Evening star., 1918-08-11

ing months of fighting weather the
allies may be expected to continue
their ceaseless hammerins of enemy
lines and will continue to follow up
all offensive endeavors pressing them
as far as is possible.
One of the most favorable signs in
the fighting on the western front dur
ing recent weeks is the apparent
abandonment of the policy of fixing
objectives, reaching them and going
ing the fighting in the past four years
the allies have ushered i'll offensive
endeavors which in the final analysis
proved abortive simply because the ad-
vancing troops were unable through
restrictions to press home advantages
gained in surprise movements. There
is every reason TO believe that the al
lied command now intends to thrust
forward as far as each offensive opera
ton will permit. of course, bearing in
mind constantly, strategical and tao
teal influences.
After months OF doubt allied nego-
tiations as to Russia have at last
cryStallized in a
Allied Policy eonerete policy
in East Is Fixed. the mi nIete
Illustration OF Germanlc purpose IN the
east. a policy which also eventually
will lead to the overthrow of the boil
shevists, who, since Kerensky's fall.
have worked SO diligently to further
the kaiser's interests in Russia, at the,
expense of Russia.
OF primary Importance is the agree
ment of Japan and the United States
looking toward military intervention
in Russia. with the object of backing
uD the Czecho-Slovacs in Siberia and
at the same time protecting the vast
military stores which are at Archangel
and Vladivostok-
In conjunction with this, the activ-
tiles of the allies in the Archangel re-
gion on the Murman coast, where
French, British. American and loyal Rus
sian forces have defeated the bolsheviki,
seized Archangel and driven the enc
mics of Russian freedom southwark.
is another development which is of vital
importance.
As an outgrowth of the movements
of the allies the bolsheviki are re-
ported to have declared war upon
England. That declarations of war
against the United States and others
of the allies will come is almost fore
ordained, for it is to the interest of
Germany and the fast disintegrating
power of the bolsheviki that there be
some cause around which the two
can rally support for their cause.
War against an enemy of the Russian
people-as the bolsheviki will make
it appear-possibly is the greatest
move the enemies of democracy can
take in the east. and will win popular
support greater than any other pol
icy, inasmuch as all other things
which once tended to rally the people
about Lenine and Trotzky long since
have been discredited. These leaders
still may have hopes that the war
issue will attract sufficient numbers of
unenlightened people to their cause
that they may successfully combat
growing allied influence in Russia,
but the degree of support they may
receive is conjectural.
That there will be some elements of
the Russian people who will flock to
the bolsheviki under duress or will
ingly. goes without question. But the
more enlightened elements of the ma
tion, those who have been oppressed,
bounded and whose ranks have been
riddled by assassination, simply be-
cause the bolsheviki saw in them the
eventual saviors of the real Russia,
may be expected to stand back of the
allies.
Though 1t is announced that the al
lied force which is to operate from
Vladivostok, the Pacific port, will not be
large, when compared to the armies
battling in other sections of the world.
this force will be sufficient to protect the
great military stores in this region,
stores which eventually will go into the
hands of loyal Russian forces At the
same time the allies will protect the rear
of the westward-moving Czecho-S -Slovaa
armies.
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The very presence Of allied troops in
this region will go far toward undermine
ing the re-
Will Undermine naming boil
Bolshevik Regime. ~ tto n 5
Throughout Siberia and tend to unity
those factions which have been striving
for local power in the Siberian regions
Gen. Hovarth. who some time back pro-
claimed himself military dictator Of the
tok. and has pledged himself to support
the moves Of the allied governments as
well as the Czecho- -Slovaes. Other minor