Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-29
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AMERICAN TROOPS IN RUSSIA

It would be interesting to know just why a mere handful oa
American soldiers together with a small company OF BRUSH are SUI
fighting away up in the frozen north, somewhere IN ue v nin u
Arcbaneel Russia. Apparently these troops are lighting oShe'i
foroos and iudping from latest reports from that far-of region, they
ae meeting with defeat due to the overwhelming numbers L 'heir
opponents. coao.
Is the United States and Great Britain at war with the Soviet
APT Of Russia We have not heard of any such declaration
While Russia no longer exists as the country we knew when the war
began, Russia is still looked upon as one of the Entente and II Is n
of the wellknown policies of President wilson TO 20 Every h"s p'
sihle to help that country.
1t was only a day or two ago that the allied natlons Represented
at the peace conference in France accepted President Wilson's plan
to get representatives of all the Russian factions together OF princeS
Island in the Sea of Marmora to try to strengthen Things oul' or"s
peace to that devastated country once more and arrange Tor a repre-
sentaion of Russia at the peace conference.
But while all this is going on a little army of American and Brit
;Lb soldiers are battling in the frozen swamps up near the Arctlc
circle just as if they had not learned that al armStice had been
signed and that the fighting was over.
What s it all about, anyway
BEFORE the armistice was signed it was understood that an effort
was being made to build up a new Russian front against Germany
With the Slovak army in central Russia and with the allied 1orees'
including the japanese, coming in across the Siber1tn railway
vladivostok, it was deemed a strategic move to send another allied
force into Russia by way of Archangel and endeavor to have all d
these forces meet and thus reopen the war upon Germany from the
East; at the same time prevent Germany from entering hussia ana
making use of the vast materials to befound there.
True, there are vast supplies at Archangel which must be guarded
until thew car be removed, but that does not require an offensive on
the part of the allies o a aggressive warfare
IL the allies are at war with the Bolshevikl and are carrying III
military operations against the present Soviet government OF Russia
with the purpose of occupying Russia and setting up a government
that can be recognized, why not go about it on an extensive scale so
that something worth while may be Accomplishment The little band IL
men O slowly retreating toward Archangel can never do anything
They are suffering in the intense cold and dying all for no purpose.
1t is as if they had been forgotten and left to fight it out by them
selves regardless Of what fate might befal them.
Either heavy achievements should be sent to them-help suh-
Gent to accomplish something, or the men should be withdrawn alto
gether. &C.,.
Judging from the snG6rf0r-asjt is ies~ }evepping at-the peace
conference and the attitude of President Wilson toward the Russian
factions. withdrawal of all the American troops is the only logical
thing to dc.
If the allied governments aea at war with the Bolsheyiki the fact
ought to be so declared and the war should be pressed with vlgor.
There ought to be no more dickering with delegates, and such a con-
ference as S proposed for the Princes Islands ought to be abandoned.
But if there is no war with the Bolsheviki then why is there light
ing still going o. in the north of Russaf
The whole thing would be a farce were it not for the fact that
American boys arr dying away up there III Russia md the Ice ana
the snow. That makes it the saddest kind of a tragedy.
1t is all well enough for the peace delegates to meet day after day
in their comfortable quarters in Paris and discuss matters in their
lesurely way, but either some real help should be sent to those boys
at Archangel or they should be Withdrawn without further delay