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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941.

RUSSIANS ARE FIGHTING FOR RUSSIA

WHEN WE WERE FACED by the sudden inva- sion of Russia by Germany, Mr. Churchill, with a single broad stroke of statesmanship, noting all the obstacles only to dispose of them, declared at once the unanimous decision of our Government to give. all possible help to anyone who was fighting Hitler, and this motto has been repeated already by several American statesmen. We all support Mr. Churchill in this, whatever our difference of opinion.

He himself was the leading figure here in the Anti-Bolshevik intervention in the latter phases of the last war. He was Minister for War. The friend- ly provisional Government of Russia had kept Rus sia's engagements and tried to continue the war on our side with an army which had been wiped out and renewed three times over.

"QUARANTINE GERMANY"

After the war there must be some sort of quarantine for Ger many, some sort of international arrange- ment to keep her under control for some time, said M. Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Min- ister to Great Britain in London.

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FREUD FISH

Hawkins, did Lord Henry empty crême de menthe amongst my goldfish in the course of last night's party ? "^^ "Not to my knowledge, Sir. There was no crême de mentheto empty.” "Then I must have dreamt it. A vivid dream, Hawkins, because their noses all turned

red." When it was swept ghting men could not read or But I am sure that what was good

away by the irresistible desire for peace and gave way to the Bolsheviks, we naturally could not turn' our backs on those Russians who still insisted on fighting on our side, by so doing, repudiating the humiliating Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, writes Sir Bernard-Pares-in London Calling.”

If that WRE the Russian soldier, even in those terrible conditions, he has a very differ ent task now. Let those who have not been in Russia for the last twenty years and soon the country as it was when they last saw it, make no mistake. The present Government repre-

in the old Army remains in the new; and they are fighting for Russia, not for Communism. This is clear from all the first reports from Russia.

I caw this change coming la „several „recent_vlaits to Ruosia. The permanent thing was clear- ly the country, not the parti cular flag that happened to he planted in the coil, 'nor the particular letters which happen. ed to be written on it.

Communism

As to Communism, I do not dis-

Mr. Churchill is saying now the same thing as he said then: 'We are for those who fight the chal- lenge of Germany.' He fastened at once on the point that the Rus- sian people are now defending their homes against the same world aggressor as ourselves. It was the same in the last war. The Tsar was the symbol of Russia: but apart sents the Russian people with a miss it offhand. If the Russians from that he had very little to do vigour and reality which the dy-choose to practice it, that is their with it; in fact, his weak and aml-ing regime of the Tsar could never affair. As a matter of fact, it is able personality, dominated by a claim. fanatically autocratic wife was fighting for his home:

Every Russian is again the official view in Russia to-day but this that the final stage of Communism one of the prime causes of Russia's time, inanitely more than before, has not yet been reached, but al- he feels his own share in his ready there are no more class dis- country and has been braced to a tinctions. Communism - may be The new vigour for its defence. The rather a confusing term. chief effect of Stalin's Five Year truest Communists that 1. know Plan is precisely that that pitiful are monks of the Catholic Church lack of munitions no longer exists. Pretty well every Russian has a Russia is now full of machinery tinge of Socialism, and to do things of all kinds. Rough and ready it for others as well as himself is a may be, but in all probability in thing which instinctively gives larger quantities than Germany him pleasure. Thus the construc- can command.

tive work of the Five Year Plans.

fallite.

3,800,000 Losses, In

Ten Months

to

I was with the Russian Armies throughout that time, and I know what the effect was for us at the front. On May 2, 1915, I was at the spot where, Mackensen first] broke through in the great -drive Since Stalin's triumph over which is hot for the benefit of in- which swept us out of Galicia and Trotsky in 1828, Russia has taken dividual millionuires, appeals far back to the Pinsk Marshes far more interest in her own de-him irresist bly. where the Russian Army is fight velopment, and her own defence On the other hand, I cannot sec ing 10-day. I sht on a low hill, than in vague hopes of a world that the persecution of religion with the great range of the Car-revolution. Probably Americans need have anything to do with pathian Mountains in front of me, know a great deal more than we Communism; and certainly it is and the action was going on ajdo about the struggle · between dead against Russian nature. quarter of a mile below me. Stalin and Trotsky, but the whole It was really a bee: in the bon- could see for some five miles on point of it was this: that Trotskynet of Karl Marx, who, something each side; it was an unbroken stood at all costs for going on like a hundred years ago, living line of enemy fire, with no reply sowing sedition in all other coun-in England, not in Russia, con- whatever from ***. A soldier pass-tries. Stalin has stood for the sidered that the country clergy- cd me. 'Have you come from the development and defence of Rus- man was generally in the pocket, trenches? I said. There are no sia, he took as his motto Social- of the squire, and without my trenches, he replied; they had all ism in one country,'-

regard for history he made out been wiped out by enemy, gunfire. } **,

"This means that his principal that the Church is nothing more You know, sir,' said another soldier to me, not at all as if he argument for the merits of Social than a support for Capitalism. were complaining, we have only All the earlier Bolsheviks were Christ was a capitalist.

ism is the argument of example. From this he deduced that Jesus one, weapon the soldier's breast conspirators, who had spent most Men can die where they stand, but of their life abroad, and for them they cannot beat metal if they world revolution was everything. have no metal of their own. Stalin and his collaborators of to- division with which I was that dy day have hardly ever been out- -normally 16,000 was reduced to 500; the regiment, from 4,000 side Russia. How could they run

a world revolution? Their task bas elsewhere she turns Into aro- to 41 (forty men, one officer). The been different. They have pro- •ligion Marxism as much as figure of Russian losses for the first ten months.. which I had to duced, through the work of the anything else. So it has proved. Five Year Plans, a new generation The able lender of the Union of bring back confidentially from the Russian War Office to Lord Kit of Russians, hardened and braced the Godless is constantly com- by all that the country has goneplaining of the complete apathy chener, was 3,800,000-('In the

through, and trained In many and futility of his followers. "It is great ledrer of the war casualties, branches of administrative expert-years since the Minister of Educa writes Hindenburg. later, *the record of the Russian losses has ence. This work has offered an tion, Lunacharsky then leader of unlimited field of endeavour for the attack on religion. - confessed been torn out. Five millions-or, eight? We shall never know, I can Young, men in the early thirties, his failure in these notable words: only say that over and over again with responsible posts which could Religion is like a nail, the harder We had to sweep away the heaps not have come their way in many vou hit it the deeper it goes into

other countries,

of Russian dead to get a free range on a new advancing Russian waye')

"The one thing certain is that the Russian mind cannot be made irreligious; for the sense of the unseen world. Is its deep 'est instinct' and treasure. Every

idea which Russia takes from

the wood. And so it has been with the Army, which la, like that of Franca sin 1793.km), DA MITAA

The Enemy The Russian Fights

In spite of all this, as Luden. In that year, Centrals, some dorf and Hoffman constantly re- times went to the guillotine, but, ported, the Russians, with the on the other hand, Marshal Ney All the reports from the front fiercest rearguard actions regard came through from Corporal 20 so for show that the Russian Jess of all losses, retreated, only General of a division; and from soldier. Is fighting with equal step by step (the Third Caucasian that time as Napoleon put it vigour and more initiative than in Corps, for instance, a mile and a every private soldier could feel the last war. They are before all half a day) and were always able that he carried in his knapsack things national and the war Lans to rescue their bulging centra the baton of a Field Marshal.

Army Is Fighting

For Russia.

not fail to empliadise more and more all that is nationat in Rus- sia. We all know how the Gov- ernment has been hurrying on production throughout the Five Year Plans Now patriotic meet-

from all the Germian attempts at encirclement, and Ludendorf concludes his sketch of the can-l paign, in which enormous "dis-" tances of Russian territory were Traversed, with the verdict that it That is probably the chief of all lings are taking place in overý was a "tragle disappointment, for differences between the old. Rus-factory and the men are thom ho had won noliing but a tactical sian Army and that of to-day. selven asking to double their tasks. success. These colossal losses Beyond that Russia has now her The Government itself Hourẻ were the real reason of the Rus own technicians, trained in the verted to n-langunge; that is, un- alan Revolution. In those days bite hdministrative work of the Fivotirely rational. All the triumphs hardly heard the name of Marx, Year. Plans. In the Tsarist regime of the past, from the long con- It was to come to the fore only it was practically impossible to turies" of Tardom, are recalled; after, the Revolution.

promote many N.C,Os to com- land even further back."

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Undoubtedly va dream, Sir, since I took the precaution of evacuating - the bowl to my pantry when Lord Henry began to sing.”

Very wise of you, Hawkins.

Try

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Were many glasses broken

None Sir."

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No casualties to any of the guesta?"

"No, Sir. And judging from the amount of Rose's consumed, there will be no beadaches this morn- ing either. We got through six and a half bottles of Rose's Lime [Juice."

*Well) it's all in a good cause. And now, get me a really big. breakfast. And give the gold- fish a double ration of ants'. eggs, just to celebrate their hairbreadth escape.”

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