New Britain herald., 1918-07-12
Russia X World Problem.
(rom the New York Herald. )

(rom the New York Herald.) Events are marching rapidly in
 Russia and the necessity for prompt Allied action has become overpoWer- ing. "A Czedho- -S1ovak foree, made ~1p
 largely of prisoners who"had deserted from the Austrian army, has seived Vladivostok indicting defeat on the
 BolsheviBt troop there and at Irkutsk.
 At the latter center they are astride the trans Siberian railway and are in.
 a, position to prevent food and other
 supplies from passing into Central { Russia and also 10 hold.up the gaeAt { traffic Of the Volga on which the coun2 try so largely depends. Meanwhile the Germans are organizing strong i eorces ir~ Finland with the object of seizing the port of Kola and the ap- | proacheS of the Murman coast, and the putative Government of Finland
 is expected to aid and abet this move nent by a declaration of war against the Entente Allies. Simultaneously occurs the murder of the German ambassa dor at Moscow. which. de- spite the abject apology of Lenine. will almost certainly be regarded by. Wilhelmstrasse as a justification for.
 further aggression in Russia and as Kerensky has said, for the occupa- ! ton of Moscow.
 It is almost needless to recall what
 happened when the German envoy to j Pekin was slain by Boxers The
 Kaiser foamed and illuminated at the affront to his own majesty through 1 Germanys saCrOSanCt representative, and dire and drea dfuI things was done by Prussian troops in China-things 1 which aroused the protests of Ameri- ! can officers This frightfulness may and probably will be repeated in Moscow, although it may be expected that Lenine and Trotzl1y will be as ready to hand over that city to the enemy as they were compass the be trayal of the country as a whole at , Brest-Litovsk,
 Russ1se must be saved, and the : Czecho- -SlOVak force, estimated at
 more than one hundred thousand, may ! well serve as the nucleus of an Allied army, including Russians, Japanese 1 and Chinese as well $ American and other Allied troops, which will effect 1 the permanent security of Eastern 1 Russia and gradually pentrate the country, forming a rallying point for 1 all good and loyal Russians bent on | the salvation of their country. Rein forcements must also be landed at
 Kola to aidTsthe small force of Ameri-
 can, British and slr9ench marines pro
 testing the stores ofat war material l there. . 1 Germany's grip on Russia n1ustshe l broken. Bolshevism as well as nai1i@ | tarisn1 must go. and for these cruel 1 and oppressive forces must be sub- l stltuted freedom for all. Germany 1 wants to see complete anarchy in ! Russia so that she may step in and 1 establish ar autocracy even harsher E'than tha which previously existed asd so that the teenning millions of 1 the country which formerly were can non fodder for the Kaiser. That 1 must be prevented Russia must be 1 helped and her government taken out i of the hands of German agents and restored to patriotic Russians, repre- 1 sentative of the best elements of the
 country, such as the devoted and able men who brought about the revolution
 (F'rom the Wall Street JournaD
 Aeyer was the world confronted with