"RUSSIA WILL NEVER GO OUT."

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3276, 26 June 1917, Page 4

"RUSSIA WILL NEVER GO OUT."

A STUDENT'S CONVIGTION

"There are so many ignorant people in Russia, who cannot read or write," said Jan Clierniavsky- in Sydney referring to the ltussian crisis. Jan, ivho has made a special study of the revolution in Itussia, went on to say that tho people's lack of education, with tho addition that news travels in Russia ver yslowly against the proGoriruan element, is responsible for much misunderstanding ont here, and for the slow dawning of tho situation on the peasant mind. "The Russians," he continued, "will never go out of the-war until triumph has crowned the Allies. It would be absolute ruination for the country if i separate peace were made. The idea :s prevalent that Russia is short of foodstuffs, leather, and other commodities. That is false. There is plenty, but the leaders of the late regime, and other pro-Germans, have been keeping provisions from the army and' the- people. This was well known in Russia, henco the devolution. The people revolted, not with a desire to secure a separate peace, but with a ictonnination to get hold of these itores, and bo thus helped to carry jut the war against the Huns. Mad they not revolted, they would have been forced to do just what tho procJermans wanted—strike out for a separate peace. The upper classes have plenty, but tho masses know that their only salvation lies in fighting to the bitter end."