The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-14
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reply sent on Thursday by the council OF
four to note from Admiral Kolchak extends to
him and his associates in the All-Russian gov
eminent at omsk, support which is interpreted
as meaning a defacto recognition of the Omsk
government.
Kenneth L. Roberts, recently returned from
Siberia, has written in a most Illuminating way
Of the troubles now existent in Russia. He does
not believe that Bolshevism can be eradicated by
feeding Bolshevikis. And he thinks the ideals
of Lenine and Trotzky, as admired by Mr.. Ray
mond Robbins, and his ilk, prove Mr.. Robbins
and his colleagues to be off their base. AS Mr.
Roberts succinctly puts it: "In tn eopinion OF
Americans who have returned from Siberia, Mr.
Robbins is upward of $4,000 versts off his base
$4,000 versts being the approximation of the
distance of America from Petrograd, via the
Pacific ocean"
No one who has read the expressions by Mr.
Roberts, and kept at all informed of the opinion
of those who have been close to the heart of the
trouhleSj n Russia, but must feel that it is time
for sd4l Kind of Intervention, if the world is to
be saved from the Red Terror which has back Of
it the withered arm of the House of Hohenzol-
lern.
It is understood that the support referred to
munitions and supplies for Admiral Kolchak's
campaign.
1t. Roberts quotes 1t. Col. David P. Barrows
chief intelligence officer of the American Expe-
dictionary Forces in Siberia, as making the fol
lowing statement:
Men Ike the BOlsheviki whose doctrines are
q negation of all morale, cannot prevail against
much inferior minority who will hold together
in protection of what they have, and who believe
for military effectiveness at least-in discip-
line, obedience and subordination to authority
Had Russia possessed such a class, even to the
number of one million, out of her one hundred
and sixty millions, that one hundred and six
tieth part could have defeated Bolshevism and
held the nation together"
Lieutenant Colonel Rodzianko of the British
army, of the Rodzianko who was the presi-
dent of the Russian Duma, according to Mr..
Roberts, on his return from Vladivostok from
the Volga front early in December, 1913 (when
information tended to show that the Red army
on the front numbered 100000 men), said ''The
Bolshevists joke. They are towards; they
are not organized; they are not trained; they
are not disciplined; they are not armed. 1t would
be an insult to ask a soldier to fight them. But
il wouldn't be insult to ask soldier to walk
through them. Give me twenty thousand we'll
trained, Well-organlzed, well-armed fighting men
only twenty thousand fighting men, less than
an American division-and with them l could
clear Russia. | would take them to Ekaterin-
burg, divide them and send ten thousand towards
Petrograd and ten thousand towards Moscow. /
tell you that two weeks after they started from
Ekaterinburg-onl two weeks-those two forces
would have walked through the entire Bolsheviki
army, would have taken Petrograd and Moscow
and would be holding them against all comers''
Colonel Rodzianko knew Russia and also knew
the Russians, SO that his opinion carries unusual
weight. His views were upheld by Col Edwin
Landon OF the American Expeditionary Forces
Colonel Landon also investigated conditions on
the Volga front in the autumn of 1918 and re-
turned to Vladivovstok with the tidings that the
Bolsheviki army from the standpoint of the SOL
der was g. joke.
Since then, however. the Bolsheviki army has