Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-19
BY a. s. Neushcl

BY n. S. Neushcl
(Recently Attached to the Political
Department of the Petrograd
Military District.)
Editors Note:-A. S. Neushel, u
Russian patriot, educated al the Uni
versity of Petrograd and later at the
University of Paris. was a participant
in the Russian revolution of l9O5-O6,
! was imprisoned a number Of times
for political activity, and was finally
forced to leave Russia. At the out
break of h present war he tried to
return to his native country to play
the part of a soldier, but was unable
to gain access to Russia until the Ke-
rensky regime came into power fol-
lowing the revolution. Entering Rus
STA then, he was attached to the po-
litical department under the COM
mander-in-chief OF h P%etrograd
military district. He has just re-
turned to the United States with a
thrilling f1rst-hand story of condi-
tons in Russia today, the reasons
why these conditions grew up. and
the ends toward which they tend
Editor.)
Russia cannot fight any more. Rus
STA is like a man who has been three
days and nights without sleep or fooa.
Like that man one could almost say.
Russia does not car what happens.
unto death. Nothing makes any diff
ference to her.. Nothing could be
worse. tina what has been and what
is.
But-mark this we'll. 1t was not
the revolution that put Russia VI of
the war. Russia had quit fighting be-
fore the revolution came. 1t was the
corruption Of the old cars regime
that put Russia out of the war.
There is no more narrowing picture
than the Russia of Observation-Disclosures
it be the picture of the Russia of to-
day and the Russia Of tomorrow-
still on the Knees Of the gods.
The Russia of yesterday quit Sight
ing yesterday-quit because h haa
fought so long underfed, under
armed, under-munitioned and misled
that she could fight no more. And
that Russia passed through trials of
Those terrible trials, and the noble
heroism manifested during those
trials-these are subjects of which
the world will not know even in part
for years, and all of which the world
can never know.
The Tolstoy who sings the horrors
of the war Of 1914 in Russia, as Toll
StOy sang IN war n Teace tne
horrors Of the Napoleonic cam
paigns, will tell a story more terrible
and more gruesome thar even Toll
stoy ever dreamed Of.
Russia quit fighting because the old
ruling Russian class was inefficient
and corrupt. She quit fighting be-
cause her rulers sold out their bleed
ing soldiers to the enemy while the
blood was still pouring from those
soldiers wounds.
Russia quit fighting because to this
treason in high places. was added an
almost unbelievable inefficiency. The
cars ring did not var to conduct
a successful war against Germany.
More than that, they did not know
how.
When trainloads of grain-not car
loads. Observation-Disclosures for the
Russian army disappear, and when
it is finally found that those train
loads of grain have beer delivered
over the Austrian frontier to the en-
envy, it is possible to gain some con
ception of the mismanagement and
the corruption that put Russia out
}of the war before the revolution
blazed. "@'
Upon taking up my work under
the Kerensky government I was sent
into the First Reserve regiment. This
regiment was composed of soldiers
who had been evacuated from the