Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-10-08

an enemy or to launch an ATTACK. 1hel pots'
are on swarm water always open to trace.
Sebastonol is only 900 miles from Constantinople,
The allies have in the near east large mlltafy
stores, as Lloyd George announced IN ms speech
to the house of commons The sovlets, III lhSii
various proposals to restore relations Win 0rFa
Britain have insisted upon surrender or Wrahgei }
forces, thus admitting. the correctness Of lke
British prime minister's Characterization OF
Wrangels movements as formidable" Further
more the Communist central committee in MOSCOW
teegraphed to all it's branches on July 10 OF this
year:
"FIis (Wrangels) offensive has already caused
the soviet republic great difficulties Each success
of the general, the most modest one, deprlVes
Soviet Russia of great quantities of grain, coal ana
oil and spells spread of starvation, restitution
lack of fuel and destruction of transport Inc
Communist party should understand that a llqulda-
ton of General Wrangel's undertaking is an an
solute necessity for Soviet Russia"
AS fighting force the new army will depend
mainly on the Cossacks. 1t WIS Denkine's failure
to hold the allegiance of these warriors coupled
with endless dissension behind his lines among his
politicians that wrecked his hopes Of overthrow
Ing the soviet.
Wrangels arrangement with the Cossacks al
lows for their complete independence in their DO
nestle and civil affairs. According to an agree
ment made on April 10 Of this year the Hetman OF
the Don Cossacks recognizes Wrangel as highest
military chief in return for this autonomy and
Wrangel agrees to consult the Hetman on all ne
gotiations with foreign powers on questions per.
tanning to Cossack troops and territories
Thus Wrangel begins by avoiding the great mis.
take of Denikine. He seeks cooperation OF az
foes of the bolsheviki, but not domination over
them
"My slogan is" he said with whomsoever you
please but for Russia
He has before him the lesson of the SCATTERING
of Denikine's hopes, in whose campaigns he playet
a brilliant part What the causes of that failure
were, he himself has put thus
Summing them up, it may be said that strategy
was sacrificed to politics, and those politics were
no good at ALL Instead of uniting all the forces
that made it their aim to combat bolshevlsm, and
instead of pursuing one Russian policy, without
any party affiliations, there was Volunteer army
policy a sort of private politics whose leaders saw
in all that did bear the stamp of the Volunteer
army enemies of Russia. They fought the bolshe-
Wiki and they fought the Ukrainians, Georgians
and Azerbaijans And it would not have taken
much to have started war with the Cossacks, too,
who composed half of our army and with their
blood cemented the connection with the regular
troops the battlefield.
The territories of the Cossacks were engulfed
in the sweep of the Red armies toward the Cauca-
sus, They represent STILL however, according to
their spokesman in Paris, V. A. Kharlamov, a
force of several scores of thousands of fighting
men.
AS for the attitude of the Cossacks toward boil
shevist rule, M. Kharlamov says:
"The democracy of Europe should remember
this: The Cossacks are unable to accept the So
Wet regime: they organically incapable of be-
coming Communists. The Cossacks are in their
overwhelming majority thrifty farmers. There is
no such thing as Cossack proletariat in existence
The Cossack is by nature an individualist holding
very dear his personal liberty. Not in vain did
the revolution affect the Cossacks They are going
to defend their freedom, their rights and liberties
with all their might"