Evening star., 1918-08-05
MILLION RUSSIANS
FIGHTING BY SPRING
Information Bureaus Head
Says 1t Will Follow
Allied Assistance.
CZECH0-SLOVAKS BACKED
Special Dispatch 10 rns Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
NEW YORK. August 5.-A. J. Sack,
director of the Russian information
bureau in the United States. has is
sued the following statement:
The statements Just made by the
United States and Japanese govern
ments mark an epoch in allied policy
toward Russia. These statements.
coming simultaneously with the
great allied victory in the west, spell
decisive defeat for German militar-
ism in the near future.
Three points are outstanding in
the new allied policy toward Russia.
First, the solemn declaration that the
allies are coming as friends and are
ready to do everything in their pow
er to free Russia from Germany's
yoke. to restore to Russia her lost
territories and to preserve the Rus
possibility for free development. Two
other points refer to practical steps
to be undertaken Immediately by the
allies in Russia.
The allies have decided to render
Russia general, economic, financial
and technical help and military help
in supporting by all possible means
the Czecho-Slovak movement.
Definite Anti-German Move.
AThe Czecho:Slovak movement is a
definite anti-German movement. Since
the bolsheviki and the soviet govern
ment, which the bolsheviki dominate,
tried, as tools in the hands of Ger
many. to interfere with this move
ment and to disarm the Czecho-Slo
yaks, the Czecho-Slovak movement
became naturally not only an anti
German, but also an anti-bolshevists
and anti-Soviet movement.
while the best elements of the
Russian democracy. not only the lib
eral- but also the revolutionary and
socialist factions. have fought bit
terly against the bolsheyiSt rule sup
ported by German bayonets, the boil
sheviki through their own reports,
and through the reports of those for
eign correspondents who. for one rea-
son or another, chose to serve the boil
shevist cause, repeated continuously
that the Russian masses were with
them.
The success of the Czecho-Slovak
detachments, amounting not to more
than 100000 men. only partially arm
ed and equipped. is the best illustra-
tion of the fact that the bolsheviki
and the soviets, which they dominate,
have no large following among the
population, that their rule was and
IS tyrannlc rule. supported partial
ly by the bayonets of the red guards,
a well paid body of armed men under
the leadership, very often of criminals
and former agents of the czar, and
partially by German bayonets.
Territory They Hold.
''The Czecho-Slovak army, small and
poorly equipped, is now holding the
Siberian road, almost the entire Vol
ga region and important positions in
the south. The Czecho-Slovak posi-
tons present chain of important
TsIra.egic T1a1 eenters, stretching from
Wherever the Czecho-Slovak ap-
pears the bolshevist bands flee and
'the population greetS the CZecho-
Slovaks as friends and liberators,
Joining them and re-esta blishing or
der. This is the beginning of the
resurrection of Russia
If Russia is given new economic
financial and technical help on the
proper scale. with the Czecho-Sloya
movement actively supported, we will
see the Russian front re-established
probably not later than the spring of
1919.
Million Armed by Spring.
Hundreds of thousands of Russian
patriots, officers and soldiers, veterans
OF this war. will begin to join the
Czecho-Slovak and allied detachments,
organizing around them as around a
nucleus for the future Russian army
The spring of 1919 may see not less
than million men standing at the
eastern front, and against this million
Germany will have to put up at least
a million of her own with probably
another million guarding her lines of
communication. The deeper in the
interior of the country this Russian
line lies the more force will Germany
need to guard the rear of her own
army among population so hostile
as the Russian population of today.
TT is entirely within the limits OF
possibility that by the spring of 1919
resurrected Russia will divert not
less than two or two and one-half
million of German and Austrian SOL
Same role and will render the allied
cause the same service as she did be-
fore the bolshevist revolt in Novem-
bar. 1917.
sWorst Is over.n
The worst is over. The allied pow
sr is now growing daily on the west
ern front and will grow daily on the
eastern front. Russia is coming back
where she belongs, into the family of
the worlds democracies fighting the
great war of emancipation.
The decision and the declaration of
the United States and Japanese gov
ernments correspond with the de-
sires and convictions of the best ele-
ments of Russian democracy and I
Joy and enthusiasm in those parts of
Russia. where it has been possible to
learn about the wise and brotherly
decision OF RuSsia'S allies"