New-York tribune., 1920-01-16
Premier Calls Conference
to Stem Onrush of Rad.
icals After Success
in European Territory
Huge Bases of
Supplies Seized
b o | s h evik Commands
Grow After Victories:
New Advances Feared

lNCW ADVANCES reared
LONDON, Jan. 15 (By The Asso-
ciated Press. Before peace with
Germany is week old the British
public has been brought up sharply
against the possibility of another
war. Winston Spencer Churchill.
Secretary for War; Walter Hume
Long. First Lord Of the Admiralty;
Baron Beatty, commander of the
Grand Fleet, and Field Marshal Sir
Henry H. Wilson, chief of the I'M
perial Staff, left London tonight,
having been hurriedly summoned to
Paris for a consultation with Pre-
mier Lloyd George and other British
Officials there on important military
land naval matters.
This summons is inevitably COLI
nected in the public mind with the
semi-official statement published to-
day calling attention to the threat
ening situation in the Middle East
as result of Bolshevik military
successes, which have given the So
viets virtual mastery of the whole
of European Russia, for, although it
is not yet confirmed that they have
entered Odessa, it is believed it can
not be long before they are in full
possess ion Of these coast regions.
Get Command of Supplies
By their victories the Bolsheviki
have secured command Of enormous
supplies of food, raw materials, Goa,
and rolling stock and other means o.
transport which they formerly we're in
need of.
/ Speculation is active in the Euro
! pean capitals as to what will be the
next move of the Bolsheviki. 1t is re-
garded as certain that, flushed with
success, they will not be- content with
their present conquests, but will seek
to extend Bolshevism. either eastward
or westward. Expert military opinion
inclines to the belief that their next
move will be an attack on Poland and
the Baltic states, and Warsaw dis
patches to the London papers already
indicate that the Poles are fully an
ticipating such move.
Flanks Are Exposed
The Soviets now undoubtedly COM
mand formidable forces, but not suf3
Gent to warrant an attempt to advance
both east and west. Against the like
lihOod of an attack on Poland. which
it is said, will be popular with the "Red'
generals, is the fact that the Bolshevk
tanks would be exposed on the north
to an attack by the Let's and on the
south to an attack by the Rumanians
The mi-official statement issued
at London to-day seems TO indicate
that the British government is more
apprehensive OF a move eastward,
threatening India.
Within the next three months, says
the statement. Great Britain may be
faced with serious Bolshevik situa-
ton in the Near East, which would
mean military. commitments, according
to expert opinion based on official ad
vices from the theaters of war.
Caucasus Position Reviewed
The Bolshevist occupation of Trans
Caspa may be regarded as virtually
complete, which makes the position in
the Caucasus most difficult from ar
anti-"Red" viewpoint There is little
hope of stopping the Boisheviki from
overrunning the Caucasus, and if they
succeed they will be able to join Mus
tapha Kemal Pastha (head of the Turk
isb Naiionalstsl and other Turks for
Mesopotamian aggression.
Likewise Red occupation of trans
Caspia gives the Bolsheviki base for
operations against Persia and extend
ing TO India with the cooperation of
Afghanistan. Georgia and Azerbaijan
arc anti-Bolshevik, but they are not
strong enough to resist the invasion
which threatens Them from the north.
where General Denikine's right wing
is being pressed back and from across
the Caspian, where the Bolsheviki
seem to be well established There is
a large Bolshevist element IN Baku,
and Red" landing there would prob
ably result in the recruitment of these
Bolsheviki Immediately.
Daghestan is even more helpless
than Georgia and Azerbaijan. Numer-
Gus Turks are also penetrating into
the Caucasus from the south with the
object of fomenting trouble.
The difficulties in Mesopotamia ap-
pear by no means to be finished. Ra-
MADAM Shalash, one of the leaders. con
tinues his efforts TO stir up the tribes
in the British area and has threatened
an attack in case of Noncompliance
with his demands for evacuation o.
certain districts. The British general,
Maomunn, commanding in Mesopota-
mia, has issued an ultimatum ordering
the cessation of this agitation and has
attacked and dispersed Ramadan's
forces, WHICH had crossed into British
territory.
"Reds" Improve Railway
The Reds" are pouring troops into
trans-Caspia by greatly improved rail-
ways. A party Of Boishevist Turks Is
reported TO have arrived AT Herat
Afghanistan. with two carts containing
airplane parts and wireless installation.
and to have gone on by way OF Kanda-
har and Kabul. escorted by Afghan
cavalry.
The "Reds" have opened fifty propa-
ganda schools at Tashkent. where Ori-
entail languages will he taught and
from which "Red" agents Wall be sent
to India and China and all the Mos!em
countries. The Tashksut Soviet re.