El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-02

4 Czechs; they were always and are
now willing to give the Czechs free
passage home by any route resired
Wilson Finds an Excuse.
But the Czecho-Slovak myth gave
I president Wilson, who was evidently
j completely taken in. his excuse for
Intervention. Our participation in
! Siberia, II was officially announced
! was to save the Czecho-Slovaks. and
hearty were the chuckles in London
! and Paris over the presidential an
J nouncement
So much for the war period. What
ever childish pretexts were alleged
} Tor Intervention in Russia. Il must
never be forgotten that the move
was sound. and necessary to save the
war ia the west Il was not the
/ Czechs. not BOlshevik atrocities, not
I love for constitutional government,
not as our own Bolsheviki say. capt.
talist desire for exploitation. that led
the allies into Russia It was neces-
sary to compel Germany to maintain
50 compelled; less than $4,000 entente
troops by stiffening up disaffectsd
elements immobilized 80 German div
islons and did much TO win the war.
Promises TO Russians.
When Germany laid down her arms,
allied Intervention IN Russia entered
on a new phase. Promises had been
made to Denikin, 20 the Siberian gov
eminent, 70 the north Russian gov
eminent that the allies would sup
port them. All the anti Bolshevik
governments in Russian territory
owed their existences TO allied help
and promises Our pledges were that
II our Russian friends would help
us against the Bolshevibd, and so
against the Germans, we would help
them. Without such promises the
allies could not have obtained Rus
But the war ended suddenly in the
autumn and the promises we had
made became very embarrassing. We
no longer desired to fight the Boil
sheviks; on the other hand how could
we abandon to massacre and pnlage
those people and towns we had in
cited TO rsvolt2 This problem has
II is true that the Boishewk have
offered, in a wireless that the
Franco British censorships sup
pressed 20 make peace with the al
lies on terms Of complete immunity
for anti Bolshevik Russia But while
7 think the allies are wrong to sup
press such an offer. they undoubtedly
have reasons to suspect the good
faith of any such pledge. Certainly
IN north Russia Siberia and the
southern steppes, the anti Bolshevik
il they are abandoned to Trotsky's
red guardsmen-
ALLIES Take Warning.
But a serious mutiny OF French
troops sent to Odessa, supported by
several Warships who ran up the red
flag last spring, warned the allies
that military Intervention could go
no further. Threatened strikes in
France and Britain against the Boil
shevik campaign finally determined
France and England to give over any
idea OF using their own troops
Commenced
AS a compromiss between their
forced decision to withdraw French
and British soldiers. and their feel
ing that honor demanded support for
kOlchaA, Denikin and the others, the
allies vita our consent decided to
help with money and munitions
where they could not help with men
80 today a British fleet oper-
nfes in the Gulf Of Finland,
while Finnish and Esfhonian
armies. fed and supplied by the
European allies, skfrmish and
vancouver with more or less ser
fousness towards PefroErad.
British tanks, cannon, rifles and
uniforms make possible Ueufkin's
advance. ard the Japanese and
ourselves pour supplies into ST.
uerla IN m eIlurt TO bolster up
hoichnk's redreatins army,
which has 10 keep one eye on
the Bolshevili and the other on
the Cgecho-slOvnks.
Fer the Czecho-SloValzs themselves,
their rage and despair at not beIn-
allowed TO go h0i4e has made ft
necessary 70 remove them from con-
tact with the Bolshevlk, who offer
them the shortest road.
One other valid argument in favor
Of the blockade Of Russia and Of the
support extended to the Eolchak and
Denikln forces by the allies since the
WILSON
armistiee Is the belief these measures
have afforded the new and strug-
Cling states on the borders Of Boil
shevism-
Keep Up Pressure.
Poland and Czecho- Sloyakia. II not
Rumanias Finlani and Esthonia: pos
sibly Hungary and Austria. might
have been overborne By red armies
during the past few months. IL two
thirds Of Trotsky's forces had not
been employed IN fighting their Rus 1
sian and allied enemies Kept busy
north, south and east, the red ar
mics have not been able to turn TO J
the west. and the war torn buffer 4
states between the red power and I
civilized Europe have been able to I
keep their heads above water Ac- 4
corlinglys II is argued by allied 4
statesmen that the pressure on the