The Cordova daily times., 1920-01-17
'.tCREAT NEEDOF
 RUSSIAN ARMY
 FOR SUPPLIES

this country on a military mission for the Kolchak government of Russia, said today concerning the reports that kolchak 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 as long as there is a foot of ground left. There is vast ter the Pacific Ocean and even If Irkutsk has fallen into the hands of the Bol- sheviki, which I myself find hard to| believe, the all-Russian army will carry on.
 The Kolchak armies have the men and they have many and excellent officers 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 throughout the world, they must come to the rescueI of Kolchak and Denikine. Semenoffl .is a Cossack He is an honest and strong man. I do not believe that heI is playing into the hands of the Jap anese as people in America are in cIined to believe. He is Russian and a patriot His methods are ruth less, 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 arc pre- venting the spread of Bolshevism in- to the Orient
 "The Bolsheviki in Russia have failed. They know that they have failed. It is only a matter of time before the peasants, who are disil- lusioned and bitter, uprise once more and annihilate the Bolsheviki govern ment. When that happens what will the leaders of Bolshivism do? Russia is already footed and impoverished. There is little more to gain by hold ins power in Russia. Their obvious ,haim is to find new worlds to conquer. There is great opportunity for them among the ignorant masses of China and India. Once leaders and thel propaganda of the Bolsheviki have entered the swarming lands of the Orient, there is no estimating the upon the world. Nothing stands be- tween the Western nations and such a catastrophe except the thin waver- ing line of the Kolchak forces.
 There are Chinese in the Bolshev- iki armies These men were paid 10000 rubles apiece in paper money ]. for taking Omsk. The city presented Nsa picture of desolation and horror un- matched in the entire war, after itI had been footed by the Chinese mer-| eenaries. These men are anxious te return to their homes and they have been taught to believe that the only fhing which prevents their returning is the Kolchak armies. Once they break through they will return to China to spread Bo1shevik doctrines from one end of the Orient to the other.
 If Bolshevism can be kept isolated in Russia, it will wear itself out with it's own excesses. Bolshevim is like sickness preying upon the weak and ignorant. By cutting off the terri Atory occupied by the Bolsheviki by means of military force, the disease 1 will wear itself out. Governments are slow moving, but there is one thing which can be done by the peo- pie of America immediately. Behind the Kolchak army there is another pitiful army of refugees. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled out Of Bolshevik Russia into Siberia They are under the protection and care of Kolchak and the military authorities, and Kolchak has neither the supplies nor the equipment to care for them properly. They are scat tered all the way across Siberia on the line of Railroad
 They are living in box cars-25 and 30 women and children in one car. They have nothing between them and weather which is at 45 degrees below 1nrO aYcapf fho fhip 1r,1a of