a welcome. Geueral Ironside remained in paces in the rear, surrounded by his Stall'. In the distance we heard tin' notes of the National Anthem, and while all were Btanding at the Balute (he bells of the Cathedral burst into !■ i:. General Grogan Btepped ashore | I walked to General Ironside with aj ■ r,f rfcngnillon and a swift glance [po ji'UiiiV o.f hoiiow on the quay. Ifc Vi';:s IJyt'l'.V ft&ffiiKoM- ti.m-o I'x-Bolshov* ! i luken prisoner by General Ironside !'jw made into stalwart ami loyal soldier* by him, since no better material wa» (o hand in the dark days of March. Iv ihere was a proud moment in a man's life, I thin!': this wa; General Ironside's, By sheer strength of efevnclor he gnb. iujmtei' t.'•(-■:!> liitUhevisfd to his will. 1 ;He neve- curried a revolver during this time, ami <o.iie doy 1 - !•:<!( l.lt the upris'iit}■- he (,;ie!i('<! i>.- h;>. .ii.ti,i ng pert,v). <,Ve:>/in;;.; v.'r-rv exchanged, mill livers 1 ' l!:»t,l,nli;;n /,'ai'e tongue to a strmiM 1 iisvf.ivp (*vy, p.]i;> '.ci'ton. Then i!,e g.-ner-h wen! tiirnugh tile

rallies of ill." anil JVteks" Light. li;;i:niry svd the '.>i,.| to an ,'iriic " fll'S Hlld I'r— •■■■: / j)y () ie civil :"!'.hr,,n honor of the Tvril i<!i. 1 ere f,ei— ■••! f ri was offered liroj,] and rr M lance with >;Ke«'n( R"-sin*l -He replied:— 1 h.'ipe ynii vi'l hv on i:r. as Allies wh.-i 'Mine he'j, nothing else. Vie have no itiivr :v,i.v I hope it will i:' l he Ic.ne; hei'' re ;i takes up again her «nsl; of ..-iviJ-ruJ;on, which is to help hmnnnitv-"

There folli a m.-irek jinst, and as, f w;>!.ched. I le ;e men sent out, from Britain I eonid imll lt: ; i v echo thf rrn'imeiit of a nii?.;i,vi !•- ■■■)• "Tf you hud sent such «tnhvart« »«*• ago, there would Iri' e 1.".".' - '>i.' in ihi's p:ul country in-flnv," with dust. fr"e of limb.; rii.'i sinew because of the vo-onr of von!'' 1 li"V swung Ilhmn' the eoMiled No Bolshevist nropiir'snda eniilil si;>i 11 the loyalty of me., like those. Thev !>n.ve learned their lesson m France, anil V.nsf.iniiß watching ''i\oiv we know why (lerniauy lost." It i= [food to be British to-day. Britmn has sent riv Victoria Crosses with this relief expedition. There will be more on the way home. In a little while there will be another procession through the streets of Archansel. The men who have been fighting'down the line will be coming back for demobilisation. England must not forget them. They came here as cripples unfit, for general sen-ice, hut, General Ironside was compelled to use them in the fighting line,