The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-06-04
General BrusiIoff Reported to
Have Assumed Control Over
Soviet Russia.
PERSIAKS TURNING BOLSHEyIk
Banks Curtailing Credits, Forcing Low.
er Prices for rchandise-Slidino
Wage Scale Suggested for Rail.
way labor-PoIitical De.
velopments in Both
Parties.
BY EDWARD w. PlckARp.

Something of Importance has been
happening in Russia The dispatches
OF the week made this fairly certain.
but they did not reveal the exact ma
ture of the event. good guess is
that General Brusloff. former com
mander in chief of the ears armies,
has effected military coup and has
assumed the full control of the soviet
republic formerly exercised by the ci-
william commssaries. Rumors~of this
have been current for week. A
change of policy il not of authority. is
indicated by the fact that a Moscow
correspondent has been permitted, for
the first time, to send Il story of the
hopeless collapse of transportation in
soviet Russia and a prediction of the
downfall of bolshevsm next winter II
not before.
On the other hand. authentic dis
patches show the Russian Reds are by
no means whipped yet. and that the
spread of their doctrines in other lands
has not been checked. East of Kiey
the Poles and Ukrainians have been
held, and between Borisoff and the
Dvina river they were driven back by
a strong counter offensive launched by
Brusioff. In the Crimea General
Wrangel has formed new government
with which the bolsheviki were expect
ed to open peace negotiations AT once,
the remnants of Denikine's army being
assured of safety.
Unconvinced by the impending fate
Of soviet Russia. or ignorant Of it, the
Persians seem to be turning more and
more to bOlshevism. with the active CO.
operation of the Russians The French
foreign office on Wednesday received
word that the Persian gendarmerie,
which was organized by Morgan Shus-
ter some years ago. had turned bolshe-
vik and that the young shah had fled
southwark from his capital. At EnZe'i,
Persian port on the Caspian sea. the
Reds landed from thirteen ships and
the British were forced to evacuate
the city. Though the japanese in ST.
IBERIA are now having things all their
own way, the mikado's government is
worried. for boIshevism is spreading
among the Japanese troops In that
country and is injecting the people al
home also.
In the Caucasian region conditions
are confused and disheartening. The
Georgians and Azerbaijans are fighting
ferceIy; just why is uncertain. The
Turkish natiOnalists. who are said IL
be plotting with the leaders OF bolshe'
yism through secret meetings in Der
lin and Rome. are still going strong
and are supposed to be promoting an
| other uprising Of nationalists In
Egypt.
The determInat'o of the French
government IN brea. up the Genera
Federation OF Labor v explained full,
nv disclosure Of evidence found ny the
police. This shows that n the MAY
revolutionary strikes bad succeeded
all was prepared for the institution
of soviet rule in France. Soviets hac
been established In seven principal cit
les and the lenders are we'll supplied
with funds. The federation has now
refused To he identified with the ex
tremjsts and has called off all the
strikes.
Something is happening In America
too and we all know what II is. but We
are uncertain as To just what Is cauS
in, n and how far II will 70. IL look: