The sun., 1918-12-24
$4,000 LETT TROOPS
AWAIT ENTENTE AID
Ready to Cooperate When the
Allies Enter Baltic Prov
inces of Russia.
ESTHONIAN OUTLOOK BAD
Bolsheviki Have 10000 Men
on Narva Front-RepOrted
Defeated at Ekaterinburg.
Special Gable Despatch TO THE suN from the
London Times Serrfce.

LONDON 1aneS IocftiCe.
Copyright. 1878: all ri0Ats reserved.
CoPEN HAGEN, Dec. 23.--It Is reported
that 10000 Lettish soldiers are ready
to cooperate with the Entente troops
should they nrrive in the Baltic prov
inces OF Russia.
The Danish Minister to Russia. in
terviewed by the Times correspondent
on conditions in Russia. said II the
Entente Powers wished to gain any
results by Intervention they must act
now. 1t is said they intend to wait
until spring, but then II may be too
late, for resistance then certainly will
he much stronger. He thought an in
vasion would be very easy now
through Finland. He said only 10000
Bolshevik soldiers were in Petrograd
and OF these, $4,000 were unreliable.
being forced into the army through
fear OF starvation.
The correspondent asked the Min
lister II the Bolshevik movement was
due to Russian or to foreign elements.
and he replied that more than two
thirds of the Bolshevik leaders were
Jewish There. as in Germany and
elsewhere, the Bolshevik movement, he
said. Is OF Jewish origin and a Jewish
organization. The Bolsheviki see hope
only in revolution throughout
Europe. They refer with pride to the
results achieved in Austria and in
Germany, but are disappointed that
DR. Karl Liebknecht is not already in
power there. They consider the pres
ent time as Germany's kerensky
period, it's October revolution coming
quicker than in Russia.
There Is no fear OF Entente oocupa-
ton in middle or south Russia. because
they feel able 10 inoculate the Entente
soldiers with the revolutionary idea
Tho Minister said the only valuable
occupation points are Petrograd and
Moscow, these being the Bolshevik life
centres.
The Bolshev1ks are masters in prop
uganda. Lately NJ. Lenine made ad-
vances to the intellectual minded OF
the middle class. Tho intellectuais
were compelled by hunger to meet his
advances. In the middle class. for
merly Socialist Revolutlonaries, are
many hostile to the Entente. During
the Car period they frequently en-
ployed outrages, and viii now try the
same methods against the Entente.
BY winning over this class NJ. Lenine
hopes TO strengthen his own power
simultan eously by saying to the En-
tente that the workers OF Russia are
really q Socialist democratic state
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-ReportS to
the State Department from Hels!ngfors
said the Bolsheviki had an army OF
10. 900 men on the Narva front and
that the situation in Esthonia was
serious because OF the lack Of arms.
Defeat OF the Bolshev!k army on the
Ekaterinbrirg front in a decisive battle
by an army of loyal Russians, was re-
ported to-day in an official despatch
to the Russian Embassy from the
Omsk Government, which said the dis
orga nized Bolsheviki were retreating
northward toward Perm. The message
added that this was the first indie
pendent action OF moment against the
Bolsheviki and part OF a campaign
that was expected to unite some of the
loyal districts OF Russia and Siberia
Much war equipment and booty was
captured.
The embassy also was informed that
AlllUldn DOulOU, commanding tHc
Cossack troops OF the Orenburg region.
had asked Gen. Semenoff to submit 10
the authority Of Admiral Kolchak, die
tator OF the Omsk Government, II WAS
indicated in the cablegram that the
people OF Siberia were united in sup
port OF Kolchak.
BERSE. Dec 23.-Reliable informa-
ton from Russia brings confirmation
OF reports that the specialization OF in
dustry there is a complete failure
Onicial statistics show that In almost
all the 51S mills and factories con-
trolled by the State expenses have
considerably exceeded receipts. In
the FIRST four months OF 1918 the Gov
eminent paid out more than 400 900 900
rubles C200. 100000 under normal ex-
change) TO cover these deficits and has
been obliged up to the present to ad-
vance more than 100000, 900 rubles
$500 ,O0o,O00) to the factories under
its control.
Technical experts assert that Rus
sian industry has been crippled for
many years to come by the Bolshevik
regime.