Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-13

don make this fact clear. The peril
to the entente II the Lenin party in
Russia were 10 gain the upper hand
and conclude separate peace could
scarcely be exaggerated.
Russia Is Allies Peril.
A separate peace between Ger
many and Russia would mean the end
OF the allied attempt to starve Ger
many OF food and raw materials. as
well as release between IS and so
divisions of infantry, totdl with
their supports and reserves Of per-,
haps two million German soldiers,
for use on the western front Figures
placed before me today indicate that
of these two perils the provisioning
of the enemy and the reinforcement
of his armies in the west. the former
is the more serious.
In the last year of peace Germany
imported s350,000.000 worth of goods
from Russia and the bulk of these
goods were food and fodder, the two
most serious brakes on German war
efficiency today. lussian barley,
wheat, eggs poultry. butter, lard and
rye poured across the frontier in
peace time and these imports would
soon he resumed. The food crisis I'm
Russia at present-is a crisis of trans
port aud German engineers and Ger
man Organizations could soon over
come tins difficulty and enable Rus
sia TO feed her own people and re-
sumo her trade.
a separate peace would also, with
In few months. begin to reduce the
German meat shortage. Glover, oil
cakes and oats, used for fodder, are
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many. but Russia could supply all
that Germany requires. Russian eX-
ports to Germany would not be linz
itcd 90 peace-time figures, 1t Is point
ed out, but could be increased in
definitely. II is not pretended that
the effect of Russian food upon the
German people would be felt at once,
but since Gerard and other authori-
tics believe Germany can hold out
from one to two years on her present
prospective supplies, Russian ne
trayal would place the allies in "A Sc.
rious situation.
Release of Man Power.
In peace times. every year hun
dreds of thousands Of Russian LABOR
ers came into Germany to help WIN
the harvests The only limit to this
supply OF labor was the number oil
men Germany required. In this vast
reservoir of man-powcr upon which
Germany could draw lies another peril
in The event of a separate peace; Whlle
the anarchy which you'd probah'y
reign in Russia following the be
travail Of allies. il is feared,
would make IL possible for Germany
to incorporate Russians In her armies.
The political effect of a separate
Russian peace in the east would he
world shaking Small Balkan pow
ors, even those now ranged against
Germany could not hope to keep out
Of the Teutonic orbit, and the Ger
man world-empire plan would nave
been advanced more than half fwN to
complete success unless the alleu
armies in the west Were able to crush
the kaiser's armies and dictate peace.
II is desired that these portentous
facts be clearly Understood in the
United States. 1t is feared that
Americans. clearly awake now to the
situation IN France, may not easllj
understand :hat no issue since tho
Civil war holds such sinister possi-
tiities for America as the Russian
crisis.
Were Russia to make a separasc
peace high official said to me,
zone possibility of victory would re-
Tluln. II America Ntlt "
fci war of years and conduct the
major part of the struggle herself,
two years hence, when our man power
and that Of France was cxhauStec, we
might succeed in beating Germany.
America VIII Not Hesitate.
Not even this intolerable prospect,
answered, would cause the AIneri-
can people to draw back, and added
that we were in the war to win IT at
any cost. But this mans remark
shows how vital 1t is that Russia be
saved in the interest of ourselves as
wen as France and England, from the
influences now working to wreck the
alliance.
Those vino know the temper OF the
Russian peop,e anticipate n great re-
ocption for the American missions. IL
IS felt here that Root and his com
panions may he able to save the situa
ton by pointing out In plain
weeds rhe ruin which awaits Russia.
If she allows herself to be deceived by
German intrigucs and humanitarian
and paaifist fanatics. Representatives
Of the European allies are doing their
hest but he old suspicious and 1eal-
cusies still operate TO prevent their
words from being universally accepted
at face value. These sinister factors
will not be operative when Americans
talk frankly to Russians. for all fac
tians in the new Russian democracy
believe In the international program
of Wilson and in the good faith of the
American people.
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