El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-03-20
Bitter Trades Against
America in Slav
Newspapers
DISGUSTED OVER
WOBBLY POLICY
Real Intervention To
Save Country Was
Expected

(5y Leased Wire to New Mexican.)
Vladivostok, Monday, Mar.
IL. (By The Associated Press)
Never since the landing here
of troops in August has there
been such widespread criticism
Of the United States. The
newspapers are full Of TRADES
calculated to SOW discord am
ong Americans, Russians and
Americans allies. Some news
papers Of Siberia, it appears,
have been subsidized and are
distinctly hostile to the United
States. Beginning with the
disappointment over the pass
iveness OF America Is interview
ton, the sentiment developed
into an outspoken hostility, in
many quarters; to the Princes
Islands proposition for a con-
ference of all Russian factions
with the allies, justly or other
wise credited to President
Wilson. Americans were in
stantly dubbed friends of the
bolsheviki and the idea was
quickly utilized by an unfriend-
~ press and accepted in the
political circles Of the Russians
generally.
Reinsurance by Major General Will
liam s. Graves, the military comman.
der here, regarding Americas non
pa%rtisanship, were offset In the Rus
sian mind, by definite charges of
pro-Bolshevism here and abroad, arts
ing from the refusal of the Americans
to cooperate with its military against
the alleged Bolsheviki in the Amur
district. The giving Of asylum to hte
COssacks in revolt recently was con-
strued in a similar way. This incident,
however, was the only one of a malig-
ming character to draw fire. Colonel
Henry d. Styer, who has been active
for the Americans in the Cossack con.
troversy, wrote to the newspapers an
explanation of the affair in which he
fully outlined the stand taken by
General Graves.
Other diatribes have been received
in silence and as a consequence the
loyal friends of the United States
among the Russians are wavering.
The silence and do-nothing policy OF
the Americans is plainly getting
on the nerves OF the Russians.
France and England have few troors
here and these are not actively en-.
gagged but their commissioners are
and counselling the Omsk
government with the result that
they are being credited with being
the best friends Of Russia. The
Japanese are regarded as having
rendered positive service in a mir
itary way. Only the Americans, to
whom the Russians looked for help
and sympathy are considered to have
failed, not because OF their failure
to send more troops, a hope which
has long since been abandoned. hut
for lack Of moral and material sur.
port such as other nations are CIV.
ing.
This is not solely the governments
view, though it naturally Graves
sympathy and aid. Among It's oEtic.
ais there are others who resent
The presence and passivity OF the
and the alleged encourage
nent by America of their enemy, the
1olsheviki. A representative OF the
Dmsk government is discussing the
situation, confessed himself and his
superiors mystified by the silence
If the United States on vital matters
II policy.
He also said there was a tendency
Judge severely acts Of expediency
md necessity which his government
lad taken. He said these acts were
lot fully understood. He cited the
'ecent arrests of members Of the
zemstvu. which he declared were
ustifiable and were made in &C.
;ordance with military law. The ar
ested men we're safely lodged in
all waiting for a civil trial on
OF reasonable conspiracy