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RUSSIAN WAR WEARINESS

BIRTH OF THE BOLSHEVIKS. ASTOUNDING INSTANCE OF TREACHERY. Professor Banian Pares, in a. lecture in London in January, said that the Bolshe • viks were the most un-Russian thing in ; Russia, and that their power would be very short-lived." , Tho secret of their success ho declared ; to be the war weariness of the people, i brought about by colossal losses in the : field, due to shortage of ammunition, want of organisation, corruption, and treachery. 1 In _ tho first 10 months tho Russian casu- < altie.3 actually amounted to nearly four 1 millions—an appalling figure. In one offen 1 sive, at Lake NurotcJi, the Russians in an i attack which lasted a month lost 50 per 1 cent, of their total attacking force. j Then, for some reason, all their artillery ' was removed, but the troops were brought < up to fall strength again, and in one day tho Germans destroyed three-fourths of the i whoie force. The Germans, knowing they 1 had no artillery to face, actually brought J their field guns into the trenches and mowed 1 down the helpless Russians. In fact, 1 the whole of Russia was filled with crippled men, who told how they had been sent to ' fight without arms. That was the secret ' of tho Bolshevik success. "Professor Pares is, wo think, indisput- 1 ably right in this diagnosis, thongh it re- ' mains to be seen whether the Bolsheviks 1 will quickly lose tho power they have tc ' quired," remarked) The Westminster ( Garettc. '

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17324, 25 May 1918, Page 8

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RUSSIAN WAR WEARINESS Otago Daily Times, Issue 17324, 25 May 1918, Page 8

RUSSIAN WAR WEARINESS Otago Daily Times, Issue 17324, 25 May 1918, Page 8