Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-16
INF0RMA TI0N
NOT DEFINITE
Parliament Unable to Get
Views Of the British
Toward Bolsheviki.

London, Nov. 21.-(Correspondence
of the Associated Press. )-Demands
mad in parliament for information
concerning the policy Of the Entente
powers toward Russia have failed to
elicit very definite information as to
British policy toward the land of the
Bolshevik. The British press is in
t%sistent that Russia must be helped
economically, altl ough it confesses
utter lack of information as to the
attitude of the Entente powers toward
h existing government in Soviet
Russia.
F, Replying to a question from Lieu
tenant Colonel Lord Cavendish-Be
timex as to the actual conditions in
Soviet Russia, Arthur ]. Balfour, the
foreign secretary, said:
THE dnformation at the disposal of
his 1ajesty's government Is to the
effect that the deliberate policy Of
the Bolshevist government Is n Of
determination by starvation. murder
and wholesale execution Of all parties
which do not support their regime"
Lord Cavendish- Bentinck then
asked: Has the government n al
tentative to- the present policy. which
apparently has no effect but to
strengthen the power Of the Boil
shevist government"
Mr.. Balfour responded he was not
aware that anything the British gov
eminent has done. or has attempted
to do. has strengthened the Boil
shevist government. He also said he
did not understand what his interro-
gator meant by an alternative
policy"
Russia's plight was brought before
the house Of again the same
day through a discussion of the future
of Armenia when M. P%onsonby, a
labor member. insisted that Turkish
rule over non-Ottoman races must be
Terminated, and asked for a clear
statement on the policy of the British
that the British public should be ad-
vised whether a state Of war exists
between the Entente powers and Rus
STA: what the British expeditions in
North Russia is doing what the inten-
lions of Great Britain are toward the
Bolshevist government. and whether
additional reinforcements are being
sent to Archangel.
Lord Robert Cecil. then under Sec
it was impossible to give any pledges
as to what the military position was,
or may be in Russia, without consul
tations with those responsible for
military affairs. He said, however.
the government is not inclined to
entangle the country, at the close of
the great war. in serious military
operations. The speaker then com
mented upon the labor members fall
ure to express condemnation Of the
Outrageous proceedings of the So
called Russian government"
1T is not only that governments
offenses against humanity which can
not be forgotten" said. Lord Robert
Cecil. but It has committed offenses
against this country which. IL con
mitted by any ordinary. civilized gov
eminent. would have more than JUS
titled this country in seeking redress
at arms. A British naval officer has
been killed while protecting q building
belonging to the British government.
Other British subjects have been
subjected to horrible hArdships, and
crimes have been committed which
stagger humanity. While primarily
we ought to consider the interests and
desires of the people, it is right to
say that the. Bolshevist government,
as such, is entitled to no consider
alton whatever at the hands Of the
British government"
When our boys over there eat sauer
kraut they call it Liberty cabbage"
and digestion il not impaired.