Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-12
TROOPS THREATEN TO SINK TRANSPORT
KIN OF FORMER
CZAR APPEALS
FOR ALLIED AID
Help Needed to Save
Russia = Is Disap-
pointed in Paris.

! Paris. March 12-Former Grand
Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, who
arrived in Paris recently from the
Crimea, told the Associated Press
today that unless armed allied in
I tervention in RUSSIA began at once
/ the situation in Russia would be-
come so hopelessly desperate that
it would take years, perhaps dec
AIDES, to restore a semblance of or
| der and bring about peace in east
ern Europe. The former grand
duke, who is a brother-in-law of
| the former emperor, continued:
81 do not ask the allies to fight
| for us. We merely ask them to
keep order in the territories wrest-
ed from Bolshevism by the govern
ments already fighting the Soviet
Il came here in January in an at
tempt to help my country as a pri-
vate citizen acquainted with the sit
uation in Russia | thought that
would find justice and sympathy at
the peace conference, but | have
been disappointed, as | found v:si-
BILE only personal intrigues, party
politics and national egotism."
Unable to See Wilson.
"I requested President Wilson to
receive me but he replied through
his secretary that he was too busy
with peace conference matters.
What matter can be more momen-
tous to the peace conference than
the Russian problem? | asked to be
allowed to go to England, but was
refused a passport. yet they receiv-
ed Kerensky. ] dare not request
permission to visit America, not
wishing to invite a rebuff"
Referring TO the proposed confer
ence on the Princes Islands the
grand duke said that the proposal
was a mistake as it gave the boil
sheviki a strong weapon TO WELD in
Russia over the covering popula-
tion. The bolsheviki are claiming,
the grand duke added, that the al
lied governments have recognized
them because they feared the boil
sheviki.
"On January 25," the grand duke
continued, seven days after the
Princes Island proposal, the boil
sheviki led out my two brothers
and two cousins from the fortress
of st. Peter and st. Paul, and shot
them without trial. They never
would have dared to do this unless
they had been sure of the moral
support afforded by the semi-recog-
milton by the peace conference.
Sees BOlsheVism League Devil.
Had President Wilson come out
strongly and surely with a repudia-
tion of and non-recognition of the
bolsheviki. it would have encourag-
ed the governments warning against
them. Bolshevism will be the devil
in the future league of nations"
The grand duke was somewhat
skeptical whether royalty was a
thing of the past. He then revealed
conditions in Russia, saying:
What we want from the allies is
a frank statement of whether they
intend to intervene in Russia or
not. or whether we have to look
elsewhere for salvation. Under their
state of mind the would-be ruling
classes in Russia probably will look
to Germany for help and the Ger
mans understand how to deal with
the bolsheviki.
taE Spartacan Move Blackmail.
at is my opinion that the Spar
tacan movement in Germany is kept
alive only as a means of blackmail
against the allies When the prelim-
mary peace is signed, and Germany
has used the Spartacans to the ut
most to blackmail the entente into
sending food and granting nerciful
conditions of peace. when Sparta
cism has served its purpose, it will
disappear