The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-07-24
BRITISH WAR MINISTER'S WARNING AGAINST
BOLSHEVIk CONQUEST OF GERMANY
BY THE RIGHT HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL
1.-THE British Minister of War;

or all tyrannies history the Bolshe-
visit tyranny Is the worst. the most DE
structive and the most degrading. II Is
sheer humbug 10 pretend that 1t is not
far worse than German nilitarism'
The miserles Of the Russian people un-
der the Bolshevists far surpass any
thing they suffered even under the tSar'
The atrocities by Lcnine and TTotzky
are incomparably moro hidcous' on
larger scale and more numerous imam
any for which the kaiser umsclt Is
responsible. There Is this also 10 DC re-
mcmbered-whatcrer crimes the Ger
mans have committed. and We nave not
spared them in framing our Indictment
at any rate they stuck 70 their aiires'
They misled them. they exploited th'H''
tut they did not desert or betray thcHl.
1t may have been honor among thieves
hui that is better than dishonor among
murderers.
Leine and Trotzky had no sooner sriz-
ed on power than they dragged the noble
sian nation out of the path Of honor
and lct loose on us and our allies
whole drluCr of German achievements.
which burst on US IN March and April
Of last year. Every British and French
soldier killed last year was really RI ne
T. death BY Leninc and Trotzky. not n
fair war but by the treacherous d"ser-
tom IF an ally without parallel In Inc
history OF the world.
There are still Russian armies in the
f,ld under Admiral koltcEak and Gcli-
cral DcikeT, who have never wavcrcd ~
their faith and loyalty TO tho allied
cause. and who are fighting valiantly
and BY no means unsuccessfully against
that foul combination OF criminalitY and
arhmalism which constitutes the Bolshe-
visit regime. We are helping these men
within the limits which are assigned TO
US to the very best OF our ability.
We are helping them with arms and
munitions, with instructors and techni-
cal experts. who volunteered for serv-
ice. It would not De right for Us to send
our armies raised on a compulsory basis
to Russia II Russia il to DC saved II
must be by Russian manhood. But all
our hearts are with these men who are
true 10 the allied cause in their splen-
did struggle to restore the honor Of
united Russia and to rebuild on a mod
crn and democratic basis the freedom.
prosperity and happiness OF its trustful
end good-hearted people.
Russian ReEcf Force.
= class oc misguided or de-
generate people in this country and SOM
-. Who profess TO, take so LOFTY a
view that they cannot see any difference
between what they call rival Russian
factions. They would have you believe
that it ia six OF one and half-a-dozen OF
the other" Their idea Of a league Of
nations Is something which would be
impartial as between Bolshcvism on the
one hand. and civilization on the other
We arc still forced 10 distinguish be-
tween right and wrong loyalty and
treachery. health and disease. progress
and anarchy.
There is one part OF the world IN
which these distinctions which we are
bound TO draw can translate itself into
action. In the north OF Russia the Boil.
shcvists are continually attacking the
British troops we sent there during tho