Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-29
PEOPLE ARE SUPPORTING
REB|RTH OF RUSSIA
Powerful Cnifying Forces at Wor.;
for Great Nations Rcgcn-
Grafton.
SPIRIT OF TRUE PATRIOTISM
Many Millions OF Population tcprc-
scntCd i'm Organized Movement Co.
Operating With Allies Against Boil.
Shcvik Rule.
BS DIR. DAVID SOSt<ICE.
RUSSIAN Journalist WHO Has We-
Gently Returned to London
From pefrOcrnd
international News Bureau

Tile news coming from Siberia and
the east of Russia is decidedly hopeful.
In my last survey Of events | gave a
short history OF the formation of the
provisional government of autonomous
siberia. and Of tho insurrcction organ
lied by that government which freed
tho whole OF tho great siberian rail
way and practically the whole % 81
IBERIA from the Cicrnauo- Hclshcvik
forces In telegram dated June 80.
in which Colonel \lmazon. tho then
commander o; tho Russian troops. an
nounccd tho complete success nf his
operations i, Western and Central ST.
was cVcryWhcrc voluntarily supported
by s;hc pcople OF siberia. and the Boil
most exclusively. OF Germans ana Mag
var prisoners armed by them"
nave now before me various de
Crees and declarations issued by the
provisional government OF Siberia
which throw much light Oh the char
acter and intentions OF that authority.
| was much struck by the spirit OF in
tense patriotism which pcrmeatcS them
ALI The provisional government con
sisted nj the beginning exclusively OF
Socialists. This was 4 course dictated
10y necessity and not desire. The mid
dlc-class parties could not bc invited
to send their representatives to secret
and dangerous meetings, In their of
fetal declaration OF July :, scnt TO rep
provisional government states with re-
srot tho fact that temporarily no rep
rcsentatives of the middle classes had
taken part in the Duma and the min
istry. but chat they considered il alb
solutcly essential that all classes Of the
country should he represented in the
higher organs OF the state. and they
pledged themselves TO bring in bill
TO that effect in the Duma. which is
hcing now ConVoked. so that the union
OF all classes should become an ac-
compiished fact Meanwhile the: have
added some members OF the middle
class to tho numbers Of the ministers
Their Socialism has nothing TO do with
the EolsheNik policy OF destructive
dietntorship. II is an eyolu,ionary So
cialism to which many English Demo
Gratis would not hesitate TO lend their
names.
SUMMARY OF OBJECTS
OF NEW GOVERNMENT
The objects Of the provisional gov
eminent Of siberia have been summa-
rizcd under eight points. in their decla-
ration issued in Harbin early last
/. The establishment; Of order based
on law. guaranteeing inviolability OF
person and property
>. struggle against tho RolsheTikis in
the name Of the restoration OF the law
full power Of the .All-Russian Constitu-
ont Assembly.
:. Autonomous Siberia TO form in,c-
grail part OF federated republic OF
Russia.
:. The convocation Of an All-Siberi-
an onstltuent Assembly
.. An active struggle in union with
the allies against the Brcst-Litovsk
peace, with the objec, OF finally attain
ing universal democratic peace.
6 Restoration OF friendly relations
with the allied powers on the basis OF
the treaties and agreements which eN-
listed before The Bolshevik coup d'etat
. Resistance by all means to the
German penetration into Russian ter
ritory.
5. Organization of supplies 10 the
population o; Siberia with all neces-
sites for life and work.
BY other DEGREES the provisj onal gov
ornVcnt OF siberia mas abolished all
the laws, treaties and regulations OF
tie Bolshev!H regime and restored 10
force the laws which existed before the
oolshevik coup d'ctat Some English
newspa pers expressed the fear that the
BOlsheviks could not he expelled from
power. because sucn an act would mean
the restoration OF the land 10 private
owners. which Tho peasants would re-
SYST 10 the last A. matter OF tact;
however. practlcally TO private Land
ownership has ever existed in Siberia.
all the lands belonging either TO the
state or 10 peasant communities. L.
addition. ;nc provisional government OF
Siberia rcccuhrIacG tho land act passed
~ ne All Russian constituent Assem-
S'.. III its sri. sittiu. %, last January