Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-26
ALLIES DECIDE
NOT TO INCREASE
FORCE IN RUSSIA
Propose to Guarantee Moral
Support to Governments
Which Have Sprung Up
in That Country.

Paris, Dec. 25.-The allied govern
ments have decided against further
intervention in Russia, at least for
the present, according to Indications
from official circles. Great Britain
and the United States, it is repre-
scented, while recognizing that Rus
STA should be assisted in way TO
permit il to return to normal condi-
tons, point out that military inter-
vention on large scale would in
volve difficulties and dangers OF all
kinds.
Stephen Pichon. the French eor-
eign minister, explained the situation
at length to the committee on for
eiga relations yesterday. He said
the solution at present favored was
TO guarantee moral support to the
governments which had sprung up
at various points on Russian and
Siberian territory.
U. S. Consul Arrested.
Odessa, Dec. 25.-The bolsheviki
have arrested American Consul
Treadwell at Tashkent, Russian
Turkestan, according to wireless
message received here.
The volunteer army which is hold
ing Odessa under French command,
is to be increased by attachments
from the Crimea. The main force of
the republican army, which is now
10 miles from Odessa, is reported to
have received reinforcements from
, kiev, who came in an armored train.
More than 200 persons were killed
/ in the street battles here on Decem-
Der IL, a revised count shows. One
third of these were civilians. Several
school children were wounded.
Siberian Situation Unsettled.
Vladivostok, Dec. 25.-General
Semenoff, the anti-bolshevik leader,
who refused to recognize Admiral
kolchak as dictator in the Omsk
government and whom efforts have
been made to reconcile, has finally
agreed to give Admiral Kolchak
recognition, provided Admiral Kol-
chak agrees to retire in favor of
I Genearl Denikine, lietman of the
Don Cossacks, Immediately after
a junction is effected of the forces
east and west and also withdraw
his order branding General Semenoff
as a traitor, besides leaving General
Semenoff in command of his army.
This is the latest phase of the dit
flculty created by General Semenoff's
attitude, the outcome of which is not
yet apparent. General Oba, the jap
anese officer in the local command,
protests his neutrality in the dispute.
but declares that he had recom-
mended the recognition OF Admiral
kolchak.
Economic conditions at Chita are
SFery unfavorable. There is barely
one train a day between ilanchuria
and Irkutsk, and during the last ten
days only two freight trains have
come through from Manchuria, be-
cause OF the lack OF locomotives.
General Semenoff denies the
charge that he had been stopping
the running of trains. He says the
trouble is attributable to the faulty
railway administration and the lack
of funds. A telegram from Omsk
dated December says the Russian
government there has asked the Jap
anese to state in writing whether
they are supporting General SEM
enoff and to what extent. On De-
cember 10 word came from Omsk
that if the situation did not im-
prove. the government would re-
quest an American commission to
proceed to Chita for an investiga-
ton 1t is. asserted in this connection
that the French commissioner stated
there would be an investigation OF
this complaint to the allies regard
ing the action of one ally
A private letter from Semipaltinsk.
on the Irish in western Siberia. re-
ported that the entire population
was dying of starvation. The dead
were said to be lying on the streets
with none to bury them. The town
had been for morths, it was added.