Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-13
FORMER RUSSIAN
 DUKE PLEAS FOR
 ALLIED TROOPS
Armed Intervention Is Els sential To Life Of Na-
 tion, He Says.

Paris, March 12.-Former Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, who arrived in Paris recently from the Crimea, told the Associated Press today that unless armed allied intervention ill Russia began at once the situation ill Russia would become so hopelessly desperate that it would take years, perhaps decades to restore sembl- ance of order and bring about peace grand duke, who is brother-in- law of the former emperor, continued:
 "I do not ask the allies to fight for us. We merely ask them to keep order in the territories Wrested from Bolshevism by the governments al- ready fighting the Soviet
 ''I came here ill January in an at- tempt to help my country as. a priv ate citizen acquainted with conditions in Russia. thought I would find justice and sympathy at the peace conference but I have been disap- pointed. as 1 found visible only per sonal intrigues, party politics and na- tional egotism."
 Asked To See Wilson.
 'T requested President Wilson to receive me but he replied through his secretary that he was too busy with peace conference matters. What mat ter can be more momentuous to the peace conference than the Russian problem? I asked to be allowed to go to England but was, refused a passport yet they received Kerensky. I dare not request permission to visit America, not wishing to invite re- buff"
 Referring to the proposed confer- ence on the Princes Islands, the grand duke said that the proposal was a mistake as it gave the Bolsheviki a strong weapon to wielG in Russia over the covering population. The Bolshevik are claiming the grand duke said, that the allies have re-or- ganized them because they feared the Rolsheviki.
 "On January 25," the grand duke continued. seven days after the Prin- ces Islands proposal, the Bolsheviki led out my two brothers and two cou- sins from tho fortress Of St. Peter and St. Paul and shot them without trial. They never would have dared to do this unless they had been sure of the moral support afforded by the semi reorganization by the peace confer ence. 7
 Bolsheyism Menaces World.
 Had President Wilson come out strongly and surely with repudia- tion of and non-recognition of the Bolsheviki, it would have encouraged the governments warning against them. .Bolshevism will be the devil in the future league. of nations"
 The grand duke was somewhat skeptical whether royalty was thing of the past He then reverted to con ditions in Russia, saying:
 "What We want from the allies is a frank statement, of whether they intend to intervene in Russia or not, or whether we have to look elsewhere for salvation. Under their state of mind the would-be ruling classes in Russia probably will look tQ Germany for help and the Germans Understand how to deal with the BolshcviN. F!
 Tt is my opinion that the, Sparta can movement in Germany is kept alive only as a means of blackn1ail against the allies When. the prelim- mary peace is signed, when Germany had used the Spartacans to the ut most to blackmail the, entente into sending food and gralting ipereciful conditions ospeace Whsny Spattacishl has served it's pnrpose, it will disap- pear ...-
 Daily Thought.