The New York herald., 1920-01-17
.BOLSHEVIST VICTORIES
ALARM GREAT BRITAIN
BY TRUMAN II. TALLEY.
Special Correspondent OF the Herald.
Copyright. 1920, by the Nc,c York Herald
Compony-AH Rights Rcserued.l
Especial Cable to the HeraId.l

LONDON, Friday.
Following the call yesterday of Britain.
foremost navy and army heads to con-
ference in Paris. England today is stirred
as she was never stirred before by fear
OF the imminence of the Red menace
The demand has swelled into cry for
concerted allied action to remove this
menace: that henceforth an aGgressivs
policy against the Bolsheviki is impera-
defence.
Yesterday there was a belief that un-
less the Reds were held inside Russia
proper the world soon would see another
war as great as that just ended Today
many persons are convinced OF this and
all England is viewing with gravest alarm
the possibility OF Bolshevst sweep into
ltho Balkans. the Near East and India.
News received here to-day Strengthens
the belief in England that conditions in
Russia as they affect civilization are
going from bad TO worse. Confirmation
or the report of the collapse Of the gov
lcrnment of admiral Kolcl:ak in siberia.
the failure Of General Dcnikine In South
Russia and the capture of Mariupol
Taganrog and Rostoff by tho Reds. while
odessa, reported in the hands OF the Uk
rainain insurgents, appears to be q juiey
morsel waiting 10 nc gobbled up by the
Leninc-TrotZky forces; the occupation
OF kiakhta. southeast OF Irkutsk and on
the Mongoian frontier whence propa-
ganda can be scattered broadcast. by con-
veyance over the Gobi Desert through
out Chna--all this and more has served
TO arouse Great Britain to urge allied
action TO remove the present Bolshcvist
menace.
Britain Awskens
Great Britain has suddenly been brought
20 a realization that no real barriers gtand
between the Red hordes. which consti-
tute the worlds largest army today. and
Poland. the Eastern Balkans, Turkey
perhaps Egypt. Mesopotama. Afghanis.
tan, and even India and China.
This uneasiness. which has been appar-
ent here for several days. chrystallizcd
into conviction today. following tho publi-
cation by the London press Of statements
by unnamed high authorities" IL de-
veloped that these high authorities" were
officials OF the Foreign office ana the
War Office. They bore all the earmarks
Of being the beginning of an intense cam
paign TO educate England and the world
to the necessity OF immediate military
action against a common enemy. who was
advancing victoriously on ali fronts one
OF these statements contained this pas
sage, Wnlch the Ionuon press accepted as
indicating carly military activity on a vast
scale on all fronts threatened by tho
Bolsheviki;-
within a short tmc-pcrhaps In few
nonths-we shall be face TO face with
new and great danger in the Middle East
and in the East. II Is UP TO us TO be pre-
pared for eventualties ana not to allow
ourselves TO be caught mapping "a we
we're caught in 1874 II seems that there
Will have to be a military commitment on
a very large scale"
It was admitted that with Judenitch
long since beaten In the West Kolchak
eliminated in the East and Red wedge
driven into DeniSine's army in the Sodth
tho roads lie open TO the Bolshevik in all
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