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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

t 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.

"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.

missions: so many

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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 ghting men could not read or 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 is clear from all the first reporta humiliating Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, writes Sir Bernard Pares in “London Calling."

3,800,000 Losses In

Ten Montho

If that WRS 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 tho last twenty years and vaen the country as it was when they last saw it, make no mistake.

write. Now education is universul. 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

from Russia.

I saw this change coming in several recent visita to Russia. The permanent "thing" was clear-" ly the country, not the parti cular flag that happened to be planted in the soll, nor the particular letters which happen. ed to be written on it.

Communism

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 got 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 present Government repre-

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 ami-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 one of the prime causes of Russia's time, infinitely more than before, has not yet been reached, but al- but this that the final stage of Communism failure.

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 new vigour for, its defence: The rather a confusing term. The chief effect of Stalin's Five Year truest Communists that I know Plans is precisely that that pitiful are inonks of the Catholic Church lack of munitions no longer exists. Pretty well every Russian has a I was with the Russian Armies Russia is now full of machinery tinge of Socialism, and to do things throughout that time, and I know of all kinds. Rough and ready it for others as well as himself is n what the cffcct was for us at the may be, but in all probability in thing which Instinctively gives. front. On May 2, 1815, I was at larger quantities than Germany bim pleasure. Thus the construc- the spot where Mackensen first can command."

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 ing to day. I sat on a low hill, than in vague hopes of a world that the persecution of religion On the other hand, I cannot see 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 quarter of a mile. below me.

between dead against Russian nature. Stalin and Trotsky, but the whole could see for some Ave miles on point of it was this; that Trotskynet' of Karl Marx, who, something It was really a 'bee in the bon- each side; it was an unbroken stood at all costa 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, .com- -whatever from "" A soldier pass- trles.

ed me. Have you come from the development and defence of Rus man was generally in the pocket, Stalin has stood for the sidered that the country clergy- trenches?" I said. There are no sia, he took as his motto 'Social- of the squire: and without any trenches, he replied; they had all ism in one country.” been wiped out by enemy gunfire.

regard for history he made out "You know, sir," said

This means that his principal that the Church is nothing more another soldier to me, not at all as if he ism is the argument of example. From this he deduced that Jesus 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.” 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. The Stalin and his collaborators of to- division with which I was that day day have hardly ever been out- normally 10,000 was reduced side Russia. How could they run to 500; the regiment, from 4.000 a world revolution? Their task has to 41 (forty men, one officer). The been different. They have pro- figure of Russiari losses for the duced, through the work of the first ten months, which I had to Five Year Plans; a new generation bring back confidentially from the of Russians, hardened and braced the Godless is constantly com- Russian War Office to Lord Kit-by all that the country has gone plaining of the complete apathy chener, was 3,800,000 (In the through, and trained in many and futility of his followers. It is great leder of the war casualties; branches of administrative experl-years since the Minister of Educa- writes Hindenburg later, the ence. This work has offered an tion, Lunacharsky, then leader of record of the Russian losses has unlimited field of endeavour for the attack on religion. confessed been torn out. Five millions or young men in the early thirties, his failure in these notable words: eight? We shall never know. I can with responsible posts which could Relivion is like a nail; the harder only say that over and over again' we had to sweep away the heaps not have come their way in many you hit it, the deeper it goes into of Russian dend to get a free other countries.

the wood.

range on a new advancing Russian And to it has been with the "wave.")-2

Army, which is like that of Franco In 1793.

the Russian mind cannot bel

The one thina, cortain Is that

of the unseon world is its deep mado irreligious; for the "sense

idea which Russia takes from est instinct and treasure. Every

ligion-Marxism as much aa elsowhere she “turns into a. ro-

The able leader of the Union of anything else. So it has proved.

The Enemy The Russian Fighto

not fail to emplasise more and more all that is rational in Rus- sia. We all know how the Gov- ernment has been hurrying on production throughout tho. Five Year Plans. Now patriótik, meet-

In spite of all this, av Luden-In that year, Generals: somo- dorff and Hoffman constantly re-mes went to the guillotine, but, ported, the Russians, with the on the other hand, Marshal Ney All the reports from the f

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 Thalf a day) and were alwayrable that he curich in his knapsack things national and the wor tan~-

to rescue their bulging centre ho baton of a Field Marshal. from all the German attempts at encirclement; and Ludendorff concludes his sketch of the cam- paign, in which enormous : dis- tances of Russian territory wore traverted, with the verdict that: It That is probably the chief of all ings ore taking pluce in every Was nitragle disappointment, for differences between the old-Rus-factory and the men are them- he had work nothing but a tactical slan Army, and that of to-day, solves asking to double their tunics mucpons, These colossal losses Beyond that Russia has now her The Government itself has te-l were the real reason of the Rus own.technicians, trained in theverted to a language that is en- stan Revolution. In those days on administrative work of the Five tirely national. All the triumphs hardly heard the name of Mors, Year Plans. In the Tourist regimo. of the past, from the long cen- it was to come to the fore only it was practically impossible to turies 01. Tsardom, are recalled; after the Revolution.

promote many N.C.O.'s to com-land aven further back,

Army Is Fighting For Russia

FREUD FISH

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Hawkins, did Lord Hetry | Were many glasses broken ? ́empty crême de menthe "None, Sir."

amongst my goldfish in the course of last night's party 2" "Not to my knowledge, Sir. There was no crême de menthe to empty." "Then I must have dreamt it. A vivid dream, Hawkins, because their noses all turned red."

“Undoubtedly ‹ @dream, Sir, sinte I took the precaution of evacuating the bowl to my pantry when. Lord Henry began to sing.'

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Vory wise of you, Hawkins.

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“No casualties to any of the guests?"

"No, Sir. And judging from the "amount of Rose's consumed, there will be no headaches this morn- ing eaber. We got through tíc and a balf bottles of Rose's Lime Juice."

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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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