The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-10-25

re-enforce the comrades whom they
had left behind them pending the ar
rival of troops of the entente.
Several American regiments have al
ready been disembarked Mt Vladivostok,
as well as a large Italian contingent.
French troops have been hurried thith-
cr from Tonllin and Indo-China and
a large British force from India. The
! bulk, however of the allied army
which is to preserve Siberia, with all
her bOundless industrial and CONNER
cial possibilities and her literally in
eXhaustible latent riches, for the Rus
sian people from the enconomic and
political despotism of Germany is be-
ing furnished by Japan.
Released Prisoners Oppose Them.
The CZechO-SlOyak forces have re-
tained their arms. But they are han
dicapped by the lack of ammunition
and above all by the absence of artil-
lery both light and heavy. They have
against them not alone the bOlsheviki,
but also considerably more than 100,-
900 German and Austrian prisoners of
war who after their capture were in
termed in Siberia, who were released
under the terms of the bolshevlk treaty
Of peace at Brest-Litovsll and who
have been since then furnished by the
holshevik government and by the Ger
man military authorities with arms,
munitions, artillery, supplies, money
and even airplanes. They constitute
formidable enemy.
Fortunately for our cause, the bulk
of the people in Siberia are for US. The
white population of Siberia is com
posed in the main part of a class i'm
measurably superior in intelligence, ed
ucation, progressiveness and blood to
the Moscovite mujiks, who form 90 per
cent of the population of European
Russia.
We of the entente owe a debt of graf
itude to these gallant CzechO-Sl0vaks
who have remained to champion our
cause in European and Asiatic Russia.
Were it not for the fight which they
have put up in Siberia against Ger
many and the bolsheviki the Teuton
domination of that enormous territory,
almost a continent in itself, would be
well nigh complete and almost beyoad
reclamation.
If Germany had control Of Siberia
she could afford to surrender, not alone
Belgium and the invaded districts of
h1rt al 7
raine, away back to the Rhine; to fore
60 any idea of dominating Bulgaria
and Turkey; in one word, to abandon
well nigh all her most loudly proclaim
ed and most cherished ambition in 9TH
er directions.
Would Be Immune to Boycott.
1t would place within her reach all
the raw materials she needed for her !
industries and all the markets that she
required for their exploitation. 1t |
would render her wholly independent
of any economic boycott that we might
organize against her after the war
that boycott which she breads above
all the other forces that we can bring
to bear against her. 1t would restore
to her q prosperity and an economic
that would allow her to treat
as of no importance her failure to OBJ
tain tndemnities.
1t would eliminate in her political
and commercial mastery of China, with
the latters busy population of 400 mil
lions, and It would render her a stand
ing menace to the island empire of Ja-
pan, to Americas rich dependencies In
the Philippines, to Frances great col
1nies in Indo-China and to the British
empire of India. 1t would pave the