New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

tagonism of the Soviet government had
been made plain, "The Boston Tran
script" declared editorially that doubt
less Lenine and Trotzky would declare
war on the Allies This newspaper con-
tinued:
THAT would be an essential part of their
bargain with the German forces which
dragged thes two men out of their Western
European exile, provided them with safe con-
duct across the Central Empires, and set
them at work releasing the German armies
for operations in the West and paralyzing
every form of Russian resistance to Ger
man domination But a Bolshevik war
against anybody is ridiculous thing. Boil
shevikia has no armies worthy of the name
no command no supply, no artillery, no
obedience.
"Certainly the Allied nations have great
opportunity to restore Russia to reason and
to her allegiance to the Allied cause. The
steps taken on the White Sea have thus far
been we'll concerted and we'll carried out
The Murman ralway-that is, the western
side Of the sea-was first occupied in such
way as to flank the German force of some
$4,000 in Finland (This force is powerless,
by the way, to attack the Allies, because a
vast region of roadless swamps must be
crossed to get at them). Next, it occupied
Archangel, on the eastern side of the sea,
and moved rapidly southwark, raising a
standard of strength to which the Russian
people, tired of anarchy and starvation, can
repair
1.-The White Sea intervention thus far has
been we'll managed. What it now needs is
effective support from Siberia and the east
not with handful of men in merely
moral intervention, but with a real and ir-
resistible force, which will sound the knell
of Russia's exploitation by the German
tyranny and aggression"
The Soviet Fails
1 to Function
The fading of material resources be-
fore disorganization is made responsible
for the Soviet disintegration by "The
New York Evening Post" If the Soviet
government breaks down, declares "The
Post" it will not be on account of at
tacks without or counter revolution
within.
"The true reason will be the failure of
the Soviet scheme of government to func-
ton. People without work and starving will
not submit forever to be fed on the east
wind of MARKHAM dogma. When Trotzky de-
cares that the great enemy of the Soviets
is famine he conveys more than he intends.
he urges the peasants and the workingmen
to crush the Czecho- -Slovaks,' and seems
panied and indignant when the clamor rises
for more bread But it is idle to imagine
that a new heaven and new earth can he
created by fiat, in Russia or anywhere else.
IN disregard of infexible material condi-
tlons. The dictatorship of the proetariat
must at least be able to assure the nro]e
tariat food"
Irotzky declares that the hour has come
to master these counter revolutionar;es
Every officer in command will be watched
on both sides by war commissaries with
revolvers in their hands. No officer will
be allowed to take a single step without
supervision, and if he wavers he viii, he
shot!'
ut is upon an army thus Differed that
Lenine and Trotzky propose to rely to re-
store good order and respect for law
throughout Russia"
Whereupon "The Evening Sun" ex-
claims:
Blessed, to certain extent, be the name
of Francisco Villa! Had it not been for
him and his various colleagues in the work
of Mexican disruption how should we now