By "Smor"
Shanghai, Nov, 14, being to collect enough funds to buy Our remark ° that Mr. Winston] ®, cottage of the type at present Curchehill is one of the: truest and. plentiful on Hungjao Head and which once graced Point Island. This pur-sincerest friends of Russian emigrachase is hardly within the means of fon has drawn a disagreement from.
Jrmost. individual Russians "and Rus-tone of our readers. As the English sian families, but it is hoped that are known for their impartiality, and once a society is formed the financial as there is a saying that goes," "Clu. dimeulty" will" be overcome. The hoe des opinions jalllit La vérité"—organizers are planning to. buy a the clash of opinions gives birth to. garden together with the cottage, the truth—it would perhaps be per-Where they can do some. planting, missible to ive voice here to our hold plenies and use it as a base for correspondent's assertion that Mr. fishing and hunting. In general it is Churehiit was not always sympathetic planned as a weekend country lub towards nationalist Russia, with minimum expenditure eniatied.
Thus it is common knowledge, says: Replacing the Russian newspaper our opponent, that in 1914 the Russian '"Russkyi Golos" published in Way-'Army was technically interior te the side, "Russ," a weekly journal, has German, Russian light artillery was made its appearance. Its Editor is especially weak and heavy artillery, Mr. P. A. Savintzeff, the editorial at the beginning of the war, simply office being situated in 211 Yangtze hon-existent. Yet in his Great War poo Road. Containing in its. frst memoirs Mr. Churchill ascerte that at umber a variety of illustrations and Zoldau (Tannenberg) German artil-articles by several prominent local Tery_ was only half as big as that Russian journalists, "the newspaper of Gen, Samsonov and only in their says it will serve the national in-hells doubled In number that of the Totter, (crests of Russia and unite Russian emigrants in Shanghai.
Mr. Churchill is especially unfair his choice of itiustrations; there are pictures of Russian soldiers surrender-Ing at Zoldau, being mostly depicted with their hands raised, and one of Russian emeers taken by' the Germans with the Corps Commander at telt head. Yet there is not a. single, picture of Austrians surrendering to the Russians, whereas during Gen. Brusilov's advance in the summer of 1916 alone there were 420,000 Austrians taken prisoner, a Agure all the more amazing as during the whole course of the War England, France and Tlaly together took only 360,000 prisoners, The Russian Army tode 2,200,000 during the War, or six times. more than her allies, Furthermore, our correspondent is! hurt by the cartoon inspired by the shelling of an English Ashing flotilla which made too close an approach to the Fleet of Admiral Rojdeatvensky during the Russo-Japanese War. The Admiral, it is pointed out, had every reason to be on his guard as he was: awaiting the approach of Japanese destroyers, Admiral Rojdesvensiy, whom today even the Bolsheviks re-agnize as an honourable and valiant seaman, 1s depleted in the cartoon with a bottle in his hand, hanging over the toll and imagining in his drunken stupor that he sees rats and Japanese seething in the water, War Minister's Orders Finally we are told that Volume 3 of the Archive of the Russian Revolue tion contains an essay by Mr. Dobrovolsky entitled "The ght for the regeneration of Russia in. the: Northern Region." in which the: author quotes Gen, E.. Miller. saying that, although Gen. Ironside, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Fores, did not speed hhis evacuation of Archangel wanting to ald in the escape of Russian leaders, Field Marshal Rollinson was sent from London by War Minister Winston Churchill with strict instruc ions that all help to the White Army: bbe stopped and the British forces be: evacuated immediately.
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