Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1917. THE RETREAT FROM RIGA.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3337, 5 September 1917, Page 2

Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1917. THE RETREAT FROM RIGA.

Ai a first glance, it seems horrible to contemplate that the Russians should retreat from the Riga front, as it is confessed in their own communiques and confirmed by 'Germ&n reports. But, after all, it may prove tf> 1?P the very best thing that could happen right now to Russia; and it cannot really affect the issue of the war as between the- Allies and the Central Powers. But therg 19 a certain (or a;i uncertain) section oi' the Russian revolutionaries ami reactionaries who aro out looking for trouble, A powerful secret service of German agents is assisting those trouble-seekers to find it. liri the finding, they will bring Germany's house of cards about their ears and utter destruction upon tho taoubkj-niakers. The Russians have some 0/ t\io characteristics of tho Britons, and among these is a disinclination for and a casualness that, in times of crijsig, is nothing short of criminal. Both tho Russ and the Briton are loth to believe that things are ever as black a3 they are jointed, and consequently the house goes on burning whilst they believe it is only til*? /■'J)imney : that is smoking. However, when tfye conflagration really discloses itself, then John Bull and Ivan Giantotf are alike in that they take their coats off and go to it, undaunted by seemingly inevitable disaster.