Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-27
RUSSIA WAVES
FLAG OF PEACE
BEFORE ALLIES
Warfare on Big Scale Ends as
SOviets See Their Recog-
milton Near.
INQUIRY IS UNDER WAY

LONDON, Feb. 27.-with the soviet
government nearer formal recognition by
the allies than at any other time since it
was set up by Nicholai Lenine and Leon
Trotzky in the summer of 1917, warfare
on a big scale has ceased in Russia.
The soviet is maintaining five power
full armies under arms, but the scattered
fighting now reported consists mainly of
patrol encounters or clashes between iso-
lated factions of the bolsheviks and the
anti-red Russians.
A truce reigns throughout northern
Russia, where the soviet is in control
Of all the Archangel and Murmansk dis
tricts. great bolshevik army has been
concentrated near the Polish frontier,
but there are indications that Poland and
Moscow will soon make peace upon terms
approved by the allies.
ONLY ONE ZONE
OF REAL FIGHTING.
Another bolshevik army has been con-
centrated in Bessarabia and has been
threatening Roumania with invasion, but
belief is expressed that the allied sug-
gestions that the states bordering on
Russia make immediate peace with the
Moscow soviet will actually hold up Of
fensive operations in that theater Patrol
nave OScA IcpOElCu IEOIu LAe
Dneister river line, where the Rouman-
ians have prepared Notifications.
The only war zone where fighting of
any real Importance has been reported
recently is between the SEES of Azov and
the Caspian sea, where the scattered rem
nants OF Gen. Denikin's old army are
stationed. The soviet forces have been
extending their area of occupation and
claim to have taken the important city of
Rostov on Don.
lull exists upon the Siberian front,
but the bolshevikf have large forces upon
the Chinese frontier, according to of
fetal reports to the British war office.
SEEKING TRUTH
ON BOLSHEVISM.
The labor bureau o. the league of
nations has already begun to collect evil
dence on the internal situation In Rus
STA and the workings of the bolshevik
government at Moscow, 1t was announced
today by Albert Thomas, former So
eialist member of the cabinet and French
representative on the international labor
organization formed under the league
Of nations. II. Thomas revealed for the
first time that this work has been
quietly going on for some tine.
Zone of the reasons for the turmoil
IN the countries of western Europe and
one of the causes of the fascination ~
boishevism to many minds is the fact
that we are utterly in the dark as to
what it really means" said NJ. Thomas.
The labor bureau, on its own initia-
tive, has been collecting and weighing
evidence and Information from Russia
for some time, meanwhile inquiring into
the moral and material status of the
Russian workers
ITO insure return to moral stability
in the west it is essential we should
know what is going on. The world is
thirsting for the truth. Nothing is 50
productive of mischief as ignorance and
obseurity.
IF the proposed mission to Russia
does nothing more than to make clear
certain facts about bolshevism, 1t will
serve an invaluable purpose"
WILL EXCHANGE
WAR PRISONERS.
That Germany and Russia have reached
an agreement for the exchange Of war
prisoners is indicated by advices from
Berlin. One dispatch said Germany has
agreed to run weekly trains through from
Berlin to Moscow to carry the repatriated
Germans and Russians. The German ma
iority socialists are reported to be advo-
eating resumption of diplomatic relations
with soviet Russia on the condition that
Moscow does not interfere in German
domestic affairs.
A press report that Germany has
reached an agreement with Russia to ex-
change farm machinery for Russian
grain was authoritatively denied in Ber-
In. German business men are said to
be mistrustful of resuming commercial
relations with Russia, fearing the Rus
slams may not be able to pay for German
goods.
Maxim Litvinof. Russian soviet repre-
sentative at Copenha gen, said. in an inter
view that the Moscow government will
send a trade commission abroad to re-
organize Russia's foreign trade. Head
quarters of the mission Will lac In Von-
don. If the allies will permit. he said