Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-10-17
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BEFORE Late
AID SHOULD Be
GIVEN RUSSIA
BedshtedC Country Should b Help-
ed Before Too Late 70 Be
store Order.

British Headquarters ait Fladiyostok
lOct- 10 Delayed}-Peace with Germany
now will make Russia a de facto Ger
man colony" said General Knox, chief
OF the British military mission. today.
While it Is impossible now to recon.
struct the Russian front in the sense
lof a continuous line of trenches from,
the Baltic t o the Black sea, I think the
allied forces should move to the Trails.
II we had done that a month ago we
should have been in Moscow this win
tier.
while it is now too late to reach
that city, / think the allied troops should
advance to show the Czechs and rus.
slams that we really intend to help.
Russia Reported boiling"
"A few days ago. he went on, II
met a Russian officerswho had crossed
Russia from Archangel, He said RUS
STA was boiling now: that IL we did not
do something Immediately, everything
would fail fiat. Now is the psychology.
cal moment. The peasants have never
been for bolshevism. 1t made Roadway
only in the large cities. The hoisheuisIs
are workingmen. They represent only
a very small share of the population
here. not as In England and America.
Here scarcely 10 per cent of the p0pu-
lation lives in the Industrial centers.
But the peasants and intellectuais are
against the bolsheyiki.
Front at Trails Urged.
although the bolsheviki are conduct
ing a tremendous propaganda. money
is of no value to them, for they are
printing millions Of rubies daily at Pet
Samara district alone the bolsheviki
spent 300, 600, 1000 rubles for propaganda.
The bolsheviki paid all workmen S ru-
bles a day and gave them IL pounds of
bread daily. lone was required to work
1.-THE poor Czecho.Slovaks have been
fighting against such people for all the
allies. fighting continuously for three
months. Their companies are reduced
so per cent. The Volga is 5000 miles
from Vladivosteks and the big, rich and
powerful allies are sitting here doing
nothing.
II do not mea that we should go
into the interior an destablish a front
against the Germans There will never
be a continuous line of trenches as II
was in 1916. ] mean that there should
be a ural center for all the allies.
German propagandists are now going
about the country saying that the allies
do not intend to help Russia, that they
are staying in yladivostok. When the
Russians and Czechs fail to see the al
lies they believe these tales.
Humanitarian Reasons.
Furthermore, there are bands Of
Russian soldiers under various generals
encamped along the Volga. These neee
clothing, ammunition, food and money
which the allies should furnish
1t was suggested to the general tina,
the allies were supposed to be united
on their policies. He replied:
England, France and Italy agree as
to what steps should be taken, but un'
fortunately they are b solid. The fact
remains that we ought to help the
Czechs. We ought to do it, too, for
humanitarian reasons. I wonder il the
hunanitarians OF all countries under,
stand what it means for the Czechs to
evacuate a city like Samara. | wonder
il they realize 1T means that every de
cent citizen win get his throat cut as
soon as the Czechs leave.
IF we want 70 help them they will
all be with us. Although the people
have not been taught selfsacrifice, they
are capable Of great enthusiasm, II we
let them down alter promising help. w
shall be doing an awful thing"