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His brilliant mastery of the Russian language is a harder thing to believe;
but, as nothing is said of an interpreter, I must suppose that he had been
quietly and painfully taking lessons in this very difficult tongue. Anyhow,
you must picture him, at some spot not specified, addressing a concourse of
enthusiastic Revolutionaries. I propose to give a brief summary of his
speech, from which you will gather that he spoke to them like a father, and
that, while he showed a cordial sympathy with the cause of Russian freedom,
he did not hesitate to deliver himself of some very straight home-truths.
"Friends, Russians, Allies," he began; "I come on behalf of my
fellow-countrymen" (you know his touching way of regarding himself as the
medium of the best intelligence to be found in the British Empire) "to
convey their affectionate sympathy with you in your triumph over the
tyranny of Tsardom. At first we took the natural and hopeful view that your
Revolution, supported by all that was noblest in all ranks of your society,
was the result of bitter dissatisfaction with the conduct of the War, and
with the secret and sinister enemy influences which were at work to ruin
your chances in the common fight against Kaiserism.
"Yet it was immediately followed by wholesale desertions from the
firing-line and a general disintegration of military discipline. It seems,
then, that we were wrong; for otherwise it would be a curious irony that a
movement designed for the better conduct of the War should produce a
complete stagnation on your fighting fronts; or, to look at it from another
point of view, that a Revolution which owed its success to the War, since,
in such a war as this, the Army and the nation are one, should have, for
its immediate consequence, an apparent failure on your part to remember the
purpose for which the War is being fought.
"No doubt many motives were at work, and it was perhaps natural that in the
joy of your new-found freedom you should be tempted to forget the
conditions that had made it possible, and to regard the War as something
outside and remote, and its importance as small compared with the
achievement of internal liberty.
"Well, we have tried patiently to see things with your eyes, and now you in
your turn must please make an effort to see them with ours. From the first,
when we in England took on this War, we recognised that the country which
was bound to get most good out of it was Russia. For her we hoped that it
was to be in the fullest sense a War of Liberation. Your Allies would win
liberty from external menace, but you would also see the bonds of internal
tyranny broken. The TSAR, the little father of his people, had a chance,
such as falls to few, of giving to his nation something of the true freedom
that we in England know.
"He missed his chance. We will not ask why, but he missed it. Yet by other
means the War has been for you a War of Liberation, and, if you break your
pledge to see it through, you do not deserve your freedom. Nay more, you
run the risk of losing it; or, if, through the steadfastness of your sworn
Allies, you keep it, then you keep it at the cost of sacrificing the
friendship and sympathy of all free nations who are fighting in the cause
of liberty; and, on those terms, your own freedom is not worth having.
"Some of you argue that Russia's pledge to her Allies was an Imperialist
pledge and that you have the right to ignore it. Have you forgotten so soon
that the prime cause of Russia's entry into this quarrel was that Austria
had threatened to crush a free nation, Serbia, whose race and faith are
yours? Besides, a pledge like that is still a pledge, though governments
may change. Would you have it so that no people, from this time on, shall
trust the word of Russia for fear that a new _regime_ might repudiate it?
"We have been patient and made allowances. We know that a great nation like
yours cannot overthrow an age-long tyranny without being shaken through
every fibre of its being. Time was needed for you to recover your balance
and to resume a sane view of your obligations to others than yourselves. So
we have been patient, and are patient still, though the inaction on your
Front and your withdrawal from your part in the common struggle have made
our burden in France far harder to bear.
"If you fail us, we shall no less fight on, we others. 'We shall march
prospering--not through your presence.' We shall fight on till the ideals
of Kaiserism, your worst enemy, are crushed. America, that great Republic
that loves peace as passionately as you, will take your place, will fill up
the gap that you leave in the ranks of those who fight for freedom. And we
shall fight till we get the true peace that we want--not the peace which
some of you have advocated, fraternising with the common foe, listening to
the specious pleas of those who shirk the one test of their honesty when
they are asked to revolt against a tyranny as least as deadly as that which
you have yourselves overthrown.
"But you will not fail us, I know. Your hearts, as a nation, were once in
this War; heavy as our sacrifices have been, yours have been heavier still.
Why should you change? Why should the birth of your own freedom be the
death of your sympathy with the cause of the freedom of the world? No, you
cannot fail us; you are too great for that.
"Forgive me," Mr. Punch concluded, "if, in speaking from a full heart, I
have allowed myself an excess of candour. At home they have always been
very kind and let me have a charter to say just what I think; and I have
been doing it, without much distinction of persons, for seventy-five years
and more. If to you, who have been dumb so long, this seems beyond belief,
permit me to offer you, with sincere affection and regard, a visible proof
of my privilege in the shape of my
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SECOND VOLUME."
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CARTOONS.
PARTRIDGE, BERNARD.
Against Tyranny, 369
Also Ran, 157
Answer to Peace Talk (An), 9
Blighted Prospects, 109
Breath of Liberty (The), 211
Cancelled, 183
Catch of the Season (The), 225
Comfort in Exile, 401
Dawn of Doubt (The), 25
Dead Frost (A), 77
End of the Thousand-and-One Nights (The), 289
Erin takes a Turn at her own Harp, 353
For Services Rendered, 337
Greater Need (The), 171
His Latest, 321
"I am the Man", 58-59
Judgment of Paris: Latest Inversion (The), 417
Last Throw (The), 125
Price of Victory (The), 305
Road to Victory (The), 93
Snowing him under, 41
"Swooping from the West", 257
Victory First, 241
Waning of Faith (The), 273
Who Follows?, 141
Word of Ill Omen (A), 385
PEGRAM, FRED.
Plain Duty (A), 87
RAVEN-HILL, L.
Alimentary Intelligence, 235
Bad Dream (A), 315
Breaking of the Fetters (The), 179
Cannon-Fodder--and After, 267
Central Isolation, 167
Common Ideals, 379
Donnerwetter, 299
Dynastic Amenities, 251
Freedom of the Sea (The), 151
Good Riddance (A), 411
Great Uncontrolled (The), 347
Hoist with his own Petard, 395
Hypnotist (The), 331
Invaders (The), 191
Playing Smaller, 363
Rational Service, 103
Retort Celestial (The), 135
Rumourists (The), 219
Self-Protection, 283
Short Way with Tino (A), 19
War-Savings, 119
White House Mystery (The), 3
TOWNSEND, F.H.
Apple of Discord (The), 51
Bankrupt Bravos (The), 35
Unmade in Germany, 71
ARTICLES.
ALLEN, INGLIS.
Adjutant on Leave (The), 292
ANDERSON, Miss E.V.M.
Way not to pay Old Debts (A), 52
BARFIELD, A.O.
Air-Castles, 101
BERKELEY, Capt. R.C.
Jollymouse, 259
BIRD, Capt. A.W.
Edward, 79
Fruit Merchant (The), 214
More Discipline, 1
New Danger (A), 108
Over-weight, 24
Tragedy of the Sea (A), 134
BLAIKLEY, Miss Editha L.
Gems from the Juniors, 282
BLAIR, Miss F.K.
Romance of Rations (A), 150
BRAHMS, Miss M.
National Service, 317
BRETHERTON, CYRIL
Back to the Land, 254
Charivaria, weekly
Food Question (The), 272
His Master's Voice, 10
Oxford Revisited, 130
Plot Precautionary (The), 187
Reventlow Ruminates, 334
To Smith in Mesopotamy, 373
To Towser, 92
BROWN, A. HILTON
Tyrtaeus, 327
BROWNE, Miss
Forward Minx (A), 113
BROWNLEE, LEIGH D.
Signs of the Times, 123
BRYMER, CECIL J.
Two Constables (The), 318
CHANDLER, Miss BLANCHE W.
Hardships of Billets (The), 82, 122, 215
CHAYTOR, Rev. H.J.
Autre Temps--Autres Moeurs, 237
Fore and Aft, 276
CHERRILL, Miss A.L.
Lucid Explanation (A), 64
CLARKE, E.F.
Infantryman (The), 76
COBB, THOMAS
Broken Soldiers (The), 134
COLEMAN, R.
Most important Thing (The), 268
DARK, RICHARD
Emily's Mission, 358
DARLINGTON, W.A.
De Profundis, 213
Three Augusts, 74
Ways and Means, 346
DENNIS, G.P.
Diplomatic Notes, 298
DOWN, Capt.
Personal Pars from the Western Front, 50
DRENNAN, MAX
Meditations of Marcus O'Reilly, 372
Recent Truce (The), 112
DRENNAN, W. ST. G.
On the Spy-Trail, 316
DU CANN, C.G.L.
As Others see Us, 102
ECKERSLEY, ARTHUR
Choking them off, 12
Docking the Drama, 301
New Note in Theatrical Advertising (The), 269
Problems for Petroleuses, 139
Seasonable Novelties, 74
Spoop, 238
ELIAS, FRANK.
Fashions in Book-wear, 37
Our New Army of Women, 78
War's Romances, 107
ELLIOT, W.G.
Weighed in the Balance, 254
ELLIS, D.C.
Lions at Play, 62
FARJEON, MISS ELEANOR.
Nursery Rhymes of London Town, 11, 26, 79, 106, 121
FISH, W.W. BLAIR.
Cautionary Tales for the Army, 252, 309, 387
Co-operative Advertisements, 228
Herbs of Grace, 165, 178, 212, 227, 240
Mab Dreams of May, 276
Songs of Food Production, 86, 105, 129, 150, 355
Wars of the Past, 8, 29, 54
FOX-SMITH, MISS C.
Admiral Dugout, 224
'Ead-work, 55
"In Prize", 404
Jolly Bargeman (The), 320
"Let her go!", 205
Short way with Submarines (A), 378
Song of the Mill (The), 155
Tale of a Coincidence (A), 90
FYLEMAN, MISS ROSE.
Best Game the Fairies Play (The), 377
Fairies, 341
GARSTIN, CROSBIE.
Chateau in France (A), 318
Dream Ship (A), 46
Mud Larks (The), 86, 178, 218, 308, 330, 364, 382
Regimental Mascot (The), 21
GARVEY, MISS INA.
Blanche's Letters, 234, 396
GLASGOW, EDWIN.
Personal Triumph (A), 278
GLASGOW, MRS. ROBERTSON.
Winged Victory, 184
GRAVES, C.L.
At Rest, 272
Booming of Books (The), 122
Classical America, 160
Diary of a Co-ordinator (The), 410
Flapper (The), 30
Fritz's Apologia, 222
Good old Gothic, 97
Hot Weather Correspondence, 362
House-Master (The), 357
Jill-of-all-Trades and Mistress of Many, 323
Joy-rider at the Front (The), 182
Maxims of the Months, 243
Ministerial Wail (A), 307
Missing Leader (The), 138
Musings of Marcus Mull (The), 381
My Watch, 162
Piccadilly, 384
Purified Prussian (The), 56
Random Flights, 330
Smile of Victory (The), 75
Song of Food-Saving (A), 173
Spiritual Sportsman (The), 14
Strife of Tongues (The), 278
To F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig, 419
To Mr. Balfour on his Return, 404
To my Godson, 193
Topical Tragedy (A), 213
To Stephen Leacock, 114
Travel without Trains, 81
'Twas Fifty Years Ago, 295
War's Surprises, 40
HARRIS, A.
Double Entente, 277
HERBERT, A.P.
Ballade of Incipient Lunacy, 382
Open Warfare, 400
Zero, 336
HOLMES, W. KERSLEY.
Apology of a Warrior Minstrel, 149
Only Steggles (The), 30
Vicarious Reprisals, 368
HOWELL, E.B.
Muscat, 6
IMAGE, MRS.
Rations, 190
INCE, R.B.
Paper Problem (A), 275
JAY, THOMAS.
Charivaria, weekly
JENKINS, A.L.
Inn o' the Sword (The), 66
LANGLEY, CAPT. F.O.
Watch Dogs (The), 4, 72, 120, 154, 192, 236, 286, 348, 415
LEHMANN, R.C.
Fate of Umbrellas (The), 66
Francis Cowley Burnand, In Memoriam, 288
From Lord Devonport's Letter-Bag, 230
German Measles, 246
Hat and the Visit (The), 406
Heart-to-Heart Talks, 18, 70, 102, 118, 162, 185, 250, 356, 414
Helping Lord Devonport, 146
Hexameters, 375
Peas and Pledges, 342
Proper Proportion (A), 266
Recognised (The), 215
Recognition, 34
School, 310
Tasty Dishes, 326
Tipinbanola (The), 98
Ultimus, 13
LETTS, MISS W.M.
General Post, 294
LIPSCOMB, W.P.
Lessons of the War, 394
Weather-Vanes, 136
LOCKER, W.A.
Essence of Parliament, weekly during Session
LOUIS, EDWARD.
Follow-up Method (The), 44
LUCAS, E.V.
Art of Detachment (The), 128
Compliment (The), 144
Dissuaders (The), 398
Earlier Food Problems, 229
Ella Reeve, 180
Everlasting Romance (The), 169
Favorite (The), 194
Fifteen Tridges (The), 359
First Lines, 253
God-Makers (The), 388
Hints to Grosvenor House, 302
Italian in England (The), 244
Law Courts Theatre (The), 334
London's Little Sunbeams, 6
Loss (A), 222
Misgivings, 46
Misnomer (A), 270
More News from the Air, 277
One of our Difficulties, 324
Our Correspondence College, 80
Political Notes, 53
Revivals and Revisions, 284
Solace (The), 152
Taxis and Talk, 94
Three Dictators (The), 104
What did Mr. Asquith do?, 28
Who shall decide?, 370
LAFONE, H.C.
Just Sailors, 412
MCCLELLAND, W.E.
Letters from Macedonia, 38, 64, 88
MCKAY, HERBERT.
Children's Tales for Grown-ups, 154, 173, 177, 193, 222, 240, 270, 288,
310
MACLEOD, L.R.
Charivaria, weekly
MANDERS, MRS.
Old Rhymes for Ration Times, 221
MARTIN, N.R.
Current Event (A), 260
Extra Special (An), 2
Great Investment (The), 130
Local Food-Controller (A), 398
Whitehall Whisperings, 304
MENZIES, G.K.
General (The), 258
Scotland Yet, 214
Super-Char (The), 90
MILNE, A.A.
From a Full Heart, 285
Gold Braid, 181
Hereinafters, 314
Miniature (The), 36
MITCHELL, MISS G.M.
"It", 254
MORROW, GEORGE.
Privilege, 161
NAISMITH, J.K.B.
Acting-Bombardier, 140
OGILVIE, W.H.
Bunny's Little Bit, 139
Call to the Cow Ponies (A), 349
Comrades, 237
First Whip (The), 168
Song of the Woodland Elves (A), 97
Top-o'-the-Morning, 22
Troop Horses, 302
Wimmin, 413
OVERTON, JOHN.
Pan Pipes, 398
PING, MISS LILIAN G.
Dolls that did their Bit (The), 340
Mon Soldat et mon Cure, 170
Tactics, 13
PLATT, F.W.
To France, 269
PLUMBE, C.C.
My American Cousins, 339
Sherwood Foresters (The), 351
POSTLETHWAITE, H.A.
Secrets of Heroism (The), 351
PRESTON-TEWART, A.
Emergency Rations, 244
Fleeting Detachment (A), 61
PUCKRIDGE, W.H.
Poultice (The), 205
RIGBY, REGINALD
Petherton and the Pluralist, 42
Petherton's Donkey, 106
Petherton's Publications, 350
ROBERTS, P.V.
Algy, 410
ROBERTS, R.H.
Flowerless Future (The), 220
Seed Potatoes for Patriots, 175
SEAMAN, OWEN
At the Play, 96, 186, 261, 326, 390
Faith and Doubt in the Fatherland, 34
Food of Love (The), 166
Golfer's Protest (The), 50
Great Sacrifice (The), 266
Hohenzollern Prospect (The), 218
Little Willie's Opinion of Father, 362
Mr. Punch in Russia, 421
Place of Arms (A), 330
Potsdam Altruist (The), 282
Prophetic Present (The), 346
School for Statesmen (A), 250
Stomach for the Fight, 298
Symposium of the Central Weaknesses, 234
Tactless Tactics, 102
T.M.G., 394
To Germania, 134
To Paris by the "Hindenburg Line", 190
To the German Military Picture Department, 70
To the Kaiser for his New Year, 2
Vienna-Bound: A Reverie en Route, 18
William _v._ the World, 118
SHIRLEY, J.
Vision of Blighty (A), 248
SMITH, BERTRAM
Ban on Racing (The), 410
Hindenburg Line (The), 256
Little Rift (The), 27
More or Less, 150
Not Wisely but too Well, 366
SMITH, C.T.
Wobbler (The), 239
STEIN, CAPT. E. DE
Sick, 291
SWINHOE, R.
Mammal-Saurian War (The), 145
THOMAS, R.W.
Infanticide (The), 405
Told to the Marines, 300
THOMPSON, PATRICK
Appropriator of Tubers, 374
THORP, JOSEPH
At the Play, 14, 114, 174, 186, 292
TWEEDDALE, MISS D.M.
Knight-errant (A), 20
WILKES, HENRY E.
Excelsior, 270
WILLIAMS, MISS HELEN
Funeral of M. de Blanchet (The), 378
WILLIAMS, R. LL.
Convert (The), 38
WOODWARD, MISS BARBARA
National Sky-scraper (A), 166
PICTURES AND SKETCHES.
ARMOUR, MAJOR G.D., 12, 31, 83, 99, 131, 163, 231, 263, 293, 311, 327,
341, 371, 389, 407
BATEMAN, H.M., 39, 199, 210, 303, 356, 367
BAUMER, LEWIS, 15, 23, 42, 61, 121, 140, 153, 170, 182, 193, 256, 287,
352, 368, 384, 416
BELCHER, GEORGE, 7, 29, 37, 65, 111, 147, 161, 214, 261, 323, 351, 403,
413
BIRD, W., 10, 64, 173, 201, 208, 278, 281, 312, 344, 345
BRIGHTWELL, L.R., 52, 223, 246, 406
BROCK, H.M., 47, 53, 94, 104, 129, 136, 185, 200, 220, 247, 279, 285,
343, 370, 381, 405
BROCK, R.H., 245
BROOK, RICARDO, 4, 16, 28, 33, 49, 101, 120, 133, 188, 216, 217, 244,
260, 297, 316, 329, 358, 372, 408, 409
COBB, RUTH, 236
COLLER, H., 137
COTTRELL, TOM, 98, 364
DOWD, J.H., 67, 89, 115
DOWD, LEONARD P., 116
"FOUGASSE", 69, 97, 265, 284, 301, 313, 360
GHILCHIK, D.L., 392
GRAVE, CHARLES, 79, 373, 387, 412
HARRISON, CHARLES, 20, 80, 112, 294, 377
HART, FRANK, 88, 127, 200, 288, 340
HASELDEN, W.K., 14, 96, 114, 174, 186, 262, 292, 326, 390
HEATHCOTE, C.N., 17
HELPS, H., 396
HENRY, THOMAS, 117, 310, 348
JENNIS, G., 13, 139, 176, 228, 252, 276, 357
LUNT, WILMOT, 78, 230
MILLS, A. WALLIS, 258, 277
MORELAND, ARTHUR, 72, 107
MORROW, EDWIN, 44, 105, 144, 173, 213, 308, 332
MORROW, GEORGE, 32, 48, 68, 84, 100, 113, 132, 148, 164, 175, 204, 248,
264, 280, 296, 309, 319, 328, 335, 375, 383, 393, 420
NORRIS, ARTHUR, 232
PACKER, E.A., 85
PARTRIDGE, BERNARD, 1
PEGRAM, FRED, 195
PRANCE, BERTRAM, 233, 342
RAVEN-HILL, L., 36, 128, 196, 197, 206, 207, 271, 422
REYNOLDS, FRANK, 8, 21, 40, 56, 81, 91, 108, 123, 143, 155, 175, 181,
197, 203, 209, 215, 259, 307, 320, 404
ROUNTREE, HARRY, 178, 414
SHEPARD, CAPT. E.H., 166, 227, 240
SHEPHEARD, G.E., 213
SHEPPERSON, C.A., 5, 24, 45, 76, 92, 110, 124, 156, 174, 187, 190, 253,
272, 325, 336, 359, 365
STAMPA, G.L., 26, 43, 73, 145, 159, 181, 201, 221, 237, 249, 275, 291,
300, 324, 339, 380, 400
TENNANT, DUDLEY, 376
THOMAS, BERT, 55, 95, 160, 168, 180, 192, 205, 229, 243, 349, 388, 397,
419
THORP, J.H., 75, 268
TOWNSEND, F.H., 11, 27, 63, 126, 142, 152, 158, 169, 172, 177, 184, 194,
198, 202, 212, 224, 226, 239, 242, 255, 269, 274, 290, 295, 304, 306,
317, 322, 333, 338, 354, 355, 361, 386, 391, 399, 402, 403, 415, 418
WILSON, DAVID, 189
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