Morris tribune., 1920-05-28
General BrusiIoff Reported to
Have Assumed Control Over
Soviet Russia.
PERSIAES TURNING BOLSHEvIK
Banks CurtaiIing Credits, Forcing Low.
err Prices for misunderstanding
Wage Scale Suggested for Rail-
way Labor-PoIitical De-
VeIopments 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. A good guess is
that General Brusiloff, former COM
mander in chief of the cars armies,
has effected a 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 a story of the
hopeless collapse of transportation in
soviet Russia and a prediction of the
downfall of bolshevism next winter if
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 Kiev
the Poles and Ukrainians have been
held, and between Borisoff and the
Dvina river they were driven back by
q strong counter offensive launched by
Brusiloff. In the Crimea General
Wrangel has formed a new government
with which the bolsheviki we're 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 Enzeli,
a 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
Georgians and Azerbaijans are fighting
fercely; just why is uncertain. The
Turkish natiOnalists, who are said to
be plotting with the leaders of bolshe-
vism through secret meetings in Ber-
lin and Rome, are still going strong
and are supposed to be promoting an
other uprising of nationalist in
Egypt.
The 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
les and the leaders are well supplied
with funds. The federation has now
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 1t is, but we
are uncertain as to just what is caus-
ing it and how far it will go. It looks
as if the reduction of the cost of living
really had begun with a general cut in
prices by many merchants all over the
country. So far the reductions apply
mainly to clothing and shoes. En-
thusiastic consumers are trying to per-
suade themselves that the movement