THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1019, 12 November 1917, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

WILL NOT AFFECT THE FINAL RESULT OF THE WAR. SIR JOSEPH WARD'S VIEWS. (Pen Pbebs Abpoojation.) CHRISTCHUHCII, Nov. Ilk Referring l<> ho Russian crisis, Sir Joseph Ward remarked to a press reporter to-day that he quite agreed with the views expressed by Mr Massey; "1 feel quite -confident," Sir Joseph went oij to-sav, "that the men who are governing at the: centre of the Empire and who have got ahead of every difficulty, however.great, up till now, won't bo deterred .by the.great side-step of Russia in their fixed intention of con-] tihuing until a triumph for freedom, and civilisation is gained By a positive victory. The whole of the Russian trouble will assuredly prolong the war and throw much greater work on a section of ihe British Navy, at least in the Mediterranean. That inflexible spirit of determination and grit that has enabled Great Britain and her valiant Allies to fill every breach that treachery and intrigue has made in some of our Allies will in the end ensure the complete defeat of the enemy." Ho proceeded to say: "Before we left Finland there was' a feeling, one may say a belief, that only a miracle could save Russia from being removed as a powerful ally in association with us and our Allies'in helping us to win the war. ami the evidence, of the cable now discloses that'the masterful mind conducting the war have not been asleep in the interval. It is likely that both Japan ami China will probably now be active coadjutors on the battlefield with Great Britain and her Allies, who should demonstrate to the enemy that though civil war in Russia is likely to .make her an impossible associate for effective work, yet the drop])ing out of so many millions of fighting men will be more than made up when the armies 01. the : United States, China and Japan get to : work in active hostilities in conjunction i with the Allies."