New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
100000 Troops
Asked for War
On Bolsheviki
Former Head of AlI-Russiu
Government Would Put
Red" Menace to Sword
Immediate Action Urged
kolchak Regime Dangerous,
Says Nicholai Aventieff,
III ere for Conferences

"Civilization Will have to fight Boil
shevism some time. Four divisions of
we'll equipped troops could crush it
now while it still is concentrated in
Russia. Let the contagion spread to
other lands and millions of lives will
fall sacrifice to the blight"
This statement was made yesterday
by Nicholai Aventieff. former president
of the all-Russia Provisional Gov
eminent at Omsk, which was over
Kolchak. NJ. Aventietf arrived at the
Majestic Hotel yesterday with three
former members of his administration.
NJ. Avxentieff, forty years old but
looking fifty, because of twenty
years in Russian politics and consc-
Quently several in Siberia and other
PRISONS" says:
"The Leninism and Trotzkyism of
Russia is more subtle than Teutonism
at its worst, and consequently much
more difficult to stitle.'
There is just one way to end Boil
shevism," he says. "That is to send
troops and put it to the sword. One
hundred thousand well-equipped SOL
diers would be enough. l know a war
in Russia is not popular; much blood
has been split. Nevertheless, if nothing
is done now, Bolshevism will spread
its tentacles throughout Europe and as
far as America and only the greatest
sacrifice in blood and treasure will call
it's halt"
Council Dispersed by Lenine
NJ. Aventief was Minister of the
interior in the Kerensky Cabinet Fol
lowing the fall of the Kerensky regime
he organized the Council of the Re
public, an Bolshevik body, of
which he was made president. The
council was dispersed by the follow
ers Of Lenine and its members fed
only to meet in Moscow and organize
the Committee for the Country's Sal
walton, of which NJ. Aventieff was the
head.
He was imprisoned by Lenine, but
when, three months later, the Bolshe
visits granted amnesty to political pris
oners in order to placate the populace
he gained lis freedom, and soon or
gained the Union for the Resurrec
tior of Russia, with headquarters il
Moscow.
Last July he fled from Moscow ant
rode LOO miles across she plains ant
marshes to Siberia, where the Czecho
Slovaks had begun their fight agains
the Bolsheviki. Necessity required
that he leave his sixteen year ole
daughter in Moscow.
II have not seen her SINCE" he sale
yesterday. "She is now the property
of the Bolsheviki."
Attacks kolchak Regime
Last September representatives O.
the local governments of Siberia, Sa
mara, Turkestan, Bashkir and Other
provinces, together with the repre-
sentatives of the municipalities of al
Russia, met at Ufa, in the Ural dis
trict, and set up the All-Russia pro
visional government, with NJ. Aventief
at the head. The work of fighting the
Bolshevik continued until the couI
detat of Kolchak, who had been Min
lister of War in Aventief's govern
ment.
"The coup d'etat at Omsk." said NJ
Aventieff, "was a change toward re
action 1t was made by reactionar,
officers and democratic politica
groups. The government of Kolchal
does not represent the majority Of thu
people There is nothing more dan
gerous for Russia than such a coul
d'etat, for the change may force par
Of the population, fearing a return to
imperialism, into the arms of Boil
shevlsm.'