Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-05-27
General BrusiIoff Reported 10
Have Assumed Control Over
Soviet Russia.
:PERSIANS TURNING BOLSHEy|g
Banks curtalling Credits, Forcing Low.
. er Prices for misunderstanding
! Wage Scale Suggested for Rail-
way Labor-Political De-
/ velopments In Both
Parties.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARp.

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. A good guess is
that General Brusiloff, 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 CT.
william commissaries. Rumors of this
have been current for a week. A
change of policy if not of authority, is
indicated by the fact that a Moscow
correspondent has been permitted, for
the first time, to send story of the
hopeless collapse of transportation in
soviet Russia and prediction of the
downfall of bolshevism next winter II
mot before.
On the other hand, authentic dis
patches show the Russian Reds are by
mo means whipped yet, and that the
spread Of their doctrines in other lands
has not been checked. East of Iiev
the Poles and Ukrainians have been
held, and between Borisoff and the
.Dvina river they were driven back by
n strong counter offensive launched by
BruslOff. In the Crimea General
Wrangel has formed new government
with which the bolsheviki were expect.
led to open peace negotiations at once
the remnants of Denikine's army being
assured of safety.
11npOp vfnood hu tho impop1inC fo
.Of soviet Russia, or ignorant of 1t, 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 gendarmere
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 Enzeli,
ga 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 bolshevism is spreading
among the Japanese troops in that
.country and is injecting the people at
home also.
In the Caucasian region conditions
are confused and disheartening. The
hGeorgians and AZerbaijans are fighting
f1ercely; just why is uncertain. The
Turkish nationalists, who are said to
sbe plotting with the leaders of bolshe-
avism through secret meetings in Ber-
lin and Rome, are still going strong
land are supposed to be promoting an
other uprising of nationalists in
Egypt.
Tie determination of the French
government to break up the General
Federation of Labor is explained fully
by disclosure Of evidence found by the
police This shows that if the May /
Revolutionary strikes had succeeded
all was prepared for the institution
OF soviet rule in France. Soviets had
been established in seven principal cit
I lies and the leaders are well supplied
with funds. The federation has now
4 refused to be identified with the ex-
-tremists and has called off all the
:strikes.
Something is happening in America
too, and we all know what it is, but we
are uncertain as to just what is caus
ing 1t and how far it will go. 1t looks
:as II the reduction Of the cost Of living
really had begun with general cut ir
prices by many merchants all over the
country. So far the reductions apply
mainly to clothing and shoes. En-
lthusiastic consumers are trying to per
shade themselves that the movement