Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-25
Urges Immediate
Relief for Russia

Inc lHCtS speak FOR themselves. The
peace of Brest-LitoVsk led to dis
memoerment Of European Russia Ger
mans dominate in Finland, the Baltic
provinces, Lithuania, Poland and the
Ukraine.
They control the Baltic and RIacI,
Seas. Their troops are masters Of the
'rlmea and have penetrated as far east
as Roston on the Don Their Turkish
subordinates have seized the transCau-
casan provinces of Batum, kars and
Andahan. The little transCauCasian re-
pubic of the Georgians and Armenians
are heset with enemies. Caucasian Tar
tars. presumably inspired and organized
by Germans and Turks. have made
violent attempts to cut the line Of COM
munications at Baku and along the
caspian coast in the region of the oil
helds. Armenians Of Erzerum and tho
neighborhood are again at the cruel
mercy of the Turks. and the Turks are
advancing into Persia. The Germans are
opening a road into central Asia to the
confines of Afghanistan, to the ramparts
of India,
Further Geermanv is finally at peace
With Russia. The German ambassa dor
and his staff sit in Moscow The way
Is open for the peaceful penetration of
the Germans to the Nolga and Siberia
hoISheNlki Helpers
1T iS true that the Germans have re-
peatedly and contemptuously infringcd
the declared provisions of the treaty of
srest-Litovsk and that thu Bolshevi<i
have offered feeble and Ineffective re-
sistance. Having disorganiaed and de-
m0blized the regular army. the Boil
sheNiki are unable. even II they will,
TO oppose the advance of small but or
ganzed and disciplined German detach-
ments. The way is clear for the Ger
mans They may take what they will.
1t ts true, they meet with difficulties and
dangers.
The anarchy. -:hCh they themselves
fostered in order to break up Russia
is in many ways serious impedment
to their efforts. They can squeeze little
corn out Of the ruined and fermenting
Ukraine. They are confronted with
scores Of very priCkly social and ma -
tional questions; their hands are fun,
their brains are taxed but that does not
alter the fact that. Il the Allies give
them time, they will surmount their
difficulties. consolidate their position
and establish their depotsm in eastern
Europe.
1T is a signal error to suppose that
the Allies can gain anything by reCog-
nizing de Rolshevik If you love liberty
have committed against liberty and
democracy and support a tyranny worse
than that of the Car" And If YOU are
an opportunist. what point is there ir
supporting power that has been merely
destructive, that hangs, so to speak, ir
a vacuum?
Enemies to Great Cause
THE presupposition of the whole
singular pxStpDpa - ic pI
national energy. the suspension of the
normal functions of the state To i'm.
part stability to this power by recOg.
milton is to maintain miserable tryan.
ny, to immobilize Russia in the face OF
the menacng forces of oppression
have no doubt the Bolshevik find the
German dictatorship unpleasant, now
that they have brought it upon them.
selves and upon Russia, and they al
any rate cannot rouse to resistance tbs
energies of a Russia they so cruelty
manned. They are enemies of the cause
we are fighting for.
What then" Russia is essentially
for us. Russia is our ally, and will be
our ally If We will show ourselves. il
we will help directly. obviously. phySi,
Cally. II our presence is actually anC
tangibly felt. We have too long beer
, merely a name, a distant echo. hazy
What is needed is a rallying point
for the Allied cause on Russian terri
tory, center of organization. There
are hundreds of thOuSan ndS of Russians
who love their country, who feel bit
terly her same and ruin. and who
are longing for an opportunity tc
rebuild the state. They are thinking
scheminG, waiting sadly and weary il
towns Their hands are tied, their voices
4.
their more active forces are still carry
ing on a lonely struggle somewhere amid
the chaos Alexief's little band in re
mote regions of the Cossack steppes
Semenoff's forces in eastern Siberia
companies of guerrilla fighters cling
desperately to the hope of Russian free
dom in the Kirghiz steppes or in the
Caucasus and others still who bow
the head. feign submission, and watch
"All these would rally round the AL
! lies If they came and If the Allies dc
not come. the Germans WILL and Rus.
sian patriots. in desperation. will con.
sent to the establishment of order with
German aid rather than see their Coun-
try weltering in anarchy. its population
starving and plague and pestilence
stalking in over the ruins of their civ
lization. Russia will be under the Ger
/ man yoke. 1t is our great opportunity
/ now and our great duty.
/ Allied intervention is absolutely nee.
essary. 1t is necessary to oppose Ger
man expansion eastward ; it is necessary
to restore to the Russian people lib
erty of choice and action; it is necessary
to prevent Germany's penetration into
/ Asia and her exploitation of the huge
resources of the East. The task is
urgent; 1t will soon be too late. Allied
Intervention is not concerned with inter
nal Russian politics. Our action must
be disinterested. Its object must be tc
help the Russian people as whole, tc
protect them against their enemy and
ours We cannot dictate forms of Gov
ernment. We can only help the Russian
peoples to organize. to express their
/ will to re-estabish the state in form
that best pleases them. We must be
disinterested and If the movement Is
widely organized, we shall meet with
little resistance. We shall have the
warm sympathy of the bulk of the
haggard population, and shall find {
host of active supporters rallying joy
fully around us.
"Detachments of Allied forces must
be brought into Russia through en-
frances still available. through Arch
angel, where intervention would most
Immediately be effective. through the
/ Caucasus, and through Vladivostok
at so happens that the only ally tina
can easily throw troops into Russia Il