Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-24
RUSSIA FIGHTS
SENDING FOOD
TO BOLSHEvIKI
Head Of ArchangeI Govern
rnent Says Feeding BoIshe-
visits Would ProIong Plan
of Regeneration.

sAtSuoh6Sif hPih so Ny enS
Associated Press.)-Opposition by
officials of the government OF north
Russia to the plan, for feeding boil
shevik Russia as recently made
public in Paris, is based not only
on unwillingness to provision ter
ritory occupied by forces of a gov
eminent the north Russians are
j fighting. but because they believe
the plan would not be efficacious in
combating bolshvism.
In the interview given the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent record
ing his opposition to plan, Lieuten-
ant General Eugene Karlovitch Mill
err, acting head of the Archangel
government, expressed the view that
those who helped bolshevik Russia
in this wise would in effect be ally
ing themselves with the bolsheviki.
Others in official circles expressed
opposition to the scheme and on all
hands there was approval of the
statement of the Russian leaders in
Paris that those claiming toward re-
generation of Russia should not for
one moment cease fighting the boil
sheviki.
Armistice Impossible.
General Miller characterized as
impossible and impracticable" the
proposition that the anti-bolshevik
Russians should cease fighting at
any place in order to allow pro-
visions to reach their enemies.
The bolshevik government" con-
tinued the general is hard pressed
from a military standpoint by the
Siberian forces and it now is help
less in the north. In the interior it
faces hunger. 1t would doubtless
welcome an armistice and would
eagerly accept help from outside
Those who help it would, in effect,
at least simply being making
an alliance with the bolsheviki."
And this, the general said, at a time
when victory for the opponents of
bolshevism was near at hand.
Hold Front Line.
General Miller stated that the pc
Rod of trial for the new Russian
troops in the north was finished. He
pointed out that the Russian force
which was fighting on the northern
front last autumn was small and its
morale nothing to brag of, but
now" continued the general, the
number of the Russians in the
north equals that of all the allies
combined. Their morale is excel
lent. On the actual fighting fronts
most OF the work now is being done
by the Russians. They are more
and more taking the first line posi-
tons, while the allies protect the
rear"
General Miller said the morale of
the soldiers had improved while they,
were at the front because they were
thrown in contact with peasants
who had suffered from bolshevik
depredations, so that whatever the
troops had thought previously of the
theories of bolshevism they soon
learned to hate that doctrine in prac
tice.
Defeat Necessary.
1T must be understood" General
Miller said, shat this civil war is
not only a war of principles, but
war against brigandage. All over
Russia there are little groups of boil
shevik brigands and anti-bolshevik
peasants engaged in fighting and full
Of hatred that can only be wiped
out by determination.
"The fulfllment of the bolshevik
pledges would result in the extermi-
nation of the bourgeois classes. The
issue is so clear that there is but
only one solution to 1.-THE COM
plete defeat Of the bolshevik leaders.
who, having guns, impose their will
ou those who do not have them"