Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-13
finish OF The BOLSHEVIKI
Looks Like German Regime Is Near
End.
LEEINE and TROTzKY ON TIE RUN
Great czeeho- -Slovak Army is Now
tho RalIyins Point Of All Russians
Who Seek Real Political lndepen-

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the Bolsheviki was about through ir
Russia. The most striking evidence
Of this Is that Lenine and Trotzky
are both lodging bombs, and intima.
tion that one or both OF them are
likely to depend on the Germans tC
protect them from their own people.
When I.cnine called on Hclfferich
the new German ambassador at Mos
cow. according to n Swedish press re-
port reaching the state department
today, the streets leading to the en-
bassy were closed and lined with the
German troops. who. according TO the
last previous bulletin from the chaotic
zone had been denied permission 10
come TO Moscow. except as legation
guards.
Officially this government Is taking
no stand against the Bolshcviki or
any other Russian faction, but the
Bolshrviki evidently have no idea
that this tolerance should be mutual.
1t has just been announced that the
reason Ambassador Francis and the
other Allied diplomats left Nologda
was because they were prevented
from communicating with their re-
spective governments. Ambassador
Francis has been saying that he was
out of communication with the United
States for weeks, but not until today
did 1t appear that the denial Of the
use of the cables and telegraphs was
the cause of the northern exodus.
Comment is Declined.
The state department would not
say anything as to the likelihood OF
Allied forces now being sent to ST.
IBERIA, as well rs those already at
Murmansk finding themselves the OBJ
jects OF Bolshcviki hostility, but the
question cannot but he suggested to
every official mind.
Ambassador Francis before he left
Vologda made a statement TO the
Russian people. Presumably il was
an explanation OF why he had to take
his departure, but no word Of it has
come over the cables. The state de-
partment has TO guess like the rest of
us at the announcement of its repre-
sentative in Russia.
The extremist interference with the
diplomatic correspondence has gone
beyond the simple withdrawal Of wire
service. Messages from France have
come in hashcd and jumbled out Of all
sense. This was at first attributed To
the ordinary hazards OF code tele-
graphing in the hands of incompetent
operators. but the impression Is now
that it was the result Of monkeyish
malice. - - -
With the English they have gone
even further than with US. All tclc-
graphic communication between Rus
sia and England has been suspended
by the Bolshcviki.
Column is Gathering.
The Allied column is already be-
ginning to gather at Nladivostok. The
first detachment of British troops has
arrived from Hongkong. II numbers
something less than n thousand. There
arc already more marines and blue
jackets than this from the British
naval vessels in the harbor.
Rnmor Is persistent that American
troops have also landed, but this Is
rmphatically denied. American ma
rincs. whose uniform differs from
that OF the soldiers only by being n
darker shade Of khaki, have probably
been mistaken for army forces.
French troops from Cochin, China.
have probably reached the Siberian
port by this time. and a couple of
thousand Italians who were subjects
of Austria when the war began but
who arc now fighting companions OF
Czecho- Slovaks. will represent Italy's
is assumed to he already on the job.
Gen. March Is expected to make an
announcement about the American
contingent, who Is to command 1t and
what units 1t will comprise tomor-
row, but it will be some time before
we get the political details Of the
expedition.
The advices from the other sphere
OF Allied activity, the Murmansk
coast, indicate that there Is probably
the centre from which the new east
ern front will develop ultimately.
The Bolsheviki is out Of power there
about. and the people are reported to
have become enthusiastically pro-
Ally. 1t has been stated that If the
bulk Of the old Russian army is as
sured of equipment and regular pay,
1t will not be difficult to gather
enough Of them to constitute that
line. 1t was the failure to pay the
troops as well as the disorganization
accomplished by the German propa-
ganda, that melted that ar1nv.
Germans Arc Alarmed.
The prospect Is alarming to the
Germans. The Czecho- Slovak move
ment fills the columns Of the news
papers. The Post puts 1t thus. ac-
cording to a dispatch from Berne re-
ceived today:
There Is in this movement a burst
OF enthusiasm that makes 1t particu-
larry dangerous. These people who.
after four years, recommence to fight
are not mere vulgar traitors, they are
idealists, who are animated with the
conviction Of fighting for a national
idea. This explains the force Of at
traction that they are exercising. The
opposition of the Czecho- Slovaks Is, to
say, the nucleus around which vari-
GUS dissimilar elements come and
group themselves. The Cossacks have
rallied around them They are sup
plying them with cavalry. The Social
Revolutionists support them by stir
ring up trouble in conquered regions.
Japan is furnishing them with arms
and ammunition.