New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
Hope Tem1perS Sadness
in War Wounded Russia
TO the End with Our Allies, Whatever the Cost! the
Spirit That Reigns in Hearts OF Poor and K'ch
Alike Declares Salvation Army Colonel.

ing with thousands OF those 10 "ho"'
FIVE kopeks mean meal.
"Here are women whose husbands
ere at the front, children whose
fathers will never return, old men ana
women whose sons will be seen mere
70 more. The father OF little three
year-old Lisette. eating porridge rom
wooden spoon on a slum captain !,
lnee. will never see Lisette again. ana
Ijsette's mother is in the hospital
where she is doomed to die.
an the street beneath my window
the tramp. tramp of workers going 10
ar from their work was ceaseless. All
night long, late at night and early IN
the morning all TO whom ] spoke were
horny-handed munition workers. Al OF
them had the same story TO tell, OF
hone always. Of fear never. warsaw
NAV fall; Riga may be lost. What OF
that? Il is but for a moment Our
cause is Just. Wait. We shall triumph
IN the long run. God will see to that
We have been disappointed, bitterly
disappointed, it is true, but we do not
despair. Right alone is true might
you may have to wait. but II you
will only wait long enough you snail
see this spirit Of hopefulness, OF reso,
Lutte determination, of unshaken ana
answering confidence as to the ult-
mate issue. It was well put by an &C.
complished student the proprietor OF
large estates, with whom conyersed' =,
"It is true our brave troops nave haG
to fall back on some of our fronts,
he said, land they may have TO ran
back still further, but we have plenty
of room to fall back. II we fall back
from Warsaw, there is still Pinsk' IN
the Pripet marshland. II we fall PACK
from Pinsk, there is still Kiev. IL we
fall back from Kiev, there Is sun
Kharkov, and if we fall back rom
Kharkov, there are still half dozen
places from which to fall back before
we fall back from Saratov. And II we
fall back from Saratov, there IS sun
Vralsk and all Asia TO fall back on:
ain government departments. MIN
listers. permanent officials and junior
clerks all breathed the same unchang-
ing shirt Of hope and OF confidence
as to Russia's loyalty to her Allies III
their great cause. There IS no poSsipi,ee
question, nor can there ever pc All
talk 10 the contrary is so much clap
trap. the sensational talk OF dlssenti-
ents and mischief mongers.
Russia Loyal to England.
Especially is this true of Russla's
fealty to England. The fact that was
an Englishman claimed and won for me
wherever | went the respect. courtesy
and cooperation of every individual
with whom | came in contact. Oihclal:
clerical and private alike, they counted
me their brother in the great and
mighty cause.
at is difficult to imagine two cities
in one empire. approximating so nearly
10 one another in size, so widely dlt-
ferent from one another as are Petro-
grad and Moscow Each place has
points in which it excels the other. but
after a lapse of fifteen years or more
since | was last in the ancient capital
expected TO see many modernistlc I'M
provements in the streets and homes.
| still found these wanting. Petrograd
is western and pushing, of favorable
comparison with any city Of Western
Europe. Moscow is conservative, sleepy
and almost Eastern in her slowness.
But the citizens Of Moscow. proud as
ever Of the Kremlin and of those i'm
possible streets Of rough hewn cobbles,
are unequalled within or without the
Muscovite Empire for their loyalty 10
the Allies cause and for their deep
seated hatred Of Prussian barbarism
and oppression"