Republican farmer., 1919-03-21
Newspapers Full of Tirades and Distortions of Facts
 to Sow Discord. RUSSIANS ARE
 READY LISTENERS Outspoken Hostility in Many Quarters to Princes
 Island Proposals.

YIadivostok March 1g-(By The
 Associated Press)-Never since the
 landing here of troops in August has 1 there been such widespread criticism l of the United States. The newspapers
 are full of tirades and ingenious dis | tortions of facts calculated to SOW ] cord among Americans, Russians and 1 Americas Allies. It is an unQues- ! toned fact that there is a systematic
 campaign. Some newspa pers of Si- beria 1t appears, have been subsidiz- ed and are distinctly hostile to the | United States. Beginning with the disappointment
 over the passiveness of Americas in tervention, the sentiment developed
 mistrust and an outspoken hostility in
 many quarters to the Princes Islands :
 proposal for a, conference of all Rus
 sian factions with the Allies, justly or
 otherwise credited to President Will
 son. Americans were instantly dubbed
 friends of the BoIsheviki, and the
 idea was quickly utilized by an un-
 friendly press and accepted in the po-
 litiCal circles of the Russians gener-
 ally There is no effective means here
 for combating this propaganda and
 the result is that the United States
 has few champions in any class or
 party.
 Reassurances by Major-GeneraI Will liam s. Graves, the military comman- der here, regarding Americas non partisanship, We're offset in the Rus sian mind, which is little concerned in the fine shades Of interference and
 non-interferece, toy definite charges of pro -Bolshevism here and abroad. arising from the refusal of the Amer 0 Ta against the alleged Bolsheviki in the Amur district. The giving of asylum Co the revOltng CossaCks recently was construed in Q similar way This in cident, however was the only one of a naigning character to draw fire. Col Henry D. Syer, who has been active for the Americans in the Cossack controversy. wrote to the newspa pers 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-nothfng policy Of the Americans is plainly getting on the nerves of the Russians. France and England have few troops here, and these are not actively engaged but their conInissioners are visiting and counselling the Omsk government with the result that they are being credited with being the best friends of Russia. The Japanese are re- sarded as having rendered positive service in 9 military way. Only the Americans. to whom the Russians looked for help and sympathy. are to have failed, not be- cause of their failure to send troops "a hope which has long since been bandoned-but for lack of moral and support such as other na- ions are giving.
 Among the troops and the villagers long the railways there is a suIIen- less and unfriendliness which did not zlist a month ago. This is due be- ides the Cossack incident. to a re- usal of General Graves to respond O appeals by the inhabitants along he Ussuri and Amur railways and he Suchan mines district, where the americans are stationed for protec- on against outrages by Russian sol iers. To these appeals, as well as equest from the Japanese in the la lagiCvestchnesk for a company of oops to fight the so-called BoIshe- Xxi. General Graves has made the elle reply, that he would be exceed -g his authority and violating the merican policy toward Russia
 Out of all of this has grown the large that Genera Graves has not town a proper spirit of cooperation Id has displayed a tendency to pre- oIsheyis7n