Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-22
UNCLEOFLATE
CAR MAY FREE
RUSS OF REDS
Grand Duke Nicholas Arises
Like Ghost With
Avenging Sword

Russia with the battle cry OF = savior
would rally hundreds of thousands
of volunteers around his banner.
What Nicholas would do once he
had assumed power is different
story which skeptics who know him
we'll do not like to contemplate.
"Topple Lenine first--let the fu-
ture take care of ITSELF is the watch
word of the hour, and on that theory
the great war council at Stockholm
is working. Gathered there with the
grand duke are General Yudeniteh,
Premier Lianozoff Of the new anti
bolshevist government of northwest
Russia; Skorpadsky, former hoffman
of the Ukraine, and high British
naval men-for strong British CO.
operation on land and sea is assured.
Indeed, the repeated recent bomb
ing raids by British sea and airpianes
on Kronstadt served to whip the war
spirit of the anti-bolshevist leaders
to a high pitch, convincing them OF
the Sincerity of British collabora-
ton.
One Ugly Feature.
But there is an ugly feature to the
situation as far as Britain is con-
cerned, the impression which the
British military procedure is pro-
ducing at home. War Minister
Churchill announced unequivocally
the other day in response to the ma,
tion-wide clamor for withdrawal OF
the British forces from Russia that
everything that will hereafter be
done there in military way will be
merely to cover the British with.
drawal. Yet the people learn OF
fierce British bombing raids on
Kronstadt, where no British troops
are and of munitions and materials
pouring into Russia from Britain to
aid the various anti-bolshevist
armies.
The war office fastened today to
explain that Britain's policy toward
Russia's internal affairs" was un-
changed, that such aid as Britain is
now giving the anti-bolshevist
forces is being given under the de-
cision of the big four" at Paris, and
that the plans for the British with
drawal are unchanged.
At the same time the admiralty
was forced to admit the loss Of six
Britishers killed and II missing in
the attack on Kronstadt.
Setting the Stage.
To shrewd observers all this in
dicates that Britain's military and
naval men in the north are con-
cerned chiefly with setting the stage
for the overthrow by force of the
bolshevik government, with the view
to withdrawing at the moment the
success of the Russian anti-bolshev-
ist forces is assured, thus attaining
the dual object of making good the
promise to get out and of securing
the fall of Lenine and Trotzky.
British aid to the Esthonians is
limited to cooperation by aerial
forces, while into the port of Reval
on the Baltic are shipped daily huge
quantities of munitions for Kolchak
and Denekine and Yudetitch. A
considerable number of British tanks
are to be employed in the attack on
Petrograd, but whether they will be
manned by British crews is not
known.
Meanwhile Trotzky. the bolshe-
visit war chief, is not idle. He has
a not uncomfortable army ready,
not only to resist the coming on
slaught on the old capital, but also
to take the offensive. The towns
of Narva and Pskoff are in immedi-
ate danger of bolshevist lombard
ment. The bolsheviki have taken a
page from the book of German war
tactics and have supplied themselves
with innumerable machine guns
upon which they mainly rely as
defensive weapon. In a great meas
ure the contemplated movement on
Petrograd is aimed at relieving Ad-
miral Kolchaks nothern front,
which is hard pressed.
He has just been forced to evacu-
ate Tiumen on the Russo-Siberian
frontier. Within few days, if pres
ent indications are accurate Grand
Duke Nicholas will re-appear in the
Russian arena and new drama will
begin, the outcome of which will be
decisive one way or the other, not
only for the fate of Russia, but for
the trend of future events the world