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1,500 GALLONS OBTAINED. There is a fashion in the British Press of writing of those new people the Another well in a garden 60 yards from Bolshevik leaders with whom we have to the premises where paraffin was pumped
Like most ordinary Englishmen who deal, as though they were ignorant, detested the old regime in Russia and illiterate, and inexperienced men of no the day before in the village of Rameey, weleowed the Russian revolution with a Junker on might imagine Bottom was and crude oil in large quantities, re- account. When a Bolshevik leader meets near Peterborough, began to yield pars. delight, I have been following the reports tion that must be put an end to. Some contly, says the Daily Mail. This new mecting Theseus. That is a misconcep of what is happening over there with the it is true, are poor men of the professource was on premises belonging to Mr.
sional class, but Mr Lloyd keenest interest My sources of informato his honour, a poor inan of the profes-H.E. Isley, a hairdresser. He had been
George tion hayo been the mua! fources, supple-alonal class.
That
therefore, mented by some illuminating conversa- nothing against them. On the other advised to try his panip, and, following
indeed
which its traditions and organisation and learn, hat means.
tions with Americans and Englishmen educated men than even the German cleared from the well and at two o'clock hand, they are probably much better on a morning'a hard exertions, water was who have come back from Petrograd since Junkers against whom they are pittet in the afternoon oil was drawn. Io the republic was proclaimed. The Russian and certainly much better educated
our diplomatists. Our public has to three hours the pump had yielded 500 revolution caught our Foreign Office napalise this fact. These Bolshevik leaders gallons. ping just as it, was caught napping by re men who have been about the worl Mr. Isley's yard was filled with all the Turkish and Bulgarian defections at German as well as they
all of them know Englsih and alingst carlier date. Our diplomincy has are intimately acquainted with the Pumping was proceeding after dark by manner of receptacles containing paraffin do Russian, and in a pure state, and also petroleum jelly ani floundered pitifully in regard to Russimic questions, lly
movement, with social and
with the aid of safety lamps containing oil ever since, struggling with a situation for almost everything that
lly matters
in already drawn from the well, real politica. But our late Ambassador,
never mastered Russian. Just with oil taken from the original wall, An experiment was made by Mr. Isley Hardly any of and he found that whereas it took half the de facto Russian Governments make siar thought or literature. Moreover, our 3m, & pint of the Rumsey oil was of the Russian Press, or Rus heating lamp alight from. 8.30 am to
modern
ideas. When one meets Mr. Howard Coote, Lord Lieutenant of diplomatist one has to talk to him about such things as one talks to covered and
Huntingdonshire, inspected the oil dis Afth-form boy, guarding agamut
took away some for any sud
ideas at it about as well as a cow is atted think
our
for catching foxes, and the appeal that Office people know anything gallon of ordinary oil to keep his.
is directed so manifestly not to other is crudely ignorant of the sufficient
Governments, but to peoples that it has become our duty and an urgent necessity that such common people as the reader and I should ourselves try and get some grip upon this situation. A
It is one of those situations when a old sort of expert has to be superseded. and for a time there is nothing for lo
biles they had to learn
gon të be trusted with
took to automo-
last per-
Was
den mental shock. It is they who are analysis and several gallons for his own the ignorant and limited men, and not us theso Bolshevik people. cours the Czar and all his relations-ordinary oil lamp; I am burning some of
They know, of The oil will burn perfectly i beautifully. But the Czar has gone!" it in my house tonight" said Mr. Howard Coote to a Bily Mail represen
an
but mother wit. Just as when people That was all very well while diplomney, tative. As to the source of the outflow... gave up. carriages andmething about was a genteel, tactful sort of business of 18 impossible for anyone not technically secret treaties and the like that went on versed in these matters to form an ade- the latter themselves be old in and about Courts.Where there is a quzte judgment. I have communicated- con now we have all to learn office in spite of the fact that we
Court there is a conspiracy Our Foreign with the Government and I expect they about the new diplomatic situa
will
send an inspection tion. Because there is really no one we great free democracy, remainail,
convenientemattel, therefore DISPELLING THE GLCOM very for us. In other
experts affair so long as we had Me may hold there are
and. The oil is being eagerly bought up at
fields
can trust to deal with it ill experts Potsdam to deal with as our principal 28. a gallon and has been taken by Trons
Every
warfare, and ali vur
their oil ongings. All experiments havo-
mechanialry general is an Amtrak customers an even a certain courtlincas mengers, motor works, and farmers, for still ensures us the Nelson to pay about the French Foreige part that Houses in Ramsey and the neighbour- are so expert that promotion by seniorit hang, for the same reason, and still hangs, red satisfactory...
Office.
the expert claim in British
We begin to learn now Las indisputably
courtly traditions played in the hood, which were almost in gloon during and hopelessly in the sight of all men. There is Greek treason. Genltemanly persons met Christmas owing to the senrcity of oil down in no argument possible about that. We gentlemanly persons in Athens and Petro are now brightly lighted mere common persona, who have sons to grad and Sofia and Constantinople and The first theory was that the "find" be killed and lives to be spoilt by silly talked English or French with a fine was the result of a leakage from a storage secret treaties, Court intrigues and anti-thought and feeling that ro running two places where oil has been discovered, aloofness from the tides of popular tank. There is such a tank between the quated international muddling, have por force to get on to this business ourselves with irresistible strength. It was much
but it only holds 100 more important that our diplomatists something like 1,00 should be well connected and with easy, that they should have
manners
gallons,
and already
Now what are we up against in this only tall to waten the thought years ago e shaft was dug in the peat-
gold readily at the idea of peopi, ere darle un dib
new have been obtain gallons of this An inhabitant recalls that about 40. the land is peat bog and efforts mad, to extract oil, but with what success he not remember
dous
Like numbers of Englishroen 1 by their Christian nementia able to explain this rusli of oil from
how
how
Without local examination it is in 11" said an expert. I have never
and things known crude oil to be useful for hurning
Bolshevik Government in Petrograd : Aren't we all rather muddled in out of the country in which their Embassy minds about that, and isn't it high time formed a sort of charmed island of charn we got them clear? Haven't we al ing people. Our own Foreign Office jumped rather too
still that sort of German being behind the Belshe know vast viks?: but my faith in Kerensky, but he fell all the royalties are partly because of inhrcent weaknesses but like that, they very largely because of the reactionary French with a passabl, accent, and have such a phenomenon as oil equal to refined a bit of though some engines can take it. Should revolt against him here and in Russia some dusty, ancient Greek in their mental oil be found in a continuous natural Although competent naval authorities, for attics They have heard of Amerien in, example, are of
a distupt could have
nothing dope of
sort of way; are not the Duches supply it would be extraordinarily valu of Bo and so and the Countess of
of So-and- to Kerensky so
so Americans? But China, to them, is a appeals, and he was attacked by source of tea and a Pacific coast And Korniloff while he faced the Extremists, at for Russia When the Czar, whom being tired of war and saying that if we Instead of his falling to reaction, as they had always understood to be adored patch up this war with a sort of peace four certain. Petey so feared and hated unceremoniously hustle off the stage, he learnt her lesson "3 War will go on for in this country hoped by his people was so righteously and with the Kaiser Gernians will bavo in Russin that instead he fell to the Exleft a vast hole in the world of our aristo all our weariness unless we set up a new tremists. The Tory Press here, which cratic diplomatists which their
minds
in the Baltic in
reaction was
Was
Able
bad done its best to slight and estrange have not had the vitality to Btl in a way of government in the earth. A man Kerensky and embitter our relations with It remains a hole-waiting for the Chiril end his illness but the proper cure
may be weary of an illness, but nothing, this new Russia, then began a violent to return. They are incapable of appro- No peace we can make with the Hohen- campaign against the Bolshevik leaders, bending a vast nation of people who are zollern can over be a real peace; it will They poured out lies and imputations,
cousins to nobody," stirred deeply by other way. The Bolsheviks were trni For that such education as they bastions for five or ten or twenty years. The
censorship looked the modern ideas, in a great creative
be merely a cessation of military opera tors in German pay, German Jews, and of no more service than the training of war after the war will begin straight a lady's maid or the arts of an under away. The war of economia and tarifs batter. And, make no mistake about it, and the systematic, poisonous war of pro they are getting us disliked, they are pagandists and mischiefs-makers will be getting us horribly disliked
resumed.
Well, that outcry held up British opiuton for a time. I was puzzled in may wind, and rest of us were, about this how movement- Lenin's journey from Switzerland to Russia by way of Ger And there
third misconception
Let us look straight at what the resump. many, remains the one concrete fact in a about these new leaders of Russia this tion of that internal old game of Court great cloud of accusation and imputation we must clear up Not only are they diplomacies, war bluffs, economic shov- But I cannot get a scrap more evidence probably honest while half our Pressing, and Colonial rivalry means to the against the Bolsheviks than that. Wiki has been calling them scoundrels not world. accusation, yes is not a title of the evidence that the better educated than the run of our
but evidence, no. There only are they highly educated muter This war has already greatly strained the economic and political organisations Bolsheviks are aided or bought by the Ambassadors while our Press has been of mankind. The world is nearer exhaus German Government that there
is that the calling them ignorant, but also they are Famine, social breakdown, pestilence, Ulster gun-running was German in its
Lion than most people seem to realjce. inspiration. Lenin appears to be at leasting for a much more fundamental and as innocent as
final peace than to judge ever by Mr and world-wide disorganisation are quite Sir Edward Carson floyd George's recent speech, we are near at hand unless we have the wat to German imperialist sympathies. ably the reader holds that the hands of prepared to accept. par and up now to a task of just arrest the degenerative process! We have Sir Edward Carson were quite clean in To judge by our Tory uproar you political and economic reconstructions if that queer business; if he does so then, might believe that they are trying to we are not to be overtaken. But if we I think, he is bound to accord Bolshevik climb down to some shabby little patch-up seek mean immediate peace, instead of lenders also the civilities due to clean of this war. But it is really our Tories supporting the Bolsheviks in their hold who want beneath all their flag-wagging bu profoundly wise insistence por i and bluster-to patch up a rotten end to peace of the peoples, we shall not achieve On the other hand, there is tremend this war. The Bolsheviks appeale straight that reconstruction because the Hohen ous effect about the Brest negotiatious, to the German people; the ery of No zollern tradition will prevent it. Wo that the Bolsheviks are straight. They peace with the Hohenzollerns, which cannot reconstruct the world except have never wavered from their claim to gous right to the heart of this struggle, the in good faith & cunning, scheming be doing what is in the end the same thing cry that brought the common men of monarchy at the heart of Europe will that we are doing on the western front ireng Britain, you and 1 among them, cripple all our good intentions.ph to everywhere that is to say, the Bolshevik ery. Mr. Philip Snowden and have free discussion, the Balkans, all Asia heart and soul into the war, is the not dare to disarm, we shall not dare to intelligence. They are trying, se we left and of the right, the conscientious trigues and conflict until the Hohen-
feelings of
men
ing against German imperialism to fears, and German people
the Lord Lansdowne and our pacifists of the and Africa will be kept in a fever of in
are trying to revolutionise Central
Europe, and so end. aggressive militarism weloorde Mr. Lloyd Chooned Tory, may zollera dream is as dead and destroyed s in the world!
believe that Mr. George's statement the will of Peter the Great. A peate that orld for ever. they
can do this by mental work, by pro content arrange 1st to the that leaves the Hohenzolles still master be pagandu. Even our
constitution of Germany, but to me that Cermany will be a fatal step carer the fishman
much as I usually disagree with admission is the admission af defeat. It desth of our civilisation. This depleted himo, is, I gather, of the same opinion implies the abandonment of he idea of a world still armed us it will have to be, He wants to distribute tracts as well League of Nations in which a free Ger still full of unsettled disputes because its asather
inducements to peace of a more many can be included. On those lines main dispute is still unsettled, may steg- vivid description by acroplane. We this war will not end war. There Bolger along for a scorer a few score years differ from these Rolsheviks about sheviks are shining clear on that essen more of so-called posca" à la Lass their methods, but that is a different tial point Would that our people kere downe, but a day will come when the thing altogether from the spirit that had half their clarity!****** inspires this vast witless splutter of ac
that collapse of order that is already strain will become insupportable, and casations against them. The mental and moral method against Gorman imperial
apparent in some parts of Russia will become the dominant state of the Old fu ajas de to and breve a more power may perhaps overrate it I think most Such a League of Nations would be like
Worldwide famine, world - wide British people underrate it. For my own keeping open house with notorious bragandago, the cessation of education, part I think that these Bolsheviks are long as the German Imperial monarchy these things we step to day if today we kleptomaniae as the principal guest. So the ending of trade end traffic, towards
the
their on
well enough
Peace without a Gorman revolution cannot be a peace. It is impossible to consider any League of Nations in which
German Imperialists can take a
us to consider the advisability of a much remains so long will if dominate the uni treat this cancer of German monarchy more systematic co-operation with them,versities, the schools, and the Press of and the seret diplomatic plotting that is It enforces my view that the Bolshevika Germany and so long will the German inseparable from it, as though it were not are straight, that the Gorman diplomatists mind be poisoned by the poison of the supreme evil against which we fight and Junkers evidently like them less and nationalistsaggression. What is the good In these things seems to me the Bol less. Perhaps the Bolshevik may have of telling Miry tales about the world abovica are altother wiser and plainer Found a way to strike at the heart of the oril thing in Berlin less costly and less (Continued foor of nest Columsy
-Daily Mail.
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