We have day after day attempted to give the University some idea as to the state of affairs in Russia; we have published the ideas of Trotsky and the Bolshevikis and conscientiously done our best to keep the undergraduates posted as to who's who in Petrograd. Yet by the time the CRIMSON reaches its readers, the whole situation has changed. The trouble is that the Russians can arrange a revolution in less time than a newspaper can go to press,--they are faster than the Mexicans. So we give up, and until definite news has reached us that one party is in power at least twenty-four hours, we shall refrain from posting the Russian score. The main difficulty in attempting to be a military critic of Russian affairs comes from the fact that when the report reaches us that Kerensky is marching upon Petrograd with 200,000 men we never are quite certain whether the army is being run by Kerensky or whether they are leading him back to jail. The Russian soldier is so wonderfully obedient that any one can march him off to battle; moreover it is much more amusing to shoot at Battalions of Death than at Germans, because the latter always shoot back whereas the young ladies refrain from such rudeness.

In the meanwhile the Germans patiently shine up their Mausers and wait for the Russians to come back in the trenches so that they can continue the war. So do we all!