WHAT RUSSIA WANTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144666, 28 April 1915, Page 8

WHAT RUSSIA WANTS.

Many Russian officers are of opinion that, the war will last until the end of HUG. Neither are they anxious to get to Berlin. “Berlin!*' exclaims one. “Who wants to go there:' Three hundred miles out of our way; and out of yours, too! Besides, the only people who deserve a day there am the Belgians. Wo. you, and the French have .suffered no injury to our national pride. We leave theatricals to William! For us Allies—business. “Kneh of us is after something.. You want their fleet; France wants security and Alsace-Lorraine; and Russia—-we)), wo’ro really more interested in Vienna than Berlin—-hut we shall not get there for a long, long time yet. But you Kngltsh are dreamers. You think the German heart is easy to break. Nitchvo! We shall see. That Kaiser has the heart of a devil. He will see his last nnny corns butchered and broken before ho will throw up his hands. But we shall say to him by and by' ‘Now. 31 r. Kaiser, if yon insist on dragging out this business and.killing thousands more men, we are very sorry, we Allies, .but we shall bo compelled to retain Silesia and Westphalia permanently to balance our fares to Berlin.* ”