Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-19
EVERY EVENING WILMINGTON DELAWARE FRIDAY.

Different. havs been told hat when
the Wurkr,r' Militia Of Finland WINS being
driven back by the German army, backed
bv the Finnish "White Guards tho
Finnish workers made sovcral appeals
for corporation ia the American irprr-
sentativrs I'm Russia. but so lar as |
know, those appeals WIRE loft unheeded.
| thanks ia the prejudice which was so
clevurly created against thcm by Cor
| man agents
But Il In not yrt too late TO correct this
mistake,
Tho Allies may prevent Germnnys =
plan in koln from being carried out and
their movement crushed by sending there
n considerable army. They may for
some time save the nituation by organizing
some "indcpcndcnt state" in tho kola
Peninsula The rcportH i'll the daily
press today nro that the population of
tho Murman coast has declared their indie
pcndcnce from tho Sovieta, and IL willing
to cooperate with the Allies. Tho
nows is plausible enough but it should be
remembered that the population of tho
Murman coast CONSISTS of few hundreds
of fishermen who certainly can not form
u nucleus Of an independent occupation
of that region There IL one grave draw
will undoubtedly cause suspicion III
Russia that the independent state IL
being organized with the view of making
a basis of operations against the Soviet
government of Russia Such n suspicion
would create innumcrable other difficulties
which would make questionable the
possibility of an allied resistance to the
Germans on the Thurman coast. There
fore quite naturally the question arises
Why not consider an easier and more
efficient SOLUTION of the situation? Tho
majority OF the Finnish people bitterly
resent the German occupation of I'm
land and the rule Of the White Guard
Juukers In Russia there are tens Of
thousands of Finnish Red Guards
driven from their own country hy the
German invaders who would Jump Mt the
possibility OF cooperating with forces
opposed 10 German domination of Pm
land There arc SIXTY thousand oi these
soldiers mhucd with the most intense
hatred against Germany Nhv not try Ia
organize them INTO an effective body
which from the midst of the Gcrmauzed
Finland. as well as from the rear, would
attack tho German Finnish forces now
striving to occupy the Nurman coast
This. of course can l,c done only ON the
basis VI q sincere agreement with the
Russian Sovtcts Nv contention Is that
the value Of such An agreement should not
he underestimate nor made impossible
by alliances with counter r-rrvolutiomsts
IN Russia. who quickly would betrav the
Allies rs did the tkrainlan Rada md
the Finnish White Guards Send n
commission to RUSSIA composed Of mon
who have the confidence of the Russian
Workers government. and Il viii be
much moro easy than Is generally rnaEln-
Cd. to establish some rcal cooperation
with the Finnish and the Russian Sovicts,
which would count very much against the
Fmuo( (ierman mnker rule m FINLAND
and on the Arctic coast
II tho Allies public and especially the
public in America were less under tho
influence of the wlllfully lying Ttorlcs
circulated hV pro-(,ctInan Rourcos dis
crr,litIup the Finnish Socialists and If
thcrc WIRE less prejudice against co
operating with the Finnish Socialists,
because thcv am Socialists, II would bc
easy on thc tasis Of cooperation with tho
Finnish Workers government so bring
about genuine understanding between
the Russian Sovlcts and America To
slight md 10 lgnorc and even 10 take
steps deliberately hostile 10 tho Russian
Soviet bN encouraging counUF-hVoiu-
tionary elements N Russia y e play
game from which t'crInmy alonc can
proht The proposed armed intervention
Ia Russian atlnrs nll hring nothing but
evil war an weakening Of the only
clcmcn; IN RUSSIA and in Finland which
naturally IS nnti-(irrnan and 10 encourage
such elements whose All interests lie with
Germany
America today in hC midst oi he world
war and ns the most important factor in
he. lntcrnationa situation is called upon
to understand the conditions II Iuropr