CALL TO THE COSSACKS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 49, 21 November 1917, Page 5

CALL TO THE COSSACKS

TO SAVE RUSSIA. An article on tho Russian revolution by Countess Torby, wife of Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch of Russia, wns recently published by the London "Daily Telegraph." Neither tho Grand Duko Michael nor liis wife has any status in Russia, having made England their home for many years, but tho statements in the article coming from ench a sourco and appearing in a prominent English newspaper,' appear fitrango at tlio present moment.

The Countess pnys a tribute fo the members of the first revolutionary Government. They, she says, wore actuated by the loftiest and purest aims in hying to save the country, bit, linfortuimtoTy. they, never Irjp'l before to denl with tho stern realities of povcrnmnnt and with sedition. "They trio<l peminsion," Countess Torby says. "They tried '■indnow f'U' to usn force was ngainst the creedof freedom they had prene>io>l. Everything liiul collapsed in n whirlwind nf wild eloquence, loot, and innrflcr. The ivo!il()-l>e rodeemoTs of this delirious nopulnco trio;! to hold the mini, biit w> by me ,o y resigned, proclaimin" tho biirilci of government was too liard' to hear." The writer looks around for n hero to lead to freedom the counlry vrhieh "Ih" fiofMess of -RevoluH'-i lins nliinscd "il« terror, while world redosiner.? look at the concevons T.wth of »n iflcnlisMc dream." She hxfi upon the CnssacTTs, whom she apostrophises as fofC "Comn forth, Lrnvft warriors! Holy T?nssk is ii danger f the foe with1n OTir walls and Typt hnole the foe nt the Eat«s! Never before lias ynnr gal-, tni'trv -I'd o'ii<->lrv 'in l " , WivoW in vain' Jlav the "Rnsle nri=e once more out of il* a«hw nnri W-er over our free country of oroml men.