New-York tribune., 1919-10-13
The Week Abroad
NcaU York Tribune Foreign Press Bureau

Lenine has arrested Trotzky and
Trotzky has arrested Lenine. If the
situation in Soviet Russia appeared
somewhat obscure during the last few
months or so, the above bit of infor-
nation, conveyed as rumor in a Co.
penhagen cable. hardly clears it up to
any considerable extent. 1t would
seem, however, that the continuous
successes OF the anti Bolshevik forces,
especially those Of General Denikine's
volunteer army, are promoting the fer
ment of dissatisfaction in the territory
ruled by the Reds. According to ad-
vices said TO have been received at the
State Department in Washington, gen.
eral discomfort at Moscow has ripened
into rather emphatic utterance in the
form of bomb which on September 25
last was hurled into a hall of the
Kremlin and killed ten persons, mos.'y
prominent Bolshcviks. "Bloody Jake"
Peters, the renowned head of the ter
rorist department of Lenine's Cabinet,
is said to be among the victims
The Poles have taken Dvinsk, one of
the most important fortresses in
Northwestern Russia. This report and
another telling about Denikine's ad-
vance toward Orel, on the Moscow
road, sent Russian stocks soaring on
the Paris exchange, where the pre-
vailing sentiment might be summed up
in the phrase Getting the Lenine boys
out of the Kremlin by Christmas" To
further this end the French govern
ment has assigned General Mangin,
late commander of the Eighth Army
to be adviser to General Denikine. The
British are already represented there
by General Holman, plus a fw million
dollars worth Of tanks, cannon. mu-
uitions and other equipment.
British correspondent, writes from
Rostov-on- -thc-Don, one of Denikine's
principal bases, about the growing un-
rest in 1ranscaucasia. 1t should be
explained here that the collapse Of the
Russian Empire has called into being
four states in the Caucasian territory
that of the Kuban Cossacks, now CO.
operating with Denkine; then Georgia;
Azerbaijan, q republic populated main
ly by Mahometan Tartars and Circas-
slams, and finally Armenia. A formal
alliance has been concluded between
Georgia and Azerbaijan, whose govern
ments, DR.. Williams states, ARE afraid
Of Bclshevism, but apparently still
more afraid of the growing power Of
Denikine's volunteer army" The
reason may be that while Moscow
is few thousand miles away,
Denikine's forces are only too close at
hand, with intentions manifest from
their occupation of broad strip Of
Georgian territory, whose evacuation
by the Georgians had been ordered by
the British command. There were late
ly indications that the Allies are try
ing new line in Russia by supporting
the independent nationalist "fringe
states" BE that as it may, in the
Baltic region, in the south and south
east the tendency seems to be to back
Denikine and his plan Of reuniting the
Russian Empire as against Ukrainians
and Caucasians. But even in the
northwest the Let's and Esths, i'm
placabie foes Of Bolshevist imperial
ism as they are, view with alarm the
movements of the Lianozov government
at Pskov, with General Yudenitch, of
prc-war pogrom fame, in charge of its
mercenary army.
Meanwhile the continued presence of
yon der Goltz's Baltic German army in
Lettonia is, in a sense, the joke of the
entire Russia situation---a grim joke,
to be sure, on the unfortunate Let's,
whose judgment on the comparative
merits of Czarism and Gernanism has
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