The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-22

gime. Factions have been formed. for the epaulettes and the other against epaulettes They make appeals to General Deniken issue order to abolish them, and contrary factions and let ters begging him to retain them the only symbol of Russian greatness. Poor officers Thus question which at most is of simple military regulation becomes with them constitutional and national programme. They do not realiez that these outward symbols are the things which made them hated and detesed by the great majority of Russians Ekat- erinador the of General Denikens headquarters is veTitable babel. The 90 generals and the HOO coIoneIs and the 3o,OoO officers other rank all talking epaulettes. Many of them claim distinc and rank, which they evidently right all trouble is caused bv this rank no one in the army wants to be private; all want to be officers Naturally the 5G,OOO soldiers in the begin to show their discontent.
 Wealth SquaIor.
 Social life in Odessa is curious mixture of wealth and squalor Every house is a little Court but a ruined dilapidated with numerous chambermaids who have rnained faithful to their masters and who have land ed here like wrecks of the Revolution. but still main tairnng all the old etiquette and ceremony There they receive their visitors in badly furnished bed where the bed has sofa ta ble and anything like; the bed is all they have it is their drawing room, their kitchen and their dining room. Still, here they receive their friends, and keep all the pretense of official captions The European who comes there at once finds himself in peculiar atmosphere it reminds in London Paris at the beginning of the before Italy had joined the Allies: the question which asked of him morning. and night whether Italy would join. So everybody n Odessa asks the European whether the Entente is going to troops whether the Allies going re-establish order in Russia or not hen he troops coming, when the Conference of decide If wish to plain them that to send armies to Russia to re- constitute its empire is not such an easy task as they imagine, they innocently whether it Is of the BOlsheviks, who have triumphed the countries of the Entente The Rus upper the slightest idea of what is occupation of the seacoast towns on the part of Entente, and the huge effort it would require to carry the war into the interior. and impossibility of also doing without the of Conference Paris.
 The Russians joyfully assumed that the frmfs- wi Turk immediate of war against Bolsheviks the of the Entente armies fin Palestine, Mesopotamia, and restore order, they cannot understand why this was It is true that the Entente com rnitted m in oblging the Germans and Austrans to withdraw from Ukrainia- The contrary should been done-the German army of occupation, which amounted to about 50,0o0 to main keep the Bolsheyiks away from Kieff Bessambia- Once the mistake was made Bolsheviks had triumph: they occupied they the vicinity of the Sea of Azoff they could invade the region of the Cos sacks of the when they liked and they have Incorporated whole of Ukrainia and its army.
 In my opinion the following three solutions might be found to create order again in the Russian chaos; First intervention the part of the En- tente, but with imposing force consisting of all armies of officials of the Entente nations; second lv if the above intervention abandoned cut sheytk Government; the third aternative-or. rather would have bet months compel the sermans to make To my mind neither the first nor third any longer possible and only therefore the second ono remains
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