The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-21
SOUTH RUSSIA TO HAVE OWN
 GOVERNMENT

LONDON. Jan. 21 (by Associated 'ress).-It is reported here that con ierences soon will be held in the south of Russia in which will participate representatives of the various entente powers. representatives of the Ukraine gov. rnment, the Don Cossacks, the Orenburg Cossacks and the provisional governments of Armenia and Georgia Their purpose will be to reach an un- derstandinig as to the creation of government in South Russia the Cau. casus and the Trans-Caucasus. with which the entente powers can cooper ate in restoring normal economic so- cial and political conditions.
 Although the Bolsheviki have many followers throughout the Ukraine, they never were predominant even in the shipbuilding cities of the Black sea Iii the Don region and in the Caucasus and Trans Caucasus their hold has been even slighter Cossacks of all sorts have been enemies of the Bolsheviki, as they are all landhold- CTS and unalteraby opposed to the domination of their districts by out siders.
 Many British naval and military of fiCers. as well as civil officials, have left London for the Black sea district since the signing of the armstce, and commercial interests also are sending representatives, to look the situation over preparatory to opening up the extensive oil and grain dis tricts
 Siberia, the Ukraine. Finland and the new government at Archangel shut Bolshevik Russia off entirely from it's ports, and the unfriendliness of the government in all these sec tons to the Moscow government un- der Lenine is daily increasing the strain on Soviet Russia. The new governments in these various sections which have refused to accept BOl- shevism are not as stable as the en- tente powers might wish. While they all express their desire to become a part of Russia should federation be- come possible under an acceptable central government, the political diff ferences in all the four sections named have been keen, and party quarrels and the ambition of rival leaders have frequently exceeded patriotism in the struggle for power
 Only about 10000, 900 inhabitants now remain under Bolshevik control. The total population of the Russian empire as it existed before the revo- lution was estimated at 1S0, ,000 ,O0O The great majority of this population is in the portion of Russia south of Bolshevik rule, which is far the rich est and most pOpulous portion of the former empire.
 Consequently developments in South Russia are watched with great eager ness by military anad naval men and diplomatists alike. A stable central S'''' ''iii'it tStdDlISHtu at hleN, 1 Odessa or Sebastopol. and recognized by the entente powers. would control the great majority of Russia's natural resources, especially if it gained con trol Of the Nolga and established com. municatiOn with the mineral deposits Of the trals and the grain fields of |. Siberia
 Such a government would naturally | he the key to Russia's political and l economic future. Northern Russia is ! sterile in contrast with the south Its ! lands are poor. Moscow and Petro. . grad industries dcrend entirely upon distant crnters for their raw material. The factories and industrial popula- tionE "i North Russia, or Soviet Rus. sia, are entirely within districts which can not feed themselves And therein lies the greatest inherent weakness of tn" Russian Bolshevik movement. It is based on theories which are re- pugnant to the districts which pro- duCe the foOdstuns and can starve Soviet Russia as sign of their dis approval.