The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-20
Big Force to Be Maintained
There This Year, Says
Churchill
RUSSIA MUST @
SAVE HERSELF
No Intention on Britain s Part to Send
Large Army to Russian Territory
To Make it Impossible for Germany
to Make War Again.

LONDON, Feb. 20.-The British govern
ment intends to maintain IAN army Of
SOC 900 men during 1919. Col. Winston
Spencer Churchill, secretary of state for
war, announced at meeting here yester-
day. Est3s;:
1t will be necessary to keep a strong,
welldisciplined British army on the Rhine
for some time to come, he declared. There
is no expectation that the army Of .oc-
cupation in Germany can be maintained
on any other basis this year than the
compulsory basis, he said, but for. the
rest the government is replacing the con
scripted men on far distant foreign sta
tons with volunteers.
| The whole effectiveness of 1.-THE, league
of nations depends upon the allies hav'
ing a reasonably trustworthy military
fosce in close proximity to Germany, Col
Churchill said
I'VE are going TO take measures, he
added, Ito make it physically; impOsslblC
| for Germany to begin war for revenge
at any rate in our lifetime. We are go
mr. to take few trustworthy persons
we'll provided with what President Vii
son would call instrumentalities, to keeI
watch by the Rhine and to make Ger
many pay reparation for the damage she
has done
There is no intention OF sending a larg
or British force to Russia, Col. Churchill
said If Russia is to be saved, he added
it must be by her own -eNeFtiop, -
Eve are going to take measures which
viii make it physically. impossible fol
H Germany to begin a war OF revenge, al
any rate during our lifetime. We arr
going to ask Germany to agreeato those
measures and help us carry them out
Il And after she has agreed, we are golnG
to stand by and see that she does carry
them out, not only in the letter. but II
the spirit.
There is another reason why we re
qure to maintain an army in Germany
for some time longer We are going Il
make Germany pay what is rightful anC
possible in reparation of the damage sh
az done. s@
Both to prevent a renewal of the war
by effectualy disarmng Germany ant
t. secure reparation, on which we ar
determined, it is necessary 10 malntar
a strong, compact well-disciplined arm,
on the Rhine for some time TO come.
That army cannot be maintained o.
the voluntary basis. We are raising vo
unteers by every means in our power
as quickly as we can, but the first us
We Shall make of these volunteers is t
relieve the men maintained in India an
other far distant stations at present b
compulsion, and let them come home. "
AZ Cf or,
i ,tng and maintaining an army on I'll
4 Rhine on any other basis in the presei
4 year than on the compulsory basis.
"Nyc are not keeping large forces
4 fCh, in Russia; we have no intention
sending large British armies to fight
Ru sia Ii Russia Is to be saved she mu
be saved by Russia. 1t must be by Ru
sian manhood, Russian courage, Russis
virtue, that the rescue and regeneratiC
A 81 this once mighty nation, this famo
4 branch OF the European family, can aloi
n he achieved
The aid which we can give to tho
\ Russian armies who were called into {
4 field originally during the German wa
20 some extent by their own inspiratio
and who are now engaged in fghti
I against the foul baboonery OF Bolshevis
4 IAN be given by arms, munitions, equ
4 ment and technical services raised up
\ voluntary basis. But Russia must
is saved by Russian cxcrtion, apdl It mi
: be from the heart of the Russian peol
aud with strong arm that the conf
I against Bolshevism in Russia must
| mainly waged .4 ~
| Therefore, it IS an dntrdthful, II
lrious statement. to say, that it is nee
sary for rs 10 prolong the action of
military services because OF an entcrpr
which we have on foot in Russia,