Gilbert and Geraldine Tusntill were in St Petersburg and witnessed the response of the Russians. Gilbert later told the Craven Herald that,
"The enthusiasm of Russia is beyond verbal expression ... you must see it and live amongst it to grasp its
significance. The Russians are in deep and deadly earnest – they regard the war
as a holy war, and the spectacle of the Czar, from the steps of his palace,
giving his troops the command to press forward and resist the treacherous
designs of Germany, and the response of the men, as they knelt in the palace
square to receive their Sovereign’s blessing ... all animated with the one determination to bring Germany to her knees for her stupendous and criminal folly of upsetting the peace of Europe ... is one that can
never be forgotten".
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