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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2078, 1915,

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVISM. DISCIPLINE

[BY THE TIMES PETROGRAD

of the

not

CORRESPONDENT ]:

RAID.

These seemed to indicate a stout con RECORD BRITISH BOMBING fidence on the part of the men towarda their officers. As a matter of fact, they were not always due to such motives.

The remarkable flight of the British scroplates from Loudun to Constantino.

The non felt their own cutter incapacityple was celebrated on December 13th at

a gathering, principally composed of expert, at the Cald Royal, pays the Daily News. The machine which accom plished the journey was a Handloy-Page-

Royce 975 hp engines. There were five battle-plane, furnished with two Rolls-

people on board Commander Savory and Lieut. McClellan (who alternately acted as pilots), Lieut. Rawlings, and two mechanics.

The airmen took their beds and bed-

Exploited by the Bolshevik extremists to deal with committee work. They also the revolutionary movement was largely had their doules as to the legality of the directed against discipline in the Army committees, and though; it would be hot and Navy A disorganized force of arm-ter to have the officers implented. Very ed men promised impunity for Social Boon it became evident to the officer-niem istic experiments Herein the Bolsheviks bers that they were the tools of the Bal and their Socialist friends were equally shevik wire-pullers, and that a systema interested; both feared the possibility of the watch was kept upon their actions. a popular reaction backed by disciplined They lived in an atmosphere of mistruat troops, But disorganization also pro and suspicion. Very few were able to mised a cessation of hostilities, an escape ita deadening influence. The ex- inglorious, dishonourable, but early ceptions were men who exercised a an Peace, The Bolsheviks openly avowed cural gift of eartying an audience with ding with them, and the journey of the this purpose in order to capture the car thorn. An officer's record in battlo or machine weighing six ton, with equip of the ignorant masses who were tired other high personal qualities counted for ment, was accomplished in 36 hours to their base, where they started off to Their Socialist allice woro little. WET.

Stump oratory, witticisms, and bombard the Gueben, the object of their so_rash............. They realized that a repartes were the main requisites. Many journey. It was more than the flight separate peace was beyond the range of of the best officers would not stoop to Pullman car" said Mr. Handley Pago of an acroplane, it was the flight of a practical politics; that it meant a volan such methods of acquiring popularity. There was no trouble with the motors, tary surrender to Germany, and that the Some-t very few-good men thought it but the half-hour spent over Constan- nation would never assent to and would worth while. Others, less scrupulous, tinople resulted in one engine suffering basely avowing Bolshevik doctrines, used and 20 bullets finding their way into the never forgive such an act of treachery. their influence for selfish purposes. This framework of the machine. The flight Besides, a separate peace would involve murity did incalculable hariu. It is was an epoch in the military history of the immediate and disorderly demobilizat an exaggeration to say that the worst aviation, and pointed to the possibilities. mutinies in the Army and Navy were of aircraft landing a million of men tion of all Russia's armed forces, with invariably directed by such officers. and bombing a hostile capital in the consequences that appalled the innging A SCAPEGOAT

future within a few minutes of a declara...... tion of war. It was also a lesson for Thus we find the Socialists con- Among those who thought it worth the uses of aircraft in peace times, us sciously aiding and abetting disorganiza. while we must include Generals Bras America would be as close to London loff, Tcheremisoff, and Yorkhovsky. The tion in their own selfish interest, yet first, at the very outbreak of the Revoluto moto as Edinburgh was a century moved by similar motives, repudiating tion, made obeisance to the mob of sol- The machine that had gone to the East one of its logical consequences a disdiers who surrounded his headquarters.

This lack of a0 was rewarded with the post of had communiqué, on schedule time after its gen- arrived, according to the Admiralty cralissimo when General Alexeieff

tion

honourable nence,

Ho

straightforward policy among the Social found it impossible to reconcile his sense 2,000 mile journey without any altera

of honour and duty with the revolution- tion in its equipment. Unfortunately, ists has enabled the Bolsheviks to carry ary experiments adopted by M. Kerensky, neither Commander Savory nor any of

on their propaganda with almost unin And when the latter's efforts to induce his companions was able to be present. terrupted success.

the

Commies to assume the The only communication about then was.

offensive

In previons articles some idon has been given of the overthrow of discipline by General Prikaz (Order of the Day) No. 1 and the

or ex:

note

fruitful only of disaster, that they were "busy killing Germans." became the scapegunt The itinerary of the journey was

Practically evory General

of any Hendon, Paris, Lyons, Avignon, Mac- to the

thescilles. Spezzia, Plaa, Rome, Naples,

re-entered

Declaration of Soldiers Hights. The ons Committee system ple and re Otranta, Albania, Salonika. was the work of the Bolsheviks, the service as volo The veteran The machine carried 10 bombs. The

an

in the Army was tired

or was dismissed. tremists, in the Soviet (Council of men's and Soldiers' Delagates): the other General Irmanoff,

comniand of the was the enactment issued by M. Korentky Third Caucasian Corps had illustrated missed the Goeben, although they caught the first salvo of four dropped from 800 feet sanctioning the Bolshevik order to some of the most brilliant pages in the one or two destroyers lying alongside. and aggravating some of its worst history of the war, became a simple pri- The Goeben put her lights out, but on tures

Ostensibly intended for the vate Thousands of officers sought to maneuvring round a second time, the Petrograd

garrison, the Prikaz was cir exchange into the Allied Armies.

bombing was successful. Two bombs culated by

agencies throughout the country. It was not signed and bor. General Korniloff tried to paralyse the were dropped on the vessel in the Bos- no indication of origin b but it was print evils of the Committee system by estab-phorus on which the German General ed in the form an order that was fishing the death penalty and, with the Staff was staying and two on the Turkish quite sufficient to impress the ignor Kaledin, to restore beder in the coun-

aid of the Cossacks under General War Office aid seamen with a firm belief in Its genuineness. Any attempt on the try. But the Cossack hoets could not be and the Bolshevilis part of officers to discredit it provoked assembled in time

The circumstances in which Admiral suspicion against them and only served were able to disorganize the movement. Viren. Nepenin, Nebolsin, and man

General Korniloff's plan the Bolshevik purpose to sow discord for the moment. It will have to be car other gallant officers were done to death,

officers and their men ried out before Russia's armed forces and slaughtered like cattle burned at WORK OF THE AGITATORS her internal economy revert to a formal stake or dropped alive through holes a Prikaz No. 1 laid down the principle state. A strong authority must arise the ice the loathsome orgies that was that all men being equal, the soldier which shall disperse the Bolsheviks enacted over the body of their murdered Admiral by the seamen at Helsingits, and anilor owed no obedience to anybody Unce their disintegrating power is Am who had been appointed to command eliminated the Committee system will he him that, in short, respect and obedience lose its dangerous features and rapidly subjected during their search for the

decline. Not till then could not be enforced. It was a danger gus doctrine, tempting to the primitive peasant who had been serving with the colours; it appealed with overwhelming force to the scarce disciplined garrisons and reserve troops in the rear. The crews of the Baltic and Black Sea Tine and

between the bio

cumbed

to it. But in the Army a

and

has failed

WOMEN'S BATTALIONS.

remaine

of

and

brutality to which

their loved

orphans vore

abominations

were the handiase aided and abited Sagitators, Petrograd

Finnish Socialists und German spies.

Fof runkenness, naturally followed in the

When sobered, mutiny. at what they had done, the was tied to their new masters by

ound

hatred of authority, vor

thair sink into the Godowns of the Hongko Navy alike, the full effect of the troops into a sense of duty. It is to the their fear and Picity in orime sharing and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Comppaign against discipline became Limited Kowloon, and

and stored only when Bolshevik agitators credit of Russian manhood and woman.

red at Const tink and expo VETNEY Amaral floods in on the Petrograd garrison Coming But what could they do noted by the spectre of just

All broken, chufed,

the most

viralent form.

dam they cannot be

No Clainis will be simitted after the Giek after its appearance they stopped salut age peasant does not approve

disarm

rank,

off

came the

Unable to apply a remedy, the moderate Socialists encouraged palliatives in the formation of shock or death" bat talions, composed of male and female volunteers. These units were to lend attack and to shame the conscripted the bonds of

to stimulate insubordination | noe

hoed that such devoted

people were forth labria Grodent when Boys Mod to immediate neighbours of Kron- the rocion they were the tele

against

the committee

must retribu all pervading advocacy of selfishness officers had no authority, but they stuck system. The amined on SATURDAY, 231

23rd Inst.. at 10 AM. All Claims must be presented within Frequ

Panstadt und Vyborg and the fleet at Helsing

ungrudgingly bore Days of the Bicamera antral here, afte which fore took the prikat discase first and in first to suffer and there was no one to humiliation and

contumely, Immediately

up their depleted ranks. The aver death daily and hourly in the hope

risk off volun-A

Jun some time their patience would be re trors. In his primitive conception of

of warded. Their efforts were have left the GodoWER, and mil Grooda remsiting Bing their officers: a few hours they military service the volunteer!

partly suc undelivered after the 25th Lust, will to bear off insignia of

cers, best and kill them Regimental bo either a fool or a person who must ceasful. The Fleet put out to sen. Some work was done. But there has been to lose. One of the women's no

good m604 were invaded and wrecked, and hops going into action was deserted went change in the situation. minds of deserters disorganized rail by ita flanking units. The men belonging than other But one scoundrel in the military

ships have behaved better way, truftic Soldiers monopolized the to dress units hold a pacifist niceting be committee could always poison a whole tramways Soldiers usurped the munthind the lines while the women were fight ship's crew Bo

miling against desperate odds and then seditious agitation, the mentre of cipal franchise. tary Bedlam, in which the Cossacks and cheered the survivors as they withdrew

Petrograd remained active it cavalry tried to introduce a from their untenable positions. nible to count upon the men, especially was impos the semblance of orders t

to

Fraternization with the enemy ocased na contact with these centres was pre The Committer system was accepted by after the Bolshevik experiment had boon served by means of the wireless which

necessary evil

tried

without advancing the cause of was in the hands of the Bolsheviks of officers had been peace. The Austrians and Germans had After a time the Black Sea Fleet caught destroyed there remained no other way taken advantage of these brotherly de the contagion Admiral Kolchak, of keeping the men together and presory-monstrations to note down the position gallant leader, was deposed by his men. ing a Bomblance of organization. Then of all machine gun and artillery emplace came the natural tendency to elect officers. ments and to lay telephone The men

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THERAPION NAI THERAPION THERAPION NI

on active service at the front should.

elected in their places Nevertheless, the

did frequently men

dismiss their com manders, often a result of calumny i the committee, and in some case mat treated and oven murdered them. T

have provided a barrim to wholesale in and in some casos did release then Ones their the Bolshevik organization is deroved, subordination. But, in common

with

Allies,

the Russian scamen had been the feels and

and the armies will all be come elements of strength, not | weak- largely condemned to inaction,

From a most trying test of which 18 ness and terror.A

-AU LEBBER EVIL

forear, they

The conduct of the Russian pops in it must be remembered that the Russian Navy was seriously affected by Ancedonia provides us with an mirable revolutionary propaganda in 1901-5 when obiect lesson. They were pressed from * To cope with this tendency the Commit matities Broke out is the Black Recontact with Bolshevik ag

agitator by goo tee system, applied at first in smaller Fleet, notably in the

conditions battleship Potemkin unite, was extended to the divaional, These trambles were indirectly a result corps, bray and front organisations of Buairt naval distaters during the force repitenting great, and sciplined The Northern front being nearest to war a Japan They were crushed Petrograd and, therefore, the first to feel and the leaders executed, including Lact

they were

rticularly 4 Lubian Fording to theworth influence of the revolutionary pro tepant Schmidte a revolutionery dr

dream

impressed the British troe paganda, acquired this development of or who should have, had no place, in a the revolution broke Zout th the committees before the other armies man of war. At the outbreak of the pre were permitted to form commfees. and front Through these various coment Revolution the Besheries took posed. But the

Government in Petrograd had ordain. mittees it was hoped to create contact between the higher command and the ranks The moderate members of

Lelsingfors autiny by

Bolsheviker

"smaller warshi

king. venganon for the discipline the Collision Governmeal supported this reprisals that had been

inst the new-found Course as the 51 lesser evil, trust to men 13 years the future to restore things to a normal winter quarter

They were encouraged by the num Arous elections of officers as, members of

the committers.

agitators bad n

(Continued asfod nd Yel

ionto

commit

When

The

Tatoverthrow oldiers, prot of their

free men vival their smartae and devo d-demordg-to the

testimony of British officers to they re

main to this day?