New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
The Week Abroad
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be thc bulletins.
As to the Dorpat conference, which
may herald the conclusion Of peace be-
tween the Baltic states and the Boil
sheviki, the British Liberal press fore
told two months ago that this could be
the only result of an ALL. policy
which. while ignoring or handicapping
the "allogenous" fringe states, gave
its support to the centralist Cossack
chief Denikine and the impossible Ko'-
chak The Baltic countries--this must
be emphasiZcd-are not Bolsheviki in
fact or sympathy-far from it; they
are democratic peasant states with a
rising bourgeoisie and vehement ma
tionalistic consciousness. They now
seek peace with the Bolshcviki not be-
cause they agree with or condone
Lenine. but because they fail to see
why they should be catspaws for q
Czaristic restoration whose first meas
ure on achieving success would be to
abolish the independence Of the non
Russian border states. As General
Laidoner, in command of the Esthonian
army. said TO the correspondent of the
"Berlingske Tidende," Of Copenhagen:
"The Esthonian peasant soldier cannon
understand why he should fight for
Kolchak, who does not recognize Es-
thonian indepe ndence, against Lenine.
who does"
In the mean time, the Allied com
mission to supervise German evacua-
tion in the Ba,tic has arrived in
Konigsberg and Is now In touch with
Colonel Bermont. commander of the
West Russian army, which Is. In the
main, the designation in usum De lphni
Of tho old German.Balt Landeswehr
1t is to be hoped that the commission
will have more luck than the British
admiral who not long ago addressed
note to General Bermont, commander
OF the German troops" and had il re-
turned unopened with the remark pen
cilled across the envelope that there
is 10 General Bermont and there are
no German troops"
These West Russians are altogether
highly interesting branch of the grea
Slaponc race. On October Haase. leader
OF the German Independent Socialists
intended to deliver speech in the Ma
tlonal Assembly, in which he was ex-
pccted to make certain revelations about
the West Russian government. On his
way to the Assembly he was shot and
mortally wounded by an Austrian named
Noss.
Next day, however, "Freiheit," organ
of the Independents, printed q story
about negotiations conducted in Berlin
by General Biskupski, President of the
West Russian government, in regard
to loan of 30O,O00,000 marks. Ac-
cordng to the "Frciheit," Biskupski had
actually signed a contract with the house
OF J. =. Morgan, which undertook 10 fur
nlsh the 300,000,000 marks at SIS per
cent for term of ten years. By way
OF security the house of Morgan was to
obtain a mortgage on all properties of
any description whatever, presently held
or to be acquired in the future, of the
Went Russian government The docu-
ment, the "Freiheit" says, was signed
by J. P. Morgan and President w
Bskupsk.
It appears, however. that this CON
tract was never executed, for the "Frei-
heit' remarks, rather obscurely: After
the conclusion of this agreement the
West Russian government soon found
itself disappointed in it's expectations
1t appeared that General Biskupski had
addressed himself to the wrong party. ="
As previously announced, Admira,
kolchak has evacuated Omsk II NAV
be that the step was prompted by tAe
decision Of the British government 70
withhold subsidies. But it seems that
the military situation also has something
to do with the Admiral's eastward trim
1t Is reported that four OF his rerin,ents
have recently surrendered in body. af
ter having, in accordance with Russian
etiquette, shot their officers previously