The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-19
BRITAIN TO STOP AID ID RUSSIANS Lloyd George Admits Agree rnent With France to Go No Further in Ad-
 venture.

London, Nov. 19-(Associated Press)-Preraier Lloyd George, speak ing in the House of Commons re- gently during the course of the de- bate on Russia, dwelt upon the com p1exity of the Russian problem.
 Tn whichever direction we go,' he said, i've are marching into fog"
 The Premier was asked concerning the testimony given before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by
 William c. Bullitt, recently attached to the American Peace Commission, n, and replied:
 T never heard of Bullitt until he returned from Russia. I never knew of his existence until one day Presi- dent Wilson said to me: There is a young fellow returned from Russia who might be able to give you inter esting views about Russia but he added that I was not to attach too much importance tc him.
 After declaring that Bu1litt had "betrayed the confidence of MT. Lloyd Georges secretary, Sir Philip Kerr, and stating that his secretary saw hundreds of people for him, including Bulitt, and had never referred to Bullitt, the Premier continued:
 ''Bullitt got hold of documents in the office of the American delega ton in Paris and published them. No public man in England would have soiled his fingers by using evidence of that kind"
 Reverting to the general question of Russia, the Premier referred to the operations of Admiral Kolchak, and emphasized the enormous dis tances, and the difficulty of England helping Kolchak.
 There are countries" he declared 'in a much better position to help kolchak than we. These powers are next door. They are in the alliance I do not wish to be considered as criticising them, but if there has been failure it is not our failure.''
 Pointing out that nobody knew what Central Russia wanted and that any attacks upon Bolshevism carried beyond a certain point had failed, the Premier declared that with Great Britatn's own burdens it was quite impossible to go financing civil war in Russia indefinitely.
 Our own country is our first con- cern," he said, "and there is no surel road to Bolshevism at home thar financial bankruptcy. We have con. tributed more to anti-Bo1shevist ele- ments in Russia than France, Japar and America put together. I boas of that because it was an obligation of honor for us.''
 MT. Lloyd George admitted the ac. curacy of the French press report that France and England were 1T agreement to withhold further SUD- plies from Russia, because, as he ex plafned, 1t was impossible further tc burden the French taxpayer.
 Dilating upon the almost insuper- able difficulties of formulating a pol icy when on one side there were anti. Bolshevilki like Ko1chak and Denni- kin fighting to reknit and reunite powerful Russia, and on the other side border States equally anti-Bolshevist seeking their own independence, an6 therefore the disintegration of Russia, the Premier said:
 ''We are faced by three claims fol intervention. The first and second are Russia and Armenia, and those opposing intervention in Russia advo- cate intervention in Armenia. Ar. meia is a good cause, and Britain i. one land able to restore a sem blance of justice and good government. Blu can we do all these things, consider. ing our great burdens?
 '"The third case is the Baltic prov. inces, where the Germans must bt cleared out or the peace of Europe is unsafe.
 Will any wise man advise us tc undertake the terrible responsibilit5 of restoring order in a country as large as Russia, where no countr, ever intervened without landing itse11 into disaster? I cannot undertake such responsibility"
 The Premier concluded by declar. ing that he did not fear Bo1shevisn in any well-governed land, but dread. ed a wild adventure into lands whose condition was unknown and wher, nothing but catastrophe had awaitee every empire and every army tha had ever made it.
 A. J. Balfour, Lord President o. the Council, pointed out that while there was much criticism of the Government for lack of a c1ear-cu policy on Russia, none of the critic. i had even suggested a clear-cut polio, : of his own.
 Turning to other questions he sait
 it was a profound misfortune for tht i peoples of the Near East that tht j PeacS COnIerenCe nad 1d1ed to settle
 their future, but it was because, of thu : fact that, until America had gfSer i the clear lead as to her policy, it wa ! quite impossible that the common policy of all the associated powers 1 of which America was the most i'm l portant, could be submitted in clea1 : outline to the House ] Mir. Balfour declined to believe tha ] Turkey could be wiped off the map i Turkey had a great historic past, ant l if all that was professed with regart 1 to self-determination was to find ex ! republication, in Turkey as with othe]
 reoples, it was as certain that after l peace there would be a Turkish Elm 1 pire as it was uncertain at the pres i ent moment what the precise bound. 1 of that empire would be.