RUSSIA AFFAIRS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15182, 29 March 1917, Page 7

RUSSIA AFFAIRS.

VARIOUS OPINIONS. HARD KNOCK TO GERMANY. LONDON, March 20. Professor James Young Simpson, who was recently in Russia, interviewed, said that the Czars manifesto was calculated to stir up an enonpang amount g sympathy in the Russian people for e throne, and would possibly have 3d eSect later—that was, jf the moderMo liberals were unable to carry their „ scheme to establish a Constitutional . V monarchy. “I have little doubt,” he '|< said, “that a moderate monarebial policy will ultimately prevail. Obviously rfj the policy of the pro-German groups will VB .he to endeavour to make trouble bethe Socialists and the moderate uVlLiherals, and stimulate the former to more extreme measures, hoping to proJ dnee, in two or three months, some sort of reaction. For however much the people are disappointed and angered by the policy of any individual Emperor, , it is impossible to eradicate that deep instructive reverence and love for “the little father,” as the Sovereign is affectionately termed. "I am optimistic in expecting the situation to clear up gradually,” he continued. ‘T thick this is the hardest knock Germany has had. The disheartening condition .under which the war waslately conducted, when the country knew that the Premier was seeking to conclude a separate peace, has ended, and the people, and the army, and the public council have been greatly heartened to fight the war to a finish. The war will tie greatly expedited.” The Daily Chronicle’s Petrograd correspondent says:— The normal life of the country is being resumed. The leaders of tliis new era have shown in the hoar of terrible trial a supremo patriotism and nobility that will be the beacon light in the great day* through which the.Bosnian people are passing. Tbdr one thought , k to save Russia. One of the leaders remarked; The war ii foremost in our thoughts. It would not have mattered had we been killed, but wc wanted to establish a Government immediately, and prosecute the war to victory. M. Kerensky had a reputation as a rather light-hearted, clever young law--1 jer, with a taste for irresponsible declamation, but be has shown marvellous Bh of character. His was the task, to secure an agreement the workmen’s deputies, among were many extremists, who inon a policy that would have i Russia. 'ereusky won a victory by a hisspeech. Appearing in the stormy ly. he mounted a table, and with I eyefi and passionate utterance, announced hk acceptance of the poet of Minister of Justice. His announcement .turned the tide, and, amid cheering, he I continued: “Comrades, in entering the jV'Provisional Government, I remain a jyjijßepoblican. I must lean for help on ■ the people’s will. May 1 trust you, as ’ t {Tremendous cheers). . I call you to organise and discipline.” , Agreement once attained, the Government issued a programme, with its main {fa tore the election of a Constituent - t Assembly after the war, to determine the form of Government, whether Republican or otherwise. Possibly the cx-Czar and Czarina will he sent to lire quietly in England.