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THE CHINA MAIL SEPTEMBER 29, 1941.

RUSSIANS ARE FIGHTING FOR RUSSIA "QUARANTINE

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. When it was swept 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.”

-Mr-Churchill is saying now they that was the Russian 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 arc how defending their homes against the same world; aggressor as ourselves. It was the same in the last war. The Tsar was

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

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missions: so many of the best fighting men could not read or write. Now education is universal. But I am sure that what was good 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 saw this change coming in several recent visits to Russia. The permanent thing, was clear. ly the country, not the

the part- cular flag that happened to be planted in the soll, пог the garticular letters which happen- ed to be written' on It.

Communism

As to Communism, I do not dis-

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 fanatically autocratic wife. was one of the prime causes of Russia's failure.

3,800,000 Losses In

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claim. Every Russian is again fighting for his home; but this time, infinitely more than before, he feels his own share in his country and has been braced to a new vigour for its defence. The chief effect of Stalin's Five Year Plans is precisely that that pitiful lack of munitions no longer exists. Russia is guy, full of machinery of all kinds. Rough and ready it may be, but in all probability in larger quantities than Germany can command,

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the official view in Russia to-day that the final stage of Communism has not yet been reached, but al- ready there are no more class dis- tinctions. Communism, may rather a confusing term. The truest Communists that I know are monks of the Catholic Church. Pretty well every Rússian has a I was with the Russian. Armies

tinge of Socialism, and to do things throughout that time, and I know

for others as well as himself is, a what the effect was for us at the

thing which instinctively gives front. On May 2, 1915, I was at

him pleasure. Thus the construc- the spot where Mackensen first

tive work of the Five Year Plans broke through in the great drive Since Stalin's triumph

over which is not for the benefit of in- which swept us out of Galicia and Trotsky in 1928, Russia has taken dividual millionaires, appeals to far back to the Pinsk Marshes far more interest in her own de-¡him irresistibly. where the Russian Army is fight velopment, and her own defence On the other hand, I cannot see ing to-day. I sat 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 ado 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 Trotsky net' 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- whatever from ". A soldier pass-tries.

in England, not in Russia, con- Stalin has stood for the sidered that the country clergy- ed 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 trenches, he replied; they had all ism in one country.'

any 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

argument for the merits of Social- than a support for Capitalism.. soldier to me, not at all as if heism is the argument of example. From this he deduced that Jesus were complaining, we have only All the earlier Bolsheviks were Christ was a capitalist. one weapon-the soldier's- hroust:' Men can die where they stand, but of their life abroad, and for them

conspirators, who had spent most The one thing certain is that] the Russian mind cannot be{ they cannot beat metal if they

world revolution was everything. made: irreligious for the. Bensa. have no metal of their own.. The Stalin and his collaborators of to- division with which I was that day day have hardly ever been out-

of the unseen world is its deep- est instinct and, treasure. Every -normally 16,000-was reduced

idea which Russia takes from to-500; the regiment, from 4.000 Side Russia. How could they run

elsewhere she turns Intona_ro- to 41 (forty men, one officer). The world revolution? Their task has

ligion-Marxism áð much ad figure of Russian losses for the first ten months. which I had to Five Year, Plans, a new generation

anything else. So it has proved. bring back confidentially from the of Russians, hardened and braced the Godless is constantly

The able leader of the Union of Russian War Office to Lord Kit chener, was 3,800,000 (In the by all that the country has gone plaining of the complete apathy great ledger of the war casualties through, and trained in many and futility of his followers. It is branches of administrative expori-years since the Minister of Educa- writes Hindenburg. Jater, the record of the Russian losses has ence. This work has offered, an tion, Lunacharsky. then leader of been torn out. Five millions or unlimited field of endeavour for the attack on religion. confessed eight? We shall never know, I can Young men in the carly thirties, his failure in these notable words; only say that over and over again with responsible posts which could Religion is like a nall; the harder we had to sweep away the heaps not have come their way in many you hit it, the deeper it goes into

other countries. of Russian dead to, get a free

the wood.' range on a new advancing Russian waye.");

been different. They have pro- duced, through the work of the

And to it has been with the Army, which la like that of Franco in 1793

The Enemy The Russian Fighto

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not fall to empliąsise more and more all that is national in Rus- sia, We all know how the Gov- ernment has been hurrying... on production throughout the Five Yeur Plans. Now patriotic meet-

In spite of all this, as Luden. In that year, Generals some- dorit 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 to so far show that the Russian less 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 Inapsack things national, and the war to rescue their --bulging centre the baton of a Field Marshal. from all the German attempts at encirclement; ; und ⠀ Ludendorft concludes his sketch of the cam- paign, in which enormous, dis- tances of Rusalan territory were traversed with the verdict that it] "That is probably the chief of all ings are taking place in every was a tragic disappointment, for differences between the old Rus factory and the men are them- he had won nothing but a tactical slan Army and that of to-day: selves asking to double their tasks. success. These colonsul Josues Beyond that Russia has now her The Government itself has S were the rebl reason of the Rus-own- technicians, trained in theverted to a language that is en- nian Revolution, In those days or administrative works of the Five tirely national. All the triumpha hardly heard the name of Marx, Year Plans. In the Tsarist regime of the pust, from the long cen-| it was to come to the fore only it was practically impossible to turies of Tandom, are reculled; after the Rovolutioni

promote many N.C.O.'s to com-and even further back,

Army is righting For Russia

FREUD FISH

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

« Undoubtedly a 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.

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Ware many glasses broken ? *

None, Sir."!

'No casualties to any of the gucats?"

"No, Str. And judging from the amount of Rose's consumed, there will be no headaches 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 anta egge, just to celebrate their hairbreadth escape-

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