The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-01-14
ALLIED DELAYS
INCREASE PERIL
OF BOLSHEv|SM
Adequate Forces Needed,
SAYS Former Minister,
y, II. Wickam Stecd

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a. noon Times cable ropryrsht
1919. ny Public Ledger Coz
rtrls. l.n Il Boris SaylnEoli
,.l w.. rae minister 20 the kcr
Ky c.buct. has given me tnc SrN
.,..r account OF the realities IN th"
s.a. Russian situation ! have g..
.ycd. He recently left Omsk and
came 10 Europe hy way oi Shanghai
pad the Suci canal as the seat OF a
,gecial military mission His lorg
c.rccr as an active revolutionary, h't
rl.sonal experience Of all the phases
~ revolution and hs record as an
Intelligent, upright ran Of action
lend importance 10 his views
Revolution Is Over.
The Russian revolution" he said
"s over paaioNlcal though It may
seem. this is the sober truth. The
main fact about Russia IS that her
population consists OF ono hundred
and fifty million peasants. mostly IL
litcrate. II often is asserted that I'm
der the c1afiom the peasants were
convinced monlrchlStS and alter
ward. became convinced social rev
olutionaflcS or convinced Bolsheyikl.
in reality they were only cpgvinccd
they must have land. Now that they
have got in they want 20 keep H.
That is the fundamental truth OF
Russian revolution When the old
regime was oycr,hrown, revolution
was popular among the thirteen mil
lion peasants who formed the army,
because it promised them peace The
bolsheviki have become popular
among this peaSantry TO which the
soldiers belonged because they told
them 10 seize land. The social rev
olutionarcs led by kcrcnSky were
less popular becauhc they were les,
radical. Leninc and Trotzky also Sc
cured the support OF five million ur-
ban workmcn hy proclliming a die
tatorship OF the industrial prolctarlat
Thus they had virtually the whole
. Russian masses on their SIDE But
now the urban prolctariat largely IS
altered by the lack Of food, while in
many districts the pcaSan,ry has been
cstranCcd by the ioroiblc rcqulSitjon-
ing OF secret stores OF grain.
Motley Red Forces.
"Cons cqueu'ly lenine and Trotzky
arc faced with either indifference or
passive resistance throughout the
country They maintain power
ifmurl what now if g prc'orian at
re composed oi Lc,'sh and Chinese
uarcs. Nl'iencd hy an admiy-
f" ot 'nrmcr Aus'ro-lIungarlar
prisoner, at war, mostly Magyars
troops are well paid Fac
ran receives from $50 to 500 rublc,
'r'hly While the civilians starv-
the holsh,yi,t soldiers arc amply and
,lgn,ly led.
Nnder the direction of Trotlky
Cr-w1n officers have introduced iror
discipline ~ the bolshevist forces
and have taught them to mancuyer
They number at least 10000. They
would he perhaps no match for west,
crn regular troops, but they are for
midable opposition for troops as III
equipped as those Of the OmSk gov.
eminent The danger is that il Lieh-
knccht ,riumph' in Germany, ,h'
Russian prcloriani may join hand.
with the German holShevjst forces al
the expense OF Poland, where larV,
landed properties and unemployed
OF the industrial prolctariat offer
favorable conditions for bolshcvii,
propaganda Should this occur, III,
western allies may he oonfronted
with a serious military problem II
Germany. They should therefore ex.
anime the outlook carefully and ac'
promptly.
'Join, allied Intervention ,hrougl
southern Russia II undertaken rap.
idly and with adequate forces. woult
conjure the bolsheyis, peril. One veal
ago or even last spring before III,
bolshevi,t army was formed, 10000 al
lied troops would have saved the sit
uation. Now 10000 would he re
quired II i, futile TO expec, detach