Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-19
Two New Pro-AIly Republics Are
Established in Northern
Part Of Russia.
PROBLEM OF AID UNsolvED
Won Hlntxe Par.Gernan, to Succeed
Won kuehlmann - italians and
French Conducting Successful Often.
sIve Against the Austrians In South.
ern Albania.
BY EDWARD W. PickARD.


what shall we do to help RussiaT'
was still the leading question for the
governments of the allied nations last
week. Developments though they
were In the main favorable TO the nj
lied cause, had not greatly clarified the
situation. II seems apparent that Ger
many, too, is In doubt as TO what
course to pursue In the near East. Her
policy Of terrorism and grab-nll has
not been working out well and has
caused bitter complaint even In the
reichstag.
The people of the Thurman coast,
between Finland and the White sen,
where there are large allied military
stores under guard Of British and
American forces, have created the
White sea republic, and In the rest
OF Arctic Russia, from the White sea
to Siberia, the republic of Wologda-
czhe has been established. Both OF
these new states are anti-Germun and
form active forces against the leu
tons II given aid. In western Siberia
the bolsheviki have been defeated
again and are reported to have eyac-
uated lrkutsk, and provisional gov
eminent for Siberia haS been set up
In NOvonicolacvsk. This government
has laid out program that includes
the liberation of Siberia from the boil
sheviki; the avoidance, II possible, OF
foreign intervention universal suf-
frage, distribution of the land among
the landless and other economic re-
forms. II intends to summon II con
stituent assembly and to restore law
der the protection Of the army of
CZechO-SlOvaks that has continued Its
victorious campaign against the boil
sheviki and the German and Austrian
war prisoners who are aiding them
Thus there appears to be forming
the established authority that has
been considered requisite for the cx-
tending of aid to the Russians, at least
In Siberia. But President Wilson
would not consent to the dispatch of
an armed force that would mean the
weakening of the western front In Eu
rope, and doubtless the other allied
leaders agreed with him. Further
hr all 10
to departing from the policy Of non
interference In the internal affairs Of
friendly nation. This does not mean
that the allies will abandon the plan
to send to Siberia supplies from Amer
lea and commission to extend help
of an Industrial and economic nature.
are doing so valuable a work that the
entente powers intend to give them
such moral and material support as
they may need, provided they stand
by their pledge to refrain from assum-
ing permanent control over the coun-
try through which they are passing.
IBERIA 1t probably will be largely made
up of japanese and Chinese.
Through German sources comes the
assertion that the soviet government
Of Russia has declared II will ally
itself with Germany If an Anglo-Jap-
anese expedition intervenes In Siberia.
No doubt Lenine would commit him
self to such a course, but 1t Is a ques-
ton whether he would be sustained
by any great numbers of Russians.
Germany's penetration of western
Russia and Finland has been accom-
panied by such brutalities that the
minority socialists In the reichstag
have been attacking the governments
policy strongly. Their leader, Hugo
Haase, asserts that since the Germans
entered Finland 10000 workmen have