Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-12
FACTS AND COMMENT

surprfsing that this is the first at tempt to prey on our coaStwiSe ship ping. The material damage within the powers of a submarine of our eastern coast is little, when compared with what she may do in the waters about Great Britain, not only becaltse more ships approach British ports than leave America, but also because fewer days are lost in going to and fro be- tween her base and her hunting grounds. Unless the Germans have more U-boats than they can use about Europeon waters-an impossible con- clusion,-they must have had some ulterier motives sending them so far from home. Among these may well have been the hope of sinking out ward bound transports and the belief that danger close at hand would de- ter the United States from sending more destroyers abroad. Whatever the intention, it has thus far at least been unFealized. Indignation not terror has followed the news of unarmed schoorers and passenger vessels sunk and increased enlistments for naval service manifest the American iHten- tion to sweep the pests from the sea. The splendidly organized factory and transportation systems of all the bell ligererts are producing and supply ing all the artillery and ammunition that the soldiers can well use. Hence more and more does the final decision | in the war resolve itself into ques- ton of men. To this question there can be but one answer, unless the kaiser obtains such a hold on Russia that. he can avail himself of 1S0 mil lions of Russians to raise his food and z !, ,sr aIye ff,n German lines of even few hundred thousands of the stolid, much endur- i ing Russian soldier would easily turn 1 the scale. Once such troops were or ganized and at the front, they would make admirable cannon fodder. Driv- en on by a rolling barrage falling be- hind them, there would be no pos- | sibility of retreat. Advancing wave on wave. they would receive the allies 1 bullets in their own bodies and by l their death open the way to victory for their German masters. The gene ral staff that has coolly sacrificed mil l lions of it's own native soldiers would
 eagerly seize upon the alien Slave te pave their way to world dominion.
 When Russia first fell a victim te German intrigue belshevik folly anG peasant ignorance, the allies meurnee the loss of her active participation or the battle line but did not immediately suspect that her former soldiery nigh eventually swell the armies of tht foe. Even now many people thinl that the Russian soldier would no fight against his country's former al lies. But the Russian soldier is ou
 of employment, hungry and in rage His home is either in ruins, in thu
 hands of the enemy or miles away He wanders from place to place, now
 beating his way on the railroad, nov seizing an entire train and running i
 where he pleases. His sustenance il what he can beg or steal These ar
 tens of thousands of these trained sol
 diers wandering throughout Russia
 Any organized military establishment
 would have no difficulty in enlistin,
 an army of these men, merely witl
 the offer of food, clothes and regula , pay. The promise of employment il , local police or garrison duty weul i be kept until discipline had again be
 come a habit, after which the force
 could be entrained by night and sen
 to the western battle front. The en
 tire allied world is therefore determin , ed the Germany shall not have thi means to conquer left within her grasI dHu lIl6 OuICIy dSdatJSL ally SuStl pO5 Sibility is at last being hearkened t l even in the White House, whence ha l come heretofore the sole oppositio to the allies taking a hand in Russia The president has refused to sane ! ton either a Japanese or an allied ad ; vance into Russia from the east, giv ing the same reason that he gave i the case of Mexico, viz: that ever
 nation has a right to settle within it , self what form of government it de sires. But such damage as was don by permitting the Mexicans to indulg
 in their passion for civil war fe 5 chiefly on their own country. Russia } experiment in anarchy however is in 7 Tolying the whole cause of civiliZa f ton. As for the practical, apart fror the theoretical difficulties in the wa
 of intervention, the belief is fast dis appearing that all classes in Russi would unite to oppose interference l from without, Not only have the not united against Germany's aggres I sion, but they have shown an utter in g capacity to do anytyhing. The belshe f wiki, after going through the farce ( , concluding a treaty with German. have sat idly by while Germany dis regarded their treaty and helped hel
 self to all that she wanted in Russi
 The only government that existe
 either by law or by force in the who t huge empire has spent these cruci F days in abstractly discussing the righ
 of the proletariat to appropriate u
 property of others and to govern u 4 whole country. Not one move hs ' been made toward feeding the starr ' ing, rehahilitating the ruined railwa.
 and resuming industry and agricuitur
 Hence the better ciasses-and the, g exisit even in Russia-haye begun 0 look for some power that shows son = prospect of functioning as 9 real ge'
 ernment Within the country no sut
 power has appeared and some at lea :, are looking longingiy beyond their oN J borders.
 g At the beginning of the drive iowa l. the Marne, the Germans undoubted
 performed brilliant feat in ightil e their way across the Aillette, up al e over the steep nights of the Chem if des Danes and down and across bo
 the Aisne and the Vesle rivers. Tn