New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Russian Mission
Asks Allies to Send
100000 Men at Once
Small Force, if Used Now,
Can Bring Bolshevik De-
feat in Six Months, Visit
ing Diplomats Tell British
By F. A. Wrray
Nesc York Tribune
E',fyoneu,, Ruraoa


European Bureau
LONDON. Jan. 10.-"lf, with the as
sistaIce Of the Russian Bolsheviki, the
Spartacus group seize power in Berlin
and spread the Bolshevik terror
throughout Germany. will the Allies
still believe in the policy of non-inter
ference in Russia and regard with
cquanimity the overflow of Bolshevism
throughout Europe?"
This was the question put by the
Russian delegation, which has just ar
rived in London, to enlist the active
aid cf the Allies in fighting Bolshe-
vism. The delegation. consisting of
two conservatives, Shebeko, former
Russian Ambassador to Vienna, and
Gourko, brother of General Gourko, ex
Councillor of State; two moderate So
cialists, Titoff and Food Controller
Constantin Krovopouskoff, of Odessa,
and one Liberal, Tretiakoff, ex-Min-
lister of State, and president of the
Moscow Bourse, has been wise enough
TO realize that public opinion in Eng
land, France and America has definitely
decided against unlimited commitments
IN Russia.
Will Interview Wilson
Therefore it has pitched its demands
in a minor key, basing them not only
upon Russian needs but upon the
ground of the necessity of protecting
the world against Bolshevism. which,
they assert, will, if unchecked, neu-
tralze any peace settlement.
Members of the delegation will go to
Paris next week in the hope of con-
varting President Wilson, as we'll as
the British and French statesmen now
consulting there.
| asked them to state the minimum
of their needs. They replied
"If the Allies find us 100000 troops
for a definite period not exceeding six
months, we will undertake to raise
combined army sufficient to overthrow
the Bolsheviki. We do not want Allied
troops as a nucleus for our army We
merely want them as a sort of frontier
guard to prevent the Bolsheviki from
advancing any further southwark and
preclude their smashing up the last
remains of Russian civilization as we'll
as saving the great agricultural dis
tricts
while we are making preparations
we have soldiers, and do not anticipate
trouble in obtaining supplies or diff
culIlSS Oh LTdHSppTl. VndC we are
asking for amounts to little more than
moral support.
In Interest of All Europe
! "We do not regard our demands as
selfish. but rather believe that we are
acting in the interests of all the Allies
20 save Europe from its greatest danger
"The Bolsheviki have no support ex-
cept from the poorest classes and Grim
~ = i k1 l..
upon murderous force and intimidation
Even their soldiers are kept in order
only by a kind of secret police force
composed mainly of Chinese and Grim
siuals.
\"The prisons are crowded with people
thrown into them without legal grounds
after examination by youths.
Frequently executions occur without
trial of any kind. The slightest yes
tige of political opposition is promptly
called counter revolution and it's par
tisans are forthwith exterminated.
"As soon as either Trotzky or Lenine
becomes strong enough to call the other
q counter revolutionist, then the weaker
OF the two will be executed
Industry at Standstill
Industry is now at standstill. Two
hundred million rubles of paper money
- HViiS PllitlSQ Odilys tuc ililduCldl
system has been destroyed, and condi-
tons are rapidly becoming such that
unless they are quickly rghted there
Is no possibility of Russia ever meeting
her obligations.
IN the north starvation is rampant,
and the population Of Petrograd has
been reduced thereby from 100000 to
100000.
The present Bolshevik army con-
s!sts Of about 500, 900 bayonets, but in
SIX months. with our Siberian armies
combined with those now organizing in
me south under General Bneikcn, we
rI vi be strong enough to defeat them
This must be done.
Remember that Bolshevism is the
enlld OF Germany. 1t was the German
government that brought it into exist
elce and fostered it. Now the roles
are reversed, ard it is Russian Bolshe-
v,sm which is producing a similar in
stitution in Germany"