The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-14
TUESDAY, OCTOBER IA, 1919.
ANOTHER WAR BREWING.

1t is disconcerting to think that an
other war by rapacious Imperialism is
near but the danger of it must be ad
mitted; and the scene will be in Rus
STA. The aggressors will be imperial
istic Germans and greedy japanese, the
first aiming at the western outlet for
all Russian commerce, Riga on an arm
of the Baltic sea, and the latter for the
great stretches of Siberia.
Riga has recently been captured by
German army under Field Marshal
Won der Goltz and the forces of 1.-THE
West Russian Government composed
of Baltic German barons, the most re-
dictionary class in old Russia. Of this
capture the New York Times says:
We shall be fortunate if the history
of the twenty first century does not say
that the German attack on Riga was
the beginning of the second part of the
great war whose first phase was ended
with the armistice of November, 1918
Certainly it is the beginning of a new
German war for supremacy, an attempt
to seize the hegemony of Europe for
that Prussian landholding aristoeracy
| which is dominated by medieval ideals
of aristocratic mlitarism and infamed
by fanatical religion. Won Der Goltz Is
army is differed by the sort of men who
made Germany hated the world over:
| it is fighting for the moment in the in
| terest chiefly of the land-owning nobil
/ al. .aya
will bring an end to what feeble be
ginnings of moderation, sanity, and Ii
beralism have appeared in Germany
and will give Northeastern Europe t.
the dominion of the iron cross.
The peace conference has demanded
the withdrawal of this German army
from western Russia by the German
government but it first declared that or
ders had been sent to Won der GoltZ t
withdraw and then it reported that hi
army was no longer an organized fore
but bodies of men which found condi
tions agreeable and refused to leav
the country. Unfortunately the peac
I conference has no league of nations t
? enforce its demands and these danger
J; Gus forces continue to menace the Lett
o ish government and the peace of tn
Q world.
4 The hand of Japan is shown in il
hostility to the American troops assist
n ing in guarding the railroad throug
IS Siberia, and whose only purpose is
y maintain a Russian government durin
!, the disturbed period of revolution. AZ
miral Kolshak, champion of an all Ru
sian government, announces that tt
Czecho- Slovak forces are soon to will
draw from vital stretch of the Tran
= Siberian railroad and he would prefC
to have additional American forces sci
to guard it. If American troops are M
$ available he must call on the Japanes
r The Japanese military party is d
$ clared to be anxious to increase i
v hold on Siberia and the well informe
y in Washington are certain that if Il
n japanese extend their operations in
!, IBERIA they will demand substantial cor
y pensation in the way of economic ar
:. other concessions, thus securing a pc
manent hold. Japan wants more tie
ritory and there is productive and va
I liable territory in Siberia.
With German power established
western Russia and japanese in caste
Russia the developent of strong and a
gressive monarchies would speedily f,
low. And that would mean war, W
for conquest and military suprema