Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-03

White Book" overreached itself
Some of the American correspond
ents sent the contents with reserva-
tons: others did not touch the docu-
ment.
Eyewitness Facts Suppressed.
About this time the Universal
Service correspondent secured all
interview with Col. Josiah Wedg-
wood. M. p, wherein the member
told bit of secret history never
before revealed and having to do
with alleged brutal excuses COM
mited by Admiral Koltchak's army
in Siberia, and the reaction these
excuses produced upon American
naval and army commanders in the
Far East. The British censor killed
the entire dispatch; not line OF it
passed over the cables.
The allies, you see, were support
ing" Admiral Kolchak. He was
"deliverer" and not at all what the
British member of Parliament call
ed him. incidentally Colonel
Wedgwood collected his informa-
ton concerning the Koltchak out
RACES firsthand as an agent of the
British government in Siberia during
the autumn of 1918.
Presidents Act Irregular"
When, late in the spring, the two
American unofficial commission
ers." Steffens and Built, went to
Moscow and returned to Paris to
report to the president certain mat
tiers not yet revealed, there was
great outcry from the conservative
and militaristic newspapers of Lon
don against this highly irregular
proceeding They wondered, first,
how any Americans could have pene-
trated to the heart Of the empire
of blood" and return alive; secondly,
and far more pertinently, what was
Wilson's game in thus appearing to
traffic with bolshevism?
Short Cut to the Truth.
But the incident was not without
an equal effect upon other and more
liberal thought here in England.
Publicists began to wonder whether
or not President Wilson had not
taken a short cut to the truth; if he
had begun to suspect that the good
old weapon of propaganda had been
working overtime. In the midst of
these cogitations bolshevism, which
had been "tottering on the brink
and was falling by its own weight"
reached out to include all of Hun
gary, and forced an allied army.
mostly French, to evacuate Odessa,
England began to think harder
than before. The war Office timor-
ously sent forth communicates con-
corning allied successes in the muir
mansk section, wherein bolshevik
outposts were driven back.
But now Mr.. Churchill makes GER
tain statements in Parliament in
marked contrast with his alarming
cry of March concerning the posi-
bility of American and British SOL
diers being driven into the sea.
Police Work Present Duty.
"1ow farcical to pretend" he
says, that the operations of the al
lies in Russia are operations of Sc
rious and important warfare!
During the six months that have
elapsed since the armistice," he
continued, British casualties all
over Russia had totaled only 294 of
whom the killed numbered IS Off
GERS and 10 'rankers.' Something
in the nature of police work and as
a certain symbol of British SYM
pathy and support and prop of the
Omsk government was the present
duty of the British arms in Russia.
according to the minister of war"
Why, the British taxpayer is now
asking-why did Mr.. Churchill
clamor for the instant raising of a
relief force for North Russia last
March if the British contingents
now in Russia are doing only police
work?
There's niger" in this Russian
woodpile. Since the duty of the
correspondent is not to editorialize
but merely to record facts as nearly
authenticated as possible, he must
content himself with pointing out
the presence of this particular
Ethiopian without attempting tc
give personal opinions as to the gen.
tleman's name and family traits.