The success of the Russians in the first battle of
the Revolution is of the highest importance both to them and to the Allies. Whether General Brussiloff can develop the victory is a minor matter. He IMO already done far more than wo hoped, and if he does no more for the present he will still be contributing valuable aid to the Western Allies. After this rude awakening at Brzezany, Marshal Hinden- burg will no longer dare to treat Russia as a negligible quantity and to draft his best troops in the East to Flanders and Champagne. For Russia herself the victory has evidently been a much-needed tonic. The citizens of Petrograd suddenly realized that while they were idly demonstrating last Sunday, as if there were no external enemy to fear, their eons and kinsmen were fighting a desperate battle with the enemy. The Provisional Government took their courage in both hands and arrested a pestilent band of Anarchists, much to the relief of the public. M. Kerensky, the organizer of victory, has justified the hopes centred in him. The Army has proved staunch to its traditions ; the country is proud of its soldiers and will, we do not doubt, respond to the stirring appeal of the Government and the All-Russia Congress—" Peasants ! give the Army bread. Workmen ! let the Army suffer no lack of munitions." The Russian giant is awakening in earnest to his new world.
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