The Nenana daily news., 1919-02-11
ALLIES WAITING MOVE Of SLAVS;;
 WILL GIVE AID

that conferences soon will be held in the south of Russia in which will participate representatives of the Ukraine government, the Don Cos sacks, the Orenburg Cossocks and the provisional governments of Ar menia and Georgia. Their purpose will be to reach an understanding as to the creation of d government in both Russia, the Caucasus and the Caucasus, with which the Entente powers can co-0perate n restoring normal economic, social and political conditions.
 Although the Bolshevil1i ,,aYe many followers throughout Ukraine, they never were predominant, even ill the shipbulding cities of the Black Sea. In the Don region ard .n the Caucasus and Trans-Caucas their hold has been even olightc.'. Cos sacks of all sorts have been enemies of the Bolsheviki, as they are all landholders and unalterably opposed to the domination of their districts by outsiders.
 Many British naval and military officers, as well as civil officials have left London for the Black Sea district since the signing of the armistice and commercial interests are also sending representatives to look the situation over preparatory to opening up the extensive oil and grain districts.
 Siberia, the Ukraine, Finland and the new government at Archangel shut Bolshevik Russia off entirely from it's ports, and the unfriend- Illness of the government in all these sections to the Moscow government under Lenine is daily increasing the
 
 strain on soviet Russia. The new governments in these various sec tions which have refused to accept Bolshevism are not as stable as the Entente powers might wish. While they all express their desire to-. be. come part of Russia should fed eration become possible under an acceptable central government, the political differences in all the four sections named have been keen, and party quarrels and the ambition of rival leaders have frequently ex- ceeded patriotism in the struggle for power. .1", #.5l.i
 Only about 10000, ,OOO inhabitants now remain under Bolshevik con trol, The total population of the Russian empire as it existed before the revolution was estimated at 180,000,000. The great majority of this population is in the portion of Russia south of Bolshevik rule which is far the richest and most populous portion of the former ,em pire. = Consequently, developments ir South Russia are watched with grea : eagerness by military and naval mer [ and diplomatists alike. A stabl, . central government established a kiev, Odessa or Sevastopol and re ; cognized by the Entente powers ? would control the great majorit, , of Russia's natural resources, es , pecially if it gained control of.:yh, r Volga and established communica , tion with the mineral deposits of:th, , Urals, and the grain fields of Si f beria,
 t Such government would na ) turally be the key to Russia's politi . cal and economic future. Northern l, Russia is sterile in contrast with tn, : south. It's lands are poor. Moscow . and Petrograd industries depend. en 9 tirely upon distant centers for thei Q raw products. The factories and in s dustrial populations of North Rus g sia, or soviet Russia, are entirel , within districts which cannot fee, !, themselves. And therein lies :ssfh P greatest inherent weakness of tn
 Russian Bolsheviki movement. It i
 based on theories which are repue
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