The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-17
NE View Movement in siberia.

II is to be taken for granted that the
despatch of British force to Siberia, of
fetal news of which has reached Wash
ington, was done by sanction of the Yer
sailles council, which is generally be-
lieved to have taken action at its meet
ing July 5. 1t was at that time intimat-
ed that statement was withheld for
military reasons, but as soon as military
activity begins such statement may be
expected, and indeed will be strongly
called for by the general obscurity.which
envelops the situation.
At present it is merely explained that
these reinforcements are being sent to
assist the Russians and Czecho-S lovaks
in guarding the valuable stores at Vladi-
yostok from bolsheviki acting with Ger
man prisoners who are reported to be ad-
yancibg upon the city. This statement,
however, is no more likely to be taken
at face value than the directly opposite
reports with which we have been RECALLED
Of late, of the facile conquest of Siberia
by the Czecho- Slovak legion, and of the
setting up of provisional government
in Siberia with the unanimous support
of the population. The stories do not
hang together, and we have reason to
believe that neither of them is true.
Confidence in the new Siberian govern
ment, which was damaged by the plain
ly avowed anxiety of the Czechs to avoid
embodiment in Russian affairs, is not
strengthened by the news that the provi-
sional ruler chosen is Lieut.-G Hor-
yath, for many years Russian command
er at Hardin, and vice president and gen
eral manager of the Chinese Eastern
railway. His Aattering expressions of
friendship for the allies and his declara-
tion that his government means to re-
new all the treaties contracted by pre-
vious Russian governments with the al
lied powers cannot blind us to the fact
that he is extremely likely to be per-
soma non grata with the Russian people.
His present seat of government, in fact,
pending reinforcement, is not on Russian
soil, but at Pogranitza, station on his
railway on the Chinese side Of the from
tier
No government indeed, which proposed
to renew the imperialistic treaties which
the bolsheyiki published, could hope to
command popular support in Russia,
which in giving up the cars imperial
ism rejected at the same time the impe-
rialism of the cars allies. On this point
the bolshevki do not stand alone; even
those revohtionaries who are ready to
fight for the abrogation of the Brest-Li-
tovsk treaties have accepted a new code
of international ethics which conflicts
with many Of the diplomatic arrange.
ments made earlier in the war. In tax
ing His stand for the renewal of the se-
cret treaties, therefore, Gen. Horvath,
however good his purpose, does the allies
disservice The British government has
I given Parliament assurance that steps
toward the revision of the disliked treat.
les had been taken, and it cannot well Co
operate with a Siberian government
pledged to force those treaties upon the
Russian people. 1t would appear that the
general manager of the Chinese Eastern
railway, however his declaration may
have satisfied the correspondents Of the
Northcliffe press, has at the outset de-
stroyed whatever usefulness he might
have had in the political field. His coop
Grafton would only compromise the allies
| in field where their first and greatest
diplomatic task is TO disarm suspicion
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