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IN JUSTICE TO RUSSIA
Lloyd George said in his recent London speech that he
had hoped the enemy's terrible power would be broken^
this year, but the temporary collapse of the Russian mil
itary power has postponed this hope.
That is a mild statement regarding the Russian equa
tion in rite war problem—mild as compared with the s-. !.
riment which many entertain with respect to Russia and
the part that nation has played in the war. It is frequent
ly said, and more or less generally believed, that, had tae
Russian righting power maintained itself, as it promised
to do at the opening of this years campaign, the war
would have ended with the dost* oi that campaign. 1 ei
haps that would have been true, but it is not a hard and
fast conclusion.
The Russian collapse following the revolution may
!>e charged with the postponement of allied victory, hut
that is not the full statement of the Russian case. It must
be said in justice, that previous to this year Russia re
peatedly saved the day for the allies.
la tho.>e August da\s of It'l l when France was trem
bling for the fate of Par is, so, too. was Berlin crowded
with refugees fleeing from the Cossacks. It requires sis
army corps at the direction of the German high com
mand, dispatched from tae armies of the Western
front, to check the Russian “steam roller advance. With
out the Russian thrust, at that time, who can say what
would have been the resuit at the Marne.
Again there came a time, when the Germans were
making their drive on Calais, when there was genuine ap
prehension that the German lighting force would become
mi actual and immediate nn nace to England. Checking
that drive, or, at the least, weakening it, came the Russian
sortie through Poland, whic.i required detachment from
the West of nearly sixteen German army corps.
We must bear in mind that during the campaign of
11)15 Russia was not left to Austria alone. Had that been
a decisive Russian victory, despite the graft in Russian of
licialdom and the betrayal of the Russian soldier in the
field. As it was, the morale of the Austrian armies was
well-night destroyed. It was practically the supreme I
lask of the German campaign of that year to stiffen the
Austrian line against the Russian advance. From thirty
five to forty German army corps were required for that
work. That year, 15)15, was a year of Russian disasters,
but the expenditure of the German war energy necessary
to achieve those Russian disasters was the salvation of
the entente cause in the West.
So, may it be truthfully said, that the Brusillof cam
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paign of 1916 in which the Russians captured nearly half
a million German prisoners and more than oOO guns, de
prived Austria and Germany, yet the price she paid has
been a tremendous one, and in the light of events it has
purchased time and opportunity for the preparation of
the splendid and tremendous allied otlensive now insti
tuted in the West, to be strengthened to final victory
through American participation.
Wonder who will win out in Germany? The leaders
of the Reichstag have protested the appointment of ( mint
\ on Hertling, yet the latter has advised the King of Ba
varia, that he has accepted the Imperial Chancellorship of
Germany. Whose last play is it, anyway ?
The man who invented the rest to be hung at one end
of the bath tub to hold a person’s feet above the water
should now turn his attention to some contraption that
would prevent the water from escaping into the tub in the
first place.
A correspondent in the New ’i ork Herald avers that
it is just as appropriate to call the American eagle "Bir
die” as to call our soldiers “Sammies." He then proposes
to call them “Starbars,” which seems to be an argument it:
favor of the name “Sammy.”
G.W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
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