, 1918-07-18
Two New Pro-AlIy Republics Are
Established in Northern
Part of Russia.
PROBLEM or AID UNSOLVED
Won Hlntze, Pan-German, to Succeed
Won kuehlmann - Italians and
French Conducting Successful Often
slve Against the Austrians In South
ern Albania.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD.

What shall we do to help Russian
was still the leading question for the
governments of the allied nations asst
week.. Developments, though they
we're in the main favorable to the al
lied cause, had not greatly clarified the
situation. 1t seems apparent that Ger
many, too, is In doubt as to what
course to pursue In the neal East. Her
policy Of terrorism and grab-an has
not been working u well and has
caused bitter complaint even In the
reichstag.
The people of the Thurman coast,
between Finland and the White sea,
where there are large allied military
stores under guard of British and
American forces, have created the
White sea republic, and in the rest
of Arctic Russia, from the White sea
to Siberia, the republic of Wologda-
czhe has been established. Both of
these new states are anti-German and
pro-ally and their people promise to
form active forces against the leu
tons If given aid. In western Siberia
the bolsheviki have been defeated
again and are reported to have eva
uated Irkutsk, and a provisional gov
eminent for Siberia has been set up
in No~vonicolacvsk. This government
has laid out a program that includes
the liberation of Siberia from the boil
sheviki; the avoidance, If possible, of
foreign Intervention; universal suf-
frage, distribution Of the land among
the landless and other economic re-
forms. 1t intends to summon a con-
stituent assembly and to restore law
and order. All this Is being done I'M
der the protection of the2 army of
Czecho-S lovaks that has continued It's
victorious campaign against the boil
shsviki and the German INT Austrian
war prisoners who are aiding them.
Thus there appears to be forming
the established authority that has
been considered requisite for the ex-
tending of aid to the Russians, at least
in Siberia. But President Wilson
would not consent to the dispatch OF
an armed force that would mean the
weakening of the western front in Eu-
rope, and doubtless the other allied
leaders agreed with him. Further
more, Mr.. Wilson especially Is averse
to departing from the policy of nom
interference in the internal affairs Of
a friendly nation. This does not mean
hat the allies will abandon the plan
to send to Siberia supplies from Amer
les and a commission to extend help
of an industrial and economic nature.
Moreover, the Czecho- Slovaks there
are doing so valuable a work that the
entente powers intend to give them
such moral and material support as
they may need, provided they stand
by their pledge to refrain from assum-
ing permanent control over the coun-
If a military force is sent into ST.
IBERIA 1t probably will be largely made
up Of japanese and Chinese.
ID
Through German sources comes the
assertion that the soviet government
of Russia has declared 1t will ally
itself with Germany If an Anglo-Jap-
anese expedition intervsnes In Siberia.
No doubt Lenine would commit HIM
self to such a course. but 1t is a Quss-
ton whether he would be sustained
Oy any great hunlpers VI uuSslhns.
10
Gsrmany's penetration of western
Russia and Finland has been accom-
panied by such brutalities that the
minority socialists In the reichstag
have been attacking the governments
policy strongly. Their leader, Hugo
Haase, asserts that sincs the Germans
sntered Finland 5000 workmsn have