Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-17
HITCHCOCK BACKS
MOVES IN RUSSIA
j. S. Forces There to BaIk the
Huns.
ACTED TO BLOCK GERMANS
Senator Replies to Attack on Inter
vention PoIicy-Calls Attitude OF
Allied Operations Friendly to
the Russian People.

Washington, Jan. 10.-Operations In
Russia by the United States ana lts
allies are friendly and not hostile 10
the Russian people, although in oppo-
sition to German bolshevis forces
Chairman Hitchcock of the senate Tor
eign relations committee SAID III ah
address, replying to the recent demand
of Senator Johnson of California LOT
an official statement of the American
policy in Russia.
"There is no Russia" he declared.
"What was Russia is a vast disorgan-
lied aggregation of local governments.
"Lenine and TrotZky have the great
cities of PetrOgrad, Moscow and some
others and thus have the center or the
wrecked nation, but it is the most I'M
happy, most lawless, brutal and most
bloody. Other parts of Russia are
comparatively calm and orderly.
consuIts With State Department.
Senator Hitchcock prepared his ad-
dress after consulting with Acting Sec
rotary Polk at the state department.
After pointing out that seizure OF the
ports of VladivOstOk, Murmansk and
Archangel was proposed by the SUI
preme war council to prevent Germany
from obtaining valuable stores, he
said:
'In each case it was done as y meas
ure of war against Germany and not
against Russia. In each case the attl-
tUde of the Russian people at the ports
named and in the neighborhood was
friendly and remains so today. In
each case the local Russian govern
ment exists and functions in co-Opera-
ton with the American and allied SOL
diers.
Regarding the American operations
In russia Senator Hitchcock gave the
following details, in specific reply to
Senator JOhnson's recent request for
information
I'VE sent about 10000 men to Vladi-
vostok, the Pacific port, and about o.
600 to Archangel the arctic port in
European Russia, and Murmansk, the
port which leads to the Thurman coast.
Those landing at VladivoStOk are
for the most part still there or in that
neighbOrhOOd Those landing ut Arch
angel and across the White sea at
NIurmansk, while still holding those
ports in connection with the British
and French troops, have penetrated
short distance inland, in each case
probably about 100 miles, as meas
ure of protection for their bases"
Reign of Terror Is Cited.
Citing the bolShevik reign of terror
and the movement to protect the
Czecho-Slovaks in Russia, Senator
Hitchcock said the bOlsheviki, inspired
by German agents and with German
troops and prisoners, attempted lin
most diSgraceful bad faith" to capture
the Czecho-SlovakS. With Russian al
lies, Senator Hitchcock said, the
CzechS have maintained battle front
inland nearly 5000 miles.
Senator Hitchcock said that the
Thurman coast and harbor were seized
when it was learned the Germans had
10000 men headed for that district,
with plans to establish q submarine
base at Murmans. Archangel, too, was
held, he said, to prevent it's becoming
q German base.
After Senator Hitchcock spoke Sen
ator Johnson renewed his demand for
an official statement from the admins
tration regarding it's plans in Russia
and why American troops are being
kept there. Senator Borah supported
the California senator's demand when
the latter pointed out that Senator
Hitchcock disclaimed speaking official
~ for the administration.
''What possible objection can there
be-" asked Senator Johnson, ito the
governments saying why we're there,
what it intends TO do and what it ex-
poets to accomplish? Why is it the
government cannot tell us why we're
there what we intend to do and what
we propose to accomplish"
Americans Burn Village.
Archangel, Jan. 10.-Activities were
renewed by the American and allied
forces on the Kadish front. Accord
ing to incomplete reports to headquar-
ters here the Americans burned the
village of Kadish, retired from it and
then went forward and reoccupied
the ruins.