New Britain herald., 1918-07-12

a problem so difficult assthat of Rus sia. If R ussia is Germ anized- and can be placed behind& the Hohenzollern forces, Her. immense popu9atiop Of slavs organized as a tributary state to defend Germany with food and sup plies mining labor ts8aetory workers makes of munitions and even fighting men, then the Gernaans can carry on the war for ten years to scorne.
 Nothing could then reduce her to the necessary .ubJectaan until the gi- gaptic task of blocking every outlet fronf'tfe North sea to tfeEacff1c had been accomplished. This feal years @of war means a. task for ourselves SO stupendous as to ,stagger tn irnagina- tio11z % "2s> "r v,
 And yet Russia rnustTbe saved, not only from herself. but from Germany. The task is difficult but not inlpossi- !. ble. It is evident that Japanese forces are mot asked for one the wesf&g}' sfront while every "A Anaerican4 soldier is nesaed@ tl1ere, Taalt Ia:toaaiese .foraesl ca o43erata., through Siberia as our forces caaasssot. Japan iss our, ally, The attempts to estrangeeus made by certain 'American" newspapers have been of German origin and never by word or deed has Japan shown us a single act of bad faith. s
 To reassure the Russian 4EzReop1e it would be necessary that each of the Allies should be represented in an ex- peditionary force, but only in mod crate numbers,s with the bulk of the task confided to Japan. No doubt the Tfozl5ys and Lenines will threaten to throw tn cir, weight to the side of Ger many. It.sisS not what they say, but what they do: and we know from ex- perience they will play the German game. But they are a mob rather than a party. and do not represent one-tenth of one per cent of the Rus sian people.
 Can the world trust Japan? Why not? This is not a white mans world, a red mans world, black mans world or a yellow mans world. This is a crisis in human history when all these elements are banded together to combat the appalling atempt to throw the world back into barbarism under the detestable name of Kultur. The task before us is one to be taken in hand at once. The German in vasion of Russia is civil rather than military. and if the Bolshevists are
  for which they can pass no real title, Germany will enforce those rotten contracts with, a light heart.
 To the task of redemption Wash ington should apply at once our money and our moral support.
 (From the Troy Record.)
 A conference at the White House last Saturday is said to have endsd America's waiting; policy in regard to military action in Russia While the utmost secrecy in regard to the in- tention of the Allies toward Russia is being observed, it is understood that President Wilson and his advisers now are wiling to agree with Britain and zE zE,rance as to ways and means for aid 7fIg the Czecho SIovaks in their plans for combating the enroachments of the Bolsh eT4fkistagd, incidentally, the plotting of the Gefnans.
 A few months ago there was hope in this part of the world that the people of Russia would be able o realize. how sl1amefutln they had been betrayed by the. Bolsh evlki. The . United States is just as anxious to aid Russia today as it was a year ago. But it has such a clear comprehension of the perf1dy of Lenine and .Trotzky, that it is ready to concede that steps must be taken 0 avert he break up of the land where the Czar formerly ruled
 With the .Czecho- -slovaks4 holding the positions they have taken and their