Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
Actual Military Interven.
ton Waits Now Only on
/ Political Agreements
EXPEDITION r E A d Y
Entry May Be in Siberia or on
a Murman Coast-Seek to
Block Germans
special Cable 10 Evening Public Ledger


sW Paris, July 10.
ss# Actual military intervention in Rus
Ma will follow quickly upon political
4 agreement by the Allies that 1t should
y he Undertaken and agreements as to
the desired objects. There will be
y no delay in organizing the expedition
ary force, for it is all in readiness now
n anticipation of the word to go.
There are two phases to the ques'
Non. One is the much-talked-of in
& tervention by way of Siberia to pro-
vide a nucleus for Allied troops,
s Around which the Russians themselves
4, may reorganiZe to fight he Germans
= and get rid of the Bolsheviki. But no
lass Interesting and significant is the
extreme likelihood of sending Allied
Troops to the Murman coast to pre-.
vent the Germans from getting the
Arctic port of st. Catherine between
the White Sea and the North.
III This is Finnish territory, and Ger
man operations in Finland with the
connivance of the reactionary element
IN that country are daily becoming
more menacing. The enemy's purpose
4 b to get not only st. Catherine on the
iNurmarl coast, but Archangel itself
Z would give. the enemy n new sub
marine base and cut off all communi.
cation by the Arctic between Russia
and the allies .,
~ Natives Appeal TO Allies
N The people of northern Finland, who
ere not pro-German, have already
: asked the Allies to save them from
fenemy invasion and to prevent the
capture of the st. Catherine port; so
no question is involved in the Arctic
= phase Of intervention as to what the
desire of the native population may be
Furthermore. preparations have been
made for Murman coast expedition
participated in by all the Allies. so
there can be no doubt in any quarter
Is to the political safety of the enter
prise for the country to be rescued
from further German invasion.
The most significant fact concerning
the Arctic Ocean phase is the permit
ted publication in Paris of a dispatch
from Copenhagen that already supplies
from the United States have arrived
on the Murman coast
Albert Thomas issued an urgent ap-
peal In behalf of the Socialists of France
and Russia to the Allies to intervene
In Russia Immediately. He takes the
assassination of Count NIirbach as a
text. and not only justities but praises
the killing of the Ambassador at Mos
COW.
IF the Brest-L.tovsiS treaty had been
recognized by the Russian people" he
says. "or even IL Germany had respected
the terms of that treaty. the killing of
/ 4irbaCh would have been difficult to
justify. But instead, Germany imposes
= regime of brutality. In the assassina-
ton. violence responds to violence. and
that Is in orde.. The men who killed
Mirbach acted in conformity with the
rights of mankind. 1t is only remark
able that the act was not performed
sooner / interpret the assassination as
proof that there are in Russia strong
men determined to save the country
from German domination and to save
the revolution.
Time Now For Allies to Act
IF formerly the Allies could justify
their own inactivity in Russia by the
Inactivity of the Russians themselves
they can do SO no longer. Russia is
acting, and now the Allies should act
with her.
.'The consequences of the assassina-
ton are easy to foresee. The Germans
vii, more aggressively and openly push
for domination. Occupation of Moscow
and Petrograd may come. All that is
in the immensely Of Russia as Napoleon
did. Guerrilla warfare in the Ukraine
will spread to the rest of the country
and the German troops will be cut off.
But this fighting by the Russians
themselves Is not sufficient. If proof
is thus given to the Entente that Rus.
sia still considers herself with the AL
lies against the Germans and that 1,
10 her will to re-establlsh an eastern
front, the Entente can no longer post
pone a response to the appeal
But. above all, the Allies must fix
clearly the conditions of intervention.
President Wilson has declared himself
z for a regime of democracy and liberty
in Russia. No intervention that might
have as hidden object the re-establish-
ment of former Russian conditions of
force and domination could have Mr..
Wilson's support.
But having decided on the character
Of Intervention satisfactory TO Mr.. Will
son and ourselves. having determined
the composition of the expeditionary
troops. having agreed that Intervention
is only, TO drive out the Germans and
re-establish an eastern front, and not
to interfere in Russian interior politics
we should act quickly. Help Russia
now" ns'