REGENERATION OF RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 5

REGENERATION OF RUSSIA.

NATION COMPACT IN ITS PATRIOTISM. VALUABLE EFFECTS OF THE INVASION; WHOLE NATION ANIMATED BY THE ONE SPIRIT. (Received August 9, 9.55 pan.) LONDON, August-9. Dr Dillon, the “Dady Telegraph’s” correspondent, says the Russian Cabinet has received communications from prominent Russians declaring that, despite the fact that the invasion of Russia has begun in grim earnest, the reverse has its compensations in that ft lias raised the political temperature many degrees and will do more than piles of Orange Books and appeals to bring the Duma and the Government into line with the fuselayers of tlie population, and so form a compact and patriotic nation. Russia lias already been stimulated out of its torpid elements into a resolve to remedy its deficiencies. Not since the Napoleonic invasion lias there been such a revival, resulting in one fixed purpose—the defeat of an enemy of the human race and to check and permanently destroy the barriers separating the people and the Government, tints accelerating the nation’s political and social regeneration. Russia will henceforth take her place among the free peoples of the world and nui' r be trusted implicitly to fulfil her promises to peoples other than Russians. They unstintedly pay a tribute to the brilliant achievements of the Anglo-French, but say there must be a bigger share ?n the common burden. Russia is temporarily immobilised, and the absorbing question is, What new element can conic into being? Bulgaria’s co-operation would give us Constantinople, in less than a month, but Bulgaria won’t march unless her claim to Macedonia is recognised and Serbia refuses to dispossess herself, even for compensation worth three Macedonia.*? to her political prestige and economic strength.