Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-08
korcHAk TO KEEP UP FIGHT.
Prince Cantaeuxens Says Ail.RusslaA
Governnner,t Still In Stronu.


Prince cantaeuxens Says Ail.Russlaa
Government Still 10 strong.
New York. Jan. 8.-Prince Cantacu.
zene, who married tho granddaughter
OF President Grant, and who Is IN this
country on a military mission for the
kolchak government OF Russia, said
today concerning the reports that Kol.
chalk had given UP the command.
Whether or not Kolchak has been
forced TO resign active command OF the
| ALL Russian armies because Of illness,
the military situation Is not seriously
altered thereby. There are other men
In the Russian army who will carry on
the fighting las long as there Is q foot
Of ground left. There Is vast terri
tory between the Russian front and the
Pacific ocean and even n Irirutsk has
fallen into the hands Of the bolsheviki,
which ! myself find hard to believe, the
all Russian army will carry on.
The Kolchak armies have the men
and they have many and excellent Of
ficers. What they need is supplies.
They have no shoes, no clothes. very
little ammunition, and very little food.
If the allies wish TO stop the spread
OF bolshevism thruout the world they
must come to the rescue OF Kolchak
and Deniklne. Semenoff is a Cossaok.
He is an honest and strong man. ] do
not believe that he Is playing into the
hands of the Japanese as people in
America are inclined to believe. He Is
n Russian and patriot. His meth
DDS are ruthless, but his purpose is to
fight the bolsheviki and save the world
from their clutches.
THE Kolchak armies are fighting on
the defensive. Until they are given
supplies by the allies, they will not be
able to take the offensive. Their great
contribution to the peace of the world
at present Is that they are preventing
the spread of bolshevism into the
orient.
1.-THE bolsheviki in Russia have
failed. 1t Is only matter of time
before the peasants, who are dfsillu-
stoned and bitter. uprise once more and
annihilate the bolshevik government.
When that happens what will the lead
ers of bolshevism do?' Russia Is al
ready looted and impoverished. There
is little more to gain by holding the
power in Russia. Their obvious aim is
to find new worlds to conquer. There
is great opportunity for them among the
ignorant masses OF China and India.
Once the leaders and the propaganda
of the bolsheviki have entered the
swarming lands of the orient there Is
no estimating the suffering and hor-
ror that will descend upon the world,
Nothing stands between the western
nations and such a catastrophe except
the thin. wavering line Of the Kol-
chak forces
There are Chinese In the bolshevik
armies These men were paid 10000
rubles apiece in paper money for tax
ing Omsk. The city presented pic
ture of desolation and horror un-
matched in the entire war, after it had
been looted by the Chinese mercenaries..
These men are anxious To return TO
their own homes and they have been
taught to believe that the only thing
which prevents their returning Is the
Kolchak armies. Once they break thru
they will return to China to spread boil
shevik doctrines from one end of the
orient to the other.
IF bolshevism can be kept isolated
In Russia it will wear itself out by
it's own excuses. Bolsnevism Is like
sickness preying upon the weak and
ignorant. BY cutting off the territory
occupied by the bolshevihi by means or
military force, the disease will wear it
self out. Governments are slow NOV
Ing, but there Is one thing which can
be done by the people of America I'M
mediately. Behind the Kolchak army
there is another pitiful army OF regu-
gees. Hundreds Of thousands OF peo-
Pile have fed out Of boshevik Russia
into Siberia. They are under the pro-
lection and care Of Kolchak and the
military authorities. and kolchak mas
neither the supplies nor the equipment
to care for them properly. Ihey are
scattered all the way across Siberia on
the line of the railroad.
"They are living in box cars, twenty
five and thirty women and children in
one car. They have nothing between
them and weather which is at forty
five degrees below zero, except the thin
board walls of the car. Their only heat
is from small stoves In these cars
which they keep supplied by pulling
down old snow sheds and gathering
fagots. This fuel makes hot hre Ior
few moments but soon burns out.
They have insufficient clothes to pro-
tect them against the weather and no
shoes or medical supplies. / helped 10
carry out eighteen corpses from one
car and to bury them. Only those In
the prime of life are living today. The
old people and the young children have
all died.
They cannot survive the hardships,
and these people are the educated
classes Of Russia. Among them are
the professional classes. the trades
people, clerks and skilled workmen.
The villages cannot care for them
Little towns built for a few people are
already overcrowded. and the peas
ants have all they can do TO feed ami
warm themselves and the people IN
their homes. II America will but help
| to care for this army nj refugees, q
terrible responsibility will have been
lifted from the shoulders OF the Rus
sian armies and thousands Of valuable
lives will be saved for the future.
THE American central committee Tor
Russian relief has undertaken the work
of rescuing this pitiful remnant OF a
once great nation. If supplies can be
sent quickly, great service will have
been rendered to Russia and to human