RUSSIAN REGARD FOR ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 16079, 3 April 1916, Page 8

RUSSIAN REGARD FOR ENGLAND

» I wish to repeat what I recently wrote abcut the way the Bussians now regard England, because I notice it everywhere (writes Bernard Pares from Eussia in the •Daily Telegraph'). It is not any difference in tho iealing; it is rather a nev development of the mental attitude. These shades are worth noting; they may help us to anticipate the difference between the first bout of the war and when we ft art again. Everything had led up to the English alliance, and it was received with rapture. The war, like the histdrj of Biissia, began with a period oi" thrusting blows and unreckoning sacrifices. Russia saved us 'by doing as she did! but by the nature of the conditions she could not see the equivalent of her own sporting enterprise on the western front. Advanced hundreds, of miles into foreign territory, the Bussians in Galicia used

sometimes, among themselves, ■to make good-humored comments on bulletins announcing the conquest of another hundred

We may be grateful for our reverses Kussm has been forced on W hor other patience, the se'f restraint, the slow and sure defensive of Moscow, which nas in history proved the mo-it i^ er + ?u- ? ern ? ailen <> success. As one stops to think, the wearing year-long vj«!l of the British Fleet, and its enormous effects, moral and material, come home in :i more and more convincing way—«specmlly now that its action Ts extended to the Baltic and the And 'or the land war, the strong flow of England's rising power, the glowing furnace of l-ie-paration at home, and meanwhile the lon* defence against odds, of inches here and inches there, come to be more and more impressive for Russia. They are counting on us, and looking to us more than ever. I felt this in. aP t-iat was said at the Odessa and in u ea< * of the -nmple little speeches on England to the patients in the hospitals. As they themselves say, they feel they are going to vun because they are with ws, and tnat an ever-growing share in the common victory is going to be ours. We shall not forgot that it was their plunging initiative thou- generous and selfless sacrifices, that gave England the time to forge the strongest instrument that she ever made. ihe co-operation m detail deepens, as 1 have again had occasion to observe. lir •?, , 1S Rawing- nearer when the toother t0 aCt fr ° m hoih side '