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reinforce the comrades whom they
had left behind them pending the ar
rival Of troops of the entente.
Several American regiments have al
ready been disembarked at Vladivostok,
as well as a large Italian contingent.
French troops have been hurried thith-
er from Tonkin and Indo-China and
large British force from India. The
bulk, however, of the allied army
which is to preserve Siberia, with all
her boundless Industrial and CONNER
cial possibilities and her literally in
exhaustible latent riches, for the Rus
sian people from the enconomic and
political despotism of Germany is be-
Ing furnished by Japan.
Released Prisoners Oppose Them.
The Czecho-Slovak forces have re-
tanned their arms. But they are han
d1capped by the lack Of ammunition
and above all by the absence of artil-
lery, both light and heavy. They have
against them not alone the bolsheviki,
but also considerably more than 1OO,-
GOO German and Austrian prisoners of
war who after their capture were in
termed in Siberia, who were released
under the terms of the bolshevik treaty
of peace at Brest-Litovsk and who
have been since then furnished by the
bolshevik government and by the Ger
man military authorities with arms,
munitions, artillery, supplies, money
and even airplanes. They constitute
a formidable enemy.
Fortunately for our cause, the bulk
of the people in Siberia are for us. The
white population of Siberia is COM
posed in the main part Of q class i'm
measurably superior in intelligence, ed
ucation, progressiveness and blood to
the Moscovite mujiks, who form 95 per
cent Of the population of European
Russia.
We of the entente owe debt of graf
itude to these gallant Czecho-Slovaks
who have remained to champion our
cause in European and Asiatic Russia.
Were 1T not for the fight which they
have put up in Siberia against Ger
many and the bolsheviki the Teuton
domination of that enormous territory,
almost a continent in itself, would be
well nigh complete and almost beyond
reclamation.
IL Germany had control of Siberia
she could afford to surrender, not alone
Belgium and the invaded districts Of
France, but even all Alsace and Lor-
raine, away back to the Rhine; to fore
60 any idea Of dominating Bulgaria
and Turkey; in one word, to abandon
well nigh all her most loudly proclaim
ed and most cherished ambition insoth-
er directions.
Would Be Immune to Boycott.
1t would place within her reach all
the raw materials she needed for her
Industries and all the markets that she
required for their exploitation. 1t
would render her wholly independent
of any economic boycott that we might
organize against her after the war
that boycott which she breads above
all the other forces that we can bring
to bear against her. It would restore
to her prosperity and an economic
strength that would allow her to treat
as of no Importance her failure to oh.
tain indemnities.
1t would eliminate in her political
and commercial mastery of China, with
the latter's busy population of 400 mil
lions, and it would render her a stand.
. ing menace to the island empire of ia.
pan, to Americas rich dependencies in
the Philippines, to Frances great col,
onies in Indo-China and to the British
empire of India. 1t would pave the