, 1920-02-05
Idea of Russia for the Russians
to Govern as They Please
Gains Roadway.
GOMPERS SCORES BOLSHEWSM
Germany objects to ExtraditIon Of Ae-
cused Officers and Soldiers-Jugo-
SIavs Reject Adriatic Compromise
Edwin T. Meredith Appointed
Secretary of Agriculture.
BY EDWARD w. PickARp.


misunderstanding Siberia-for the
Russians, to do with as they please
n govern as they please, is the slo-
gan that seems likely to win in the
vast realm that the czars once ruled.
And though just now the bolsheviki
are the controlling faction in almost
all of European Russia, and in much
of Siberia, they are discarding much
of their ''bolshevikiness" and other
factions are coming around to he be-
lief that, If they cease fighting, he
most radical leaders will speedily lose
their power and the country will set
tie down under a liberal government
and will be able to make peace with
the rest of the world. In southern
Europe the Don Cossacks are still
holding out, though with waning
chances of success. In Siberia, when
the Czech forces have departed, the
liberal Russians will find themselves
opposed only by the reactionaries who
have the support of Japan. The latest
cables from Vladivostok tell of an
abortive revolution there by soldiers
who feared they were to be disarmed
by the Japanese troops, and therefore
started an uprising. against h Ill
erals who had planned to take over
the government peacefully. The reb-
els were taken prisoner by General
Rozanoff's student officers, after
which Rozanoff proclaimed amnesty
for all political prisoners and let the
peasant prisoners go home with their
arms. The Siberians, 1t is said, be-
lieve that their country will join hands
with the Moscow soviet government
as soon as the Japanese hav left. and
that bolshevism Will then rapidly dis
appear. How o the Japanese troops
will depart is not known. The Ameri-
can evacuation is already under way.
Delayed dispatches from South Rus
STA say the Cossack federation which
met in Ekaterinodar decided that they
would continue to fight the bolsheviki
unless their independence were rec
ognized. They wanted Denikine to
remain as their commander in chief
with the understanding that he should
have no voice In civil affairs. This
proposition he probably rejected, as
later dispatches said he and his staff
had taken refuge on a British vessel
at Constantinople. Meanwhile the boil
sheviki moving westward from the
Caspian were threatening the Cossacks
in the flank and rear.
Admiral Kolchak. 1t develops. sur
rendered to the Siberian revolution
lists on the advice of General Janin,
the Czech commander. in order to
avert a fight in which the Czechs
might have been annihilated. Kol-
chalk is to be tried by court-martial.
Russian officers under Semenoff's com
mand are so enraged against the
Czechs that they have formed a league
whose slogan is "Have Janin's blood"
In England organized labor contin-
ues to urge complete and immediate
peace with soviet Russia, at the same
time disclaiming any belief in the
soundness of the political and social
theories on which the soviet govern
ment is based.
Realizing how bolshevist propa-
Randa In America is imperiling the
American Federation of Labor, its
president, Samuel Gompers, has come
out with an article in which he con-
dennis bolshevism Completely, finally
and for all time" He thinks that the
propaganda which emanates from
those who say they are quite free from
Russian influences and Russian pay
is especially dangerous, and he decries