The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-12

hcials to arrive at an exact understand ing of the situation as a whole
 It is evident that the bolshevik gov ernment is meeting with strong opposi- ton, not only from the old conservative elements in Russia, but also from cer- tain powerful factions just as inimicable to the restoration of the empire as the most pronounced Red Russian. Of these the cadets, or constitutioralists, are uii- derstood to be the most in evidence, not because of their numbers for the reason that they embody in their prin- ciples the moderate views which are cal-
 culated to appeal most strongly to the
 great mass of the Russian peasantry and
 to a considerable portion of the working
 men who are reaeting from the ideas of
 the license and impossible social and economic conditions which they accept
 ed without question in the first days of
 the revolution against the Kerensky re-
 gime.
 In the Ukraine technically separated
 from Russia by the Brest-Iitvosk treaty.
 the people are loathe to break off the
 old ties completely, and there is 8 dis
 tinct and powerful reaction against the
 German dictatorship. The Cossacks are
 reported to be ready to overturn the new government if not restrained oy
 the German army.
 In Siberia, the spirit of revolt at in tervaIs flares up brightly whenever the Cossack leader, General Semenoff, achieves a temporary victory over the
 RoIshe eyik troops Meanwhile, the many Russian army officers and statesmen who fled into Siberia and China are nursing the idea of an independent Siberian republic and giving the Bol- sheviki great concern by interfering with their control of the Siberian ran- road.
 of British troops from Mesopotamia into the Caucasas has given great moral land material aid to the people there who are fighting the Turks in deflance of the cession of their country made by the Bolsheviki in the Brest-Litovsk treaty.
 Finally, on the Arctic ocean. where the British and French marines hold the port of Kola and some miles or the railroad running southward to Petro- grad there is the nucleus of an inter national force which may have pro- found effect upon the German military Icampaign by gathering q sufficient number of Russians willing to resist the action of the Bolshevik government in surrendering part of the Mourman l country to Finland, which means Ger many,
 l All of these developments are being 1 closely watched and have been the sub- | iect of many exchanges of views be- tween the entente powers and America and Japan As has been stated. some 1 of the entente powers feel that the time has arrived for intervention, put 1 this view is not shared by the United IStates government, for the reason that | so far no practicable plan has been ad- lyanced that would insure the two oo- i iects which alone, it is held. would 1 iustify interference in the internal af-
 fairs of Russia
 1 It has been pointed out that there E are insurmountable obstacles in the
 way of placing of allied and American
 troops in Russia proper save in the small sector on the Arctic ocean where
 the British and French flags now are seen Technically that Is part of the territory under the Jurisdiction Of Gen
 eral Foch in his capacity of commander in-chief of all the allied and American troops If he desires to risk starting la campaign at such remote point, IL lis said that he may use Americans for this purpose in his discretion. l The only other avenue of approach Eby an army to European Russia would be by way of Siberia, and, unless the lallies are willing to turn that task over to Japan alone, which it is feared fthe Russians would resent, there Is no transportation available for the placing in Serbia of the numerous American and allied army that would be required for a successful campaign.