RUSSIAN NEWS

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5479, 25 April 1917, Page 3

RUSSIAN NEWS

EVIDENCE OF TREACHERY The Russian news keeps good. The best of it being the account of the more reasonable frame of mind of the Worker - Soldier Committee, which on the one hand admi's the recessity for the closest national unity, and on the other emphatically repudiates the imputation of any intention to bring about a separate peace. From Roumania we have a charge of treachery against the fallen Russian Prime Minister. It is made by the general commanding the Roumanian army, it declares that M Sturmer and his Government by concert with Germany, brought Roumania, suddenly, into the strife with promise of support which could eabily have been sent in good time, and was never intended to be sent. The object was to destroy Roumania and thus provide a baßis for a separate peace. We all remember, of course, the personal promise of the Czar to help Roumania. We also remember the long delay in the arrival of the promised Russian reinforcements. We cannot forget how difficult it was to beJi« ve that the Russians were doing their Vat- The charge asserts that it has pi *oof of the stopping by the ex-Prem-ier Sturmer of several Russian army corps route to Roumanian front the stoppage of munitions, and of thtf side tracking of many trau. sport train* by order of .the Russians Government'.* The only t.bing against these proofs is the fact th.it if there was a plot it ailed For the German invasion was stopped on the'Sereth some time before the Revolution hurled Sturmer and his fellow-conspirators f the Bureaucracy from power. The plot then, if there was a plot, Bucceeded in preventing the Russian armies from saving Bucharest, but failed in producing a situation fa 'vourable for peace. . The suicide of Sturmer after his larrest supports the charge substantially. We must remember, too, that ifho conspiracy is charged with a mcientific attempt to sacrifice Roumania under the appearance of a campaign against irresistible force, which •was designed to reach Sereth, and * there hand over the work to the dip- ; lomatists. This follows the lines of the : actual campaign. . . The charge, supported as it is by Hhe known facts, aud the suicide of the chief culprit, appears to be a Revelation of the most diabolical treachery that the war has seen. As 'Completing the justification of the revolution, or, as some writers prefer to call it, “ coup d’etat, f ‘ nothing could be more deadly; the revolution against 8 treacherous bureaucracy and a thoroughly incompetent Czar.