New-York tribune., 1918-11-21
Nearing the End in Russia
way to meet him

There is one war zone in Europe in
which orders have not yet been given to
cease firing. There is one Teuton power
which refuses to surrender. That is the
Terroristic autocracy of Lenine and
Trotzky.
Red Russia is still conducting a war
against the Allies. Her troops last week
made a vigorous attack on the Allied
forces holding the left bank Of the Dvina
River, southeast Of Archangel. Lenine
and Trotzky refuse to follow the example
of Bulgaria, Turkey, ustriaHungary
and Germany. They have not asked for
an armistce-possibly because they
know that their crimes are such as can
not possibly be amnestied in any compact
of surrender entered into between them
and the Allies.
Lord Robert Cecil, British Under Sec
retary Of State for Foreign Affairs, said
in the House of Commons on Monday
that the Bolshevist government ''is en-
titled to no consideration whatever from
the British government" 1t is entitled
to no consideration from any civilized
government. 1t is creation Of corrup-
ton and bloodthirstiness, an absolutism
based on force and prescription, at war
with every concept of liberty, democracy
and humanity.
The Bolshevist state is paranoiac Oh
session. The world must be cleansed of
it. And there is urgent need of immedi-
! 10 oC*;on R,1ccfo ct into In
peace conference until some Russian gov
ernment energies with p1-i2f1a facie title
which an international gathering can rec
ognize.
There are the makings Of such a gov
ernment at Omsk, in Siberia. and also in
When the Allied fleets enter the Baltic
they can easily reduce Cronstadt and
open the way for the military occupation
Of Petrograd. But Petrograd is only an
outpost of Bolshevism. Moscow is the
lair of the Red monster. 1t must be
slain there if Russia is to be freed and
recreated in the image Of a civilized
state
Fortunately an easy road to Moscow is
now being opened through the Ukraine.
The Allied fleets have entered the Bos-
porus. They can steam through the
Black Sea to Odessa and make that the
/ base of an expedition to Moscow The
Ukraine is waiting to welcome them.
News came yesterday from Copenhagen
that the pro-German government in Kiev
had been overthrown by Cossack troops
under General Denikine, one Of General
Alexeff's lieutenants.
Since last May the Ukraine has been in
q condition Of sem-anarchy. The orig-
nal Ukrainian government, which was a
party to the treaty Of Brest-Litovsk and
had set up shadowy republic under Ger
man protection, was ousted by the Ger
man military authorities for baking at a
German seizure of the Ukraine's food
supplies. General Skoropadslli was in-
stalled as dictator, with the title Of Het-
man. He paid visit TO the Kaiser at
Berlin and was treated there as an ally
of about the same personal acccptability
and political serviceability to Germany as
Ferdinand of Bulgaria or the Sultan Of
Turkey.
The Hetman contracted friendly rela-
tions with Lenine and Trotzky and helped
them to fight the Cossacks. They char
acteristcally repaid his good offices by
forbidding any Bolshevist propaganda in
the Ukraine.
Skoropadskis regime was doomed when
the Germans began to draw out Of Rus
sia. Now he is q fugitivc~-probabIy with
the Ukrainiun- German forces which have