The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-07
BRITAIN AWAITS
 ILLUMINATION OF
 BOLSHEV|ST ACIS

 ing the policy of the Entente Pow CTS toward Russia have failed to elicit very definite information as to British policy toward the land of the Bolshevik. The British press is insistent that Russia must be helped economically, although it confesses utter lack of information as to the attitude of the Entente Powers toward the existing govern ment in Soviet Russia
 Replying to question from Lieu tenant Colonel Lord Cavendish- Ben tinck as to the actual conditions in soviet Russia, Arthur J. Balfour, the foreign secretary, said: "The in- formation at the disposal of His Majesty's government is to the eff feet that the deliberate policy of the Bolshevist government is one of ex- termination, by starvation, murder, and wholesale execution of all part ies which do not support their regime"
 Lord Cavendish- Bentinck then asked: Has the government any alternative to the present policy, which apparently has no effect but to strengthen the power of the Bol- shevist government?"
 Mir. Balfour responded he was not aware that anything the British gov ernment has done, or has attempted to do, has strengthened the Bol- shevist government He also said he did not understand what his in- terrogator meant by an "alternative policy.
 Russia's plight was brought be- fore the House of Commons again the same day through a discussion of the future of Armenia, when Mir. Ponsonby, a labor member, in sisted that Turkish rule over non- Ottoman races must be terminated, and asked for clear statement on the policy of the British government toward Russia. He urged that the British public should be advised whether state of war exists be- tween the Entente Powers and Rus sia; what the British expedition in North Russia is doing; what the in tentions of Great Britain are to- ward the Bolshevist government, and whether additional reinforce ments are being sent to Archangel.
 Lord Robert Cecil, then under secretary for foreign affairs, re- piled that it was impossible to give any pledges as to what the military position was, or may be in Russia, without consultations with those re- sponsible for military affairs. He said, however, the government is not inclined to entangle the coun- try, at the close of the great war, in serious military operations. The speaker then commented upon the labor members failure to express condemnation of the Outrageous proceedings of the so-called Russian government"
 ''It is not only that governments offenses against humanity which cannot be forgotten" said Lord Robert Cecil, "but it has committed offenses against this country which, if committed by any ordinary civil ized government, would have more than justified this country in seek ing redress at arms. A British naval officer has been killed while pro- tecting building belonging to the British government. Other British subjects have been subjected to horrible hardships, and crimes have been committed which stagger hu- manity. While primarily we ought to consider the interests and desires of the people, it is right to say that the Bolshevist government, as such, is entitled to no consideration what ever at the hands of the British government.