RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14656, 9 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

REVOLT AGAINST PEACE

NEW SPIRIT MANIFEST.

NATIONAL MOVEMENT OF

RESISTANCE.

BITTERNESS AGAINST JAPAN

(Australian and K.Z. Cable Association.)

London, March 7. The "Daily Chronicle's" -Petrograd correspondent says: "There are many indications that the disgraceful peace just imposed will not be tte end of Russia, but the beginning of a strong Uussia. It is the end or the old war but the beginning of a new, tougher and more complex war. I insist, despite the Russian suffering caused by the Bolsheviki, that their leaders were not intentionally working for German interests1. They were working fanatically for their own revolutionary aims, but they have been worsted, and the chief violence of their wrath is now directed against German imperialism and is successfully stimulating them against Geiman oppression. There is a patriotic feeling of a new type.

"This new Bolsheviki enthusia6in is an asset and certainly one of tfce factors of the revival of national sentiment, and is shared by many other classes. It is possible that the various currents of bitter hostility to Germany will coalesce in a big national movement of resistance to the German invasion, hence a revival of national sentiment between Russia and the Allies might be fostered. "Nevertheless, it is unfortunate for ■us that at the very moment ■when the Russians are smarting under Litter humiliation of defeat they are faced .with the threat of a Japanese occupation of Siberia. The interests of the 'Allies in this las aroused the strongest resentment in aU classes of the RusBians.