Wairarapa Daily Times [Established Third of a Century.] THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918. RUSSIA AND THE ALLIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 13599, 25 July 1918, Page 4

Wairarapa Daily Times [Established Third of a Century.] THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918. RUSSIA AND THE ALLIES.

So far as wo can judge, events in Russia are moving in a direction favourable to the desires of the Allies. Wo cannot see how Germany could possibly do more to add to the foundation of hate against her.which has always been a matter to be reckoned with in Russia than she is doing. The wiser heads in Berlin see this for themselves. They see that the spoliation of the Baltic Provinces, the plunder of Ukraine food from peasants who have none to spare, the continued advance of German forces to compel surrender of these food stuffs, and the occupation of the southern ports, are not the actions of a friend. They know that in ten thousand different ways hatred of Germany is being stirred up by Germans themselves. It is no answer to this to say that the Germans can't help themselves, that they must starve the Ukraine or starve themselves. Logic of this sort cuts with equal keenness both ways. Then there is the idiotic doctrinaire Bolshevik still busily engaged in raising the rage of the rest of the Russian people to boiling poiut. His latest mandate is for the surrender of all property on the death of its present holder. Volumes might be written pro and eon this action as a matter of abstract right. We need say no more, however, than this, that human nature has not yet attained to anything approaching agreement on it. Heavy death duties mark the limit to which public opinion as yet is inclined to go. It is, thereforej nothing to be wondered at that hardly a day passes j without its evidence of the growing an- j tagonism to the Bolshevik madness, and ! the increasing degree of resistance to its ! usurpation which reasonable democracy ; begins to display. Plainly the time is fast approaching when the Allies, one i with each other and with Russia, will bo able to act with such effect as will up-'

set those farcical agreements como to at Brest Litovsk and elsewhere. Lenin ana Trotsky had no more right to tign away Russian territories than a couple of Amorican upstars would have to surrender the west coast of the United Stctes. So far as ; Siberia is concerned, it would seem as if ; the' corner has been turned already. Reports from several directions all tell tho samo tale, a tale of diminished Bolshevism, of growing rosistanco to its unheard-of usurpations, and tho willingness of the people to aid in every way they can the forces of law and order. There is, then, a growing consensus of feeling opposed to Germany, favourable to the principles of the Allies, and in consequence of the gre;.test promiso to Russia. That her democracy will bo preserved wo have no doubt. That it will bo wisely, conservative is almost as certain. That Russia will become in all probability a Federal Republic after tho model of the United States, and that she will l-o one of the great League, of Nations pledged to suppress Prussian militarism ouco and for over—all those things aro plainly written on the pages of future probability. Our greatest enemy and her greatest enemy is ono of tho busiest agents now engaged in hurrying on the day. Ho deserves no credit therefor; "since his aim-is-'the precise opposite. In' bis;case we' may well.say: "Man prQicses; Heaven amends."