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THE NEW RUSSIA, FROM PRISON INTO UTOPIA. "THE NEED OF A CORRECTIVE,

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BY C. HAGBERG WRIGHT,]

What will huppen in Russia! No one can say with any certainty. The domin ant fact of the situation is this--Now Russia is a land of visionary thoughts. That is not in the least surprising. For centuries the Russian people has been stifled and depressed. It has had no voice in public affairs; its life has, perforce,

and sabterraneously developed reptitiously. Within the last few weeks upheavals in every part of the Russian fland have brought to light that obscure and silent work. During the days of repression Russia's life was not station ary. There was real growth, but ciroum: stances made the growth Utopian. Within the established order men found no scope for their thoughts. They saw fio possibility of making that order plastic to their thoughts, or of bringing about] a new order wherein their thoughts would be at hore. What happened? This hip pened. The thoughts which could no become practical onergies in policy of principles in reconstruction went out towards. abstract moral conceptions, Because there was no place for these thoughts in the real world around them they grew upwards towards Dreamland. The predominant facts of Russian life divorced Russian thoughts from Reality, and the thoughts thus exiled into Fantasy New Russin the mind and the hope to-day

When Russia stepped forth from her prison she stepped into Utopia, and ehe has not yet discovered that it is Utopia.

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All this is quite natural, but it is embarrassing and dangerous. If it be not corrected Russia will fall away from the great Alliance against barbarian or will stultify the Alliance by an inadequate peace:

· ANGLÖ÷KUSSIAN RELATIONS.

Our difficulty is Germany's opportunity, and she has not been slow to use ber opportunity. Into the Russian lines German aeroplanos have dropped multi plied forgeries. These purport to be copies of letters from Russian homes to Russian soldiers letters which fell into Gorman bands when the soldiers to whom they were addressed become prisoners of war. Here is one of those forgeries:--

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Dear Soldiers,You ought to know that Russin would have concluded peace long ago had it not been for England, but wa want peace-We are thirsting for it. Working men who have opportunity of making their wishes known, are demanding peace. Nobody has the right to say that the Russian workman, is against peace. England has no righ: to say that. Whatever the out some of this evil war, we cannot except any gratitude from England. Therefore we must shake ourselves free of England. This is the demand of the people. This is ita holy will

I have nothing more to write.. I am well, and hope the same of you...

Your loving brother,”

NICOLAI Another document of the same kind

relations,***

FREIGHT RATES.

Mesere. Snowman & Co., of Hongkong, in their freight circular, dated 21st July, state

FLAMING JUNE OF WAR, PLAY BEHIND THE LINES.

[FROM PHILIP aitas.). British Heauquarters (France), Since we last reported on the 7th inst.,

", । ' the strong tone of our market has been

There is enormous shell-fire along vari- maintained, time fixtures having hern

ons sectors of our front, the massed guns negotiated, on the basis of as high as $28 a ton and it is rumoured that a bursting out on both sides, after spells of Norwegian steamer, giving fairly quick quietude, into a fury of high explosive delivery, has been fixed for a full year upon places of evil renown the ground at a rate working out at over 828 a ton. Au anticipated, the Saigon/Hongkong about the six black tree-stumpy of Bulle- rate has firmed somewhat, and tourage court and the broken Hindenburg Line has been fixed at 81, two medium-sized out-

as high as siders no $1.05, and 2 small outsiders at long the Cojul Valley, Baming north- 31.10, and also a small Japanese, for a wards to lens and far north number of trips, at this rate. The fixture the Xpres salient, where never, for near- is also reported of a medium-sized regular coaster for a dozen roundtrips at 849,000 is three years, has there been any rest for lampsum per trip, which would rather the gunners. So, without much infantry tend to show the rate is in the ascendant. fighting, except quick raids for body At time of going to press howevery snatching and machine-gun grabbing-up charterers are prepared to fix at $1.10 per picul, but owners are standing out at slightly higher figures, $1.15 and $1.20 having been offered but finding no takers. Exports of rice from Saigon from 1st January to 26th June, 1917, amount to 470,739 tops as compared with 544,771 tons for the same period last year Quotation for No. 2 White round sifter rice stands at $3.65 per picul f.o.b. Saigon for July/August, shipment.

SAIGON/JAVA, SAIGON/PHILIPPINES, AND BA100N/JAPAN remain as last reported.

we last BANGKOK HONGKONG.--When went to press, the rate in this direction stood at about $1.20/81.05 for inside outside the bar loading respectively These figures have since appreciated and tonnage is now required at $1.40 and $1 respectively.

north last, night there was a successful attack on the electric power station by Lis, which i saw ander henry bombard neut a week or two ago--ften are wound- ed and maimed and killed in sunlight and moonlight, and the Red Cross on many ambulances burns its way along the roads, the dusty, crowded roads of war. rs brought in singly or in small batches which aid up to big numbers for a month's ing, are men of broken nerve,. who speak with horror of our bombard

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ments, which have smashed up their trenches, and over a belt of country ten miles wide have followed them along the roads into their billets, blown up their ammunition dumps, made hell about their railheads, and buried many of them in their dug-vots: The German artillery retaliates, not in the same measure, but powerful in the number of batterics, and with no lack of ammunition, so that the fres of hate are well fed from their side, and our men have to suffer the abomina tion of them. It is finming: June-the

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A FOUNDER OF SEATTLE'S

FOREIGN TRADE.

of shell craters and barren earth there is a glorious beauty-fields of red clover and fields of golden flowers. The trees are in full leaf, rich and dense, and alight with chestnut and may, grass and butter- cups. The wheat is already whitening SAID TORNAGE LOADING OR TO LOAD., the ear for an early harvest, and the roads of war are white with dust, which blows up like smoke in the trail of the moving columns of transport, thules, guns, lorries, and marching me. The troops are powdered so that they seem to wear white asks under their steel hats. Despatch The remarkable strides in foreign trade rides, weaving like shuttles through the tangled skons of the traffic, are grotaque achieved by Seattle and other Puget figures, as rugh they had rolled them Sound ports during the past few years, selves in flour before mounting their motor bikes. But, underneath the dust the and the large number of shipping und faces of our men are burnt to the stain furcign trade commercial houses now at mahogany. Many of our "troops era. having headquarters or branches in the now wearing shorts, as though going to Great Northwest section of the Pacific football fields instead of battlefields, and Coust, naturally directs attention to the 2 gives chese boys a fine easy look as they few men who pioneers Seattle's commercome swinging along under their heavy cial development, and among these (says

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Uniform, White &ith Helmets. Friday, July 27th.No.

Section, Central, 5.45 p.m. Monday, July 30th.-No. 2 Company,

Central, 5.45 p.m. fursday, July 31st-No.

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Thursday, August 2nd.--No.- Company,

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BARANG TONGA BAND PRACTICES.

the Pacific Marine Review) none played Packs Christian in the Pilgrim's Pro Band Practice on Friday, July 27th, and

gress

dials with the question of Anglo-Russia Waterhouse and a few others paved, the st. Inglist were sold hear"

LONDON'S LADS.

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Monday, July 30th. No exemption will be granted except by the unders signed.

(Signed) J. W. FRANKS, Acting D.B.P. (R.).

25th July, 1917.

Roman Catholic padre, to whom his own men are devoted, ecause be niso has cour age and sympatay. Years ago I met him

older lawn, when another band was laying to crowds 61 boys who have learnt their last lesson-so many of them-ia thu

Cheers rang out There was a

did not carry a heavier burden more important or more daring part with the sweat making runnels down their than Mr. Frank Waterhouse. Indeed, it faces in the bent of the day. Tavir lips be justly said that the efforts of Mr. are too dry to whistle. Wayside notices are mocking Is it just that treaties concluded by the way for changing the status of Puget words to men whose thirst must wait for former Rasting Government should bind Sound from a provincial arm of the sea the end of a march. Behind the batteries the new Government and the Revolutions to one ci tim centres of vetan-horn; come in action the gunners work stripped to ary people?" Oving to mistakes of the old mere known to and seriously considered the waist, and their skin is bronzing to! Government, he are not now masters in by every international trader the world the colour of ripe wheat. From rids our own house we are still England's | over.

away from the zone of fire, yet not beyond servants. But till England trouble her- In reaching out for business, buying carsant of the guns, and behind whi self about our fati? Hardly! la it a cargo here and there and taking chunees washed cottages and smouldering old thinkable that row when we have the that few cared to follow, Waterhouse barns, which the the billets of British opportunity of speaking out what we fol, blazed the way until the people of soldiers resting between one battle and that we shall not rectify this mistake! Is Seattle began fully to realize that the another, there comes all day long, until Brim school of war. it conceivable that now when the fate of city's hopes for a really great future lay the evening shadows creep down the tree galu, roars of laughter. Russins is in the hunds of the people-we on the sens and Seattle began to make trunks and stretch across the meadows, 100 yards race between fiold officers, and shall continue to uphold that covetous marvellous gains in population, wealth the sound of music.

a colonel won it, panting to a fine finish. There was a tremendous tug-of-war, de- heast of prey, England. Let England

and commerce. To-day the firm of Frank fight her own battles, but lut Iussia have Waterhouse & Co. carries on a business I followed the music yesterday through liriously exicting.

AN IMITATION " DERBY.” Pete and rest. There has been enough practically all over the world. With head an old French archway and past a midden

But the great event of the afternoon was shedding of blood.

ofEces in Seattle and branches in Van- and between two rows of Nissen huts like The Russkor Slovn sadly remarks that couver and Victoria, British Columbia, caravans without their wheels, and came an initation Derby, with comic characters, the Germans are giving themselves much Portland, Taconia and San Francisco en into a field where one of the bands was including a real jockey, a Red Indian

Pyjamas annessary, trouble, for the same things the Pacific Coast of the United States, playing. My guide was a young officer and Widow I Panties Peroy"> are being spontaneously written and said and New York in the Fast, they carry on of the Kensingtonseed who has rowed from a lady of his billet with a

Do you know and Twanky by Russians. In the columns of thista vast shipping, commission and ware Iveta Lardens'!!! paper. a well-known Russian writer-housing business, operate docks and been in every great battle since the white umbrella, with which he strolled Yablonski-propounds an answer.

coaling plants have a lighterage busi autumn of 1914, including this last great down the course making insulting remarks to the crowd. All the spirit of London It is not our official answer that indeed ness: & consting freight service Bound, and it is a good deal, about the Ypres was hero, hi ite cockney humour, on this

battle. He knows all there is to know has very little weight, outside lands where lines of steamers from Puget

and held of France behind the battle-line. the English, tongue is native Yoblonski British Columbia and San Francisco to salient and Neuve Chapcils does not mention-apparently he does not Vladivostock, Japan, China, Manila and Hébuterne, and the big push last July one of them were having an uproarious Joseyt--the stately definitions of a moral the Sirait Settlements, and when he went over at Commscourt, and time zound some comrades acting us in- purpose which dignified oar declaration The Company's interests in the Fat was left alone with a poor remnant of his aginary bookmakers, with all the patter Four to one on tho of war. His answer is a forcible piece of East, as our readers know, are represent men, when all his brother officers bad of Epsom Downs.

Five to one bar one!** Realpolitik It runs thus

ed by Messrs. Jardins, Matheson & Co., fallen-and about High Wood, when there field

Don't forget the old firm | "

"Will Let us be quite frank. No nation in the Lid.

were dreadful days for London man, and wide world is a Don Quixoto. Of course,

Lousy Wood, when there were worse you have a favourite, sir, or an ont England is zo, fighting for love of beantí"

days. He talked like an old, old soldier, sider, If you can't pay in cash, pay ful Russian eyes. She is not fighting barbarians we are--it is the brutal very wise in war and can you believe in iron rations; Woodbines will be accept because the Germans behaved badly in negation of all that New Russia thinks it? he is now 19 years of age. With ed. as paper money! Queer, isn't it?** Belgium. No from a feeling of and feris. Further, German supremacy this young Napoleon of Kensington said a man by my side. In the last humanity the British would like very on the Continent would be a disaster for went through the French farmyard and show that fellow was buried much to help Belgium, but in this war us all, but it would be a greater disaster to be held where the band was playing, burst. And that other chap hoa comic they are primarily following their own for Russia than for England. These are and there all around the field were those lad-killed three Germans single-handed. " interests. What really matters, however, primary facts, and they can be made pre men of London whose fighting 1 described The man by my side drew me apart a at this historic moment, is the fact that dominant facts, but to make them pro a week or two ago. Do you remember the little, and spoke of his wife and children, Russian and British interests coincide, dominant is work for a first-rate mind machine gun fire they had to face, and and of old London, which is such a long We Russians are fighting to save our skin; Let the Government act at once. We the storia of shells that were flung over way off, and of the war, which seems to Great Britain fighting to keep Germany | cannot afford to lose a moment.

them, and the way they stuck it out in last for over We hope and hope for from attaining a world-wide hegemony. In a striking, Easter Message the the frightful hours when medical officers the end," he said, "but it seems a long As we have a common foe, why should we distinguished novelist Merejkovsky and stretcher bearers worked in light and way off. Days like this are good," he not fight him together? Two fats are attempts to link the resurr ction of darkness, while young subalterns with added, "One forgets what one has been good, but surely four are better! No Russia with the resurrection of Christ handfuls of men attacked the German through, and the things that are coming Britain is not in the least like Dun the Red Egg with the Red Flag

machine-gun emplacements, and stormed It does the mon a power of good They Quixote, but if even one bit of Russian We have not yet seen the Risen Christ, their way through the German lince, and just fling themselves into all the fun while skin can be saved by the help of English but we have already seen the great earth held lines of shell-holes against heavy laste. People at home, don't under-

It is only recent his stand. They don't understand." guns, why not use that help

quake, and the stone rolled away from the counter-attacks,

One of the imaginary bookmakers came I do not make Yablonski's

answer my sepulchre, and the guards who became as tory, but yesterday, while the band play own, but his answer is adequate, and if dead, and the Angel with a countenanced, it was forgotten. This was the eports to me with a box of snuff. Take a what is more shows us the way like lightning-the Ang of the Revolu- day of the London men, and they were pinch, sir, my missus and I always used which we can best help Russia

tion-who said unto us, Christ is risen Russians zeed no proof that Englishmen Thus does his message end. But is that making the most of its peace and can to enjoy a little snuff between the races on stand for domestic freedom. On the other really the last word? No. The Resurree shine and laughter, making the most of Derby Day. I learned the habit in every glorious minute of it Laughter biscuit factory down Farringdon-road, hand, nothing is to he gamed by sending tion was not followed by the millennium and cheers swept continuously along all I took a pinch, and all the men langhed workingmen to Russia with or without Wo read of n Descent of the Spirit, ond sides of that hollow square about the play loudly because I sneered with violence.

field. They laughed and cheered Red Indian's horse was scattering the Ruwian people that we also are the Resurrection gradually subdued. Utopians. We are not Utopians and the itself the wills and affections of sinful and doctors riding on French toneshakers and laughter rose all the time above the

hearts Russians know that we are not, but

men," and gradually prepared the What, then, should we do? We should of men to be living stones in the ever over rough ground, and won by a long music of the band. The colonel smiled, the ever legged Church of England padro who has and said, "This is what helps us to carry send to Russia sopieong, with a construe lasting city of God:

walked with them on many a field of on. We should never have got as far The Word tive political mind of the very first order,

So must it be in Russia.

battle and comforted them in body and this war without a sense of humour, and his work should be, not (sincerely or aust become Flesh! Utopian ideas must soul in many hours of horror with a me the way back I went into an old harn sophistically) to minimize our war aitas, lay aside their abstractness and must devotion and utter truthfulness of spirit which had been made into a chapel. but to make the common practical interest submit their truth to the gradual appro which will have nothing to do with Shafts of light struck alant the twisted of the two countries the basis of a large ximations which alone are possible within falsity, which slurs over the frightful con beams. An old peasant woman came ont- peonies an a and effective co-operation,

historical conditions. It will not be easy fict between Christian ideals and the side and held out a bunch of We should not waste time in vain efforts for the Russian people thus to domicile devilries of war, so that his men got love gift to the London me Along the to make Utopian ideas military energies their thoughts nothing could help them him with their doubt, and despaire, and

roads again white dust swirled-about the The practical situation is ultimate, and more effectively than large fellowship with find a hawan, honest understanding troops on the march going up to the line can be made decisive New Russia is as us in a common effort determined by that heart close second to him was again after such a day as this, when war much opposed to the Mochipolitek of supreme need which the war has made

was forgotton in the playing fielde. common to us and them--The Times. (Continued at foot of next column.)

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