, 1920-05-27
General BrusiIoff Reported to
Have Assumed Control Over
Soviet Russia.
PERSIANS TURNING BOLSHEWK
Banks curtaiiIna Credits. Forcing Low.
er Prices for MISUNDERSTANDING
Wage Scale Suggested for Rail-
way labor-Poiitieai De-
veiopmsnts 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 GeneralS Brusilef, 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 q week. A
change of policy if not Of authority. is
Indicated by the tact 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 II
not before.
On the other hand, authentic dis
patches show the Russian Reds are by
no 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 Borisof and the
Dvina river they were driven back by
a strong counter offensive launched BY
Brusiioff. In the Crimea General
Wrnngei has formed q new government
with which the boIsheviki were expect
ed to open peace negotiations at once.
the remnants Of Denikine's army being
assured of safety.
Unconxinced by the impending, fate
OF soviet Russia. OF, ig~uorant,0f 1t. the
Persians seem to be turning more and
more to b~oisheyism. with the active CO.
operation OF the Russians. The French
foreign ONCE 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 fed
southwark from his capital. At Enxeli,
a Persian port on the Caspian sen, the
Reds landed from thirteen ships and
the British were forced TO eyacuate
the city. Though the Japanese In ST.
IBERIA are now having things all their
own way. he mikado's government is
worried. Tor 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
hereeiy Just why is uncertain. The
Turkish na~tionalists. who are said to
be plotting with the leaders of bolshe-
vism through secret meetings 10 Ber-
lin and Rome. are stfl going strong
and are supposed to be promoting an
other uprising OF nationallsts 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 thai II the May 1
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 on all the
strikes.
Something Is happening In America,
too. and we all know what II Is. but we
are uncertain rs to just what Is caus-
Ing 1t and how far It will go. It looks
as II the reduction OF the cost Of living
really had begun with a general cut in
prices by many merchants oil over the
country. SO far the reductions apply
mainly to clothing and shoes. En-
ihusiastic consumers are trying to per-
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