New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
Our Last Armed Enemy

10 OuL VI Cilc WAL OO are
all the other regular members Of the
Quadruple Alliance. But there is one
Teutonized power which has not laid
down its arms. That is the Bolshevik
government of RUSSIA creation of the
German corruption fund---whch for the
last ten months or more has been an
irregular but exceedingly useful Ger
man ally.
Lenine and Trotzky are at war with
the Allied powers. Bolshevist troops are
fighting British, French and American
forces in Northern Russia. In Siberia
they have been fighting Japanese, Brit
ish, French, Italian and American con-
tingents. Both in Siberia and on the
Volga front in European Russia they
are still fighting the Czecho- -Slovaks,
whose armies have been recognized by
the Allied powers as co-belligerent. Red
Russia stands, therefore, as the sole sur
viving combatant of the Teuton group
the only organized government standing
out against an Allied peace of justice
Lenine and Trotzky have recently be-
come aware Of their hopeless predica-
ment. Not long ago they impudently
made demand on the Allied powers for
an evacuation of all occupied Russian
territory-parodying President Wilson's
demand on the government of Prince
Max of Baden for the evacuation Of
alien soil as preliminary to the dis
cussion of terms of peace with Germany.
Since then they have changed their tune.
Now they are pleading for any sort Of
peace which Will carry with it a recog-
milton of their bloodthirsty and inhuman
despotism.
Lenine and Trotzky have nowhere to
| flee to escape the retribution which
awaits them. The whole world has pro-
tested against their murderous travesty
! of government. The Allied powers have
dealt with the Sultan of Turkey. But
they cannot stain their hands by dealing
with the impostors, bought and paid for
by the German secret service, who Sc
duced Russia from the Allied cause and
revived and multiplied in Petrograd and
Moscow the horrors of Robespierre's
Reign Of Terror.
oy LIlC CCAIlS III tIC dEUllSUICG WIN
Germany the Allies have obtained free
access to the Baltic Sea. Their fleets
can approach Cronstadt, the key to
Petrograd. Neither Cronstadt nor Petro-
grad can be defended. Poland and all
the Baltic provinces seized by Germany
are to come under Allied protection,
awaiting the readjustments of peace.
The Ukraine has also been freed from
German control. 1t can be reached by
the Allied military forces by way of the
Black Sea.
An iron ring can therefore be speed
lily drawn about that part of Russia
which Lenine and Trotzky still control
At the height of their power the Boil
shevists, backed by German money and
troops, could not check the steady
progress of the Czecho- o-Slovaks west
from Omsk to the Urals, and thence to
the line of the Volga. What can thew
do now, standing alone, against the
armies which the Allied powers can
start toward Moscow from every point
of the compass?
Winter is near in Russia. But the
original Russian revolution was carried
through in winter. Lenine and Trotzkv's
counter revolution was also carried
through in winter. There is urgent
need now Of military demonstration
which will pave the way for third
revolution and the disappearance Of
the present outlaw regime in Moscow.
II Russia is to be represented in tho
coming peace conference Lenine and
Trotzky must go the way of their kind
the way of Marat, Danton and Robes
pierre. A civilized government must
renIace theirs Otherwise Rnssia nansA