Arizona republican., 1920-01-28

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 That is the way Captain Alllire summed up bolshevism. giving g. first hand account, a tale of horror almost unbelievable. of the working of that mighty disease which withers all 1t touches And if that disease is not crushed. in Russia. he warns that 1t will have to be crushed in this country lster and as Captain Alllire says. God help us if we wait to fight It here.''
 Allied intervention in Russia is the only means to defeat bolshevism and to save the rest of the world from it's ravishes. in the opinion of Captain Al kire the first American to see bolshev- ism at first hand and return with the truth concerning it. Allied interven- tion, he declared. is the only remedy. force to crush disease that lives by force Bolshevism is contagious dis ease. said the captain. and until It IS stamped out. there can be no peace upon the earth. The longer the world waits to stamp it out, the more danger that bolshevism will engulf the world.
 Tale of Terror
 For an hour yesterday afternoon Captain Alkire told a reporter the story of what he had seen in months of work in south Russia. months spent in special car on the very heels on Dene- kine's volunteer army fighting the bol- sheviki. months in which, time after tune. t3ptain Afklfe ana HIS fniSSloH entered city a few hours after the bolsheyiI<i have evacuated it, leaving wanton death and destruction as thelr work For an hour he told the story, told it as a man will who has seen a loathsome disease and come to hate it with all his soul and at the end of that hour, not nearly all the story had been told.
 The only time that Captain Alkire paused in his narrative was when he remarked:
 President Wilson is the most un- popular man in Europe today. We were made fools of at the peace con ference
 After eight or nine months of Red Cross service in France, Captain All kire was sent to south Russia in charge of a Red Cross mission, and incident ally in charge Of a shipload> of sup plies. He landed there July 2S, and inn mediately the mission entered a special car provided for them in their work with the volunteer Russian army of General Denekine. In that car the lit ale group of Red Cross men travelled fir months. living in it. travelling in 1t throughout southern Russian on the very heels of the advancing anti-bol- shevik forces. Captain Alkire was with General Denekine'S army until Decem- Der ,, when he boarded one of the three American destroyers on duty in the Black sea, for passage to Constan- tinop1e. He then went to Italy on an Italian transport, went by train to Paris and Havre. and there caught the liner home. Landing in New York, he boarded train the next day and came direct home to Phoenix.
 @kick of the Reds"
 .I am 100 per cent better American Captain AlI<ire yesterday. and he meant it. Since I left I've been in France in England. in Italy. in Greece, in Turkey, in Armenia, in Russia, and now can appreciate America
 Keep America for Americans. It's the one country in the world. If the red flaggers of the bolshevists don't like it, kick them out. Keep America for Americans
 When Captain Alkire was in south ern Russia the Russian volunteer army contained perhaps as many as Soo,oo0 men. The army had been equipped and supplied as we'll as possible by Britain, which spent half a billion dollars on it. The equipment included even tanks and airplanes. About 1000 officers and in structors were also furnished by Great Britain, which of all countries. Captain Alkire said. realizes~the danger that turks in letting bolshevism hold sway even in Russia. though now France, too. is beginning to realize the gravity Of the situation.
 As TOT recent reports that General Dea4k!ne's army is sustaining severe leyerses. Captain Alkire believes the volunteer s-mys plight is not altogeth- CT bad as reported Even at that. he said, the volunteer army may die but the spirit of it will never die. for the fight against bolshevism will go on-
 Power By Terrorism
 ..Boishevism." said Captain Alkire. lis socialism gone wild. IL means terror, murder, anarchy. destruction, chaos. for personal gain. Ii keeps its power by mass terrorism There will be no peace until it is stampted out. and we must make up our minds to whip it either in Russia or here at home Allied intervention from south Russia, is the only means to crush it. Food conditions are not serious in south Russia which Captain -Alkire termed the richest undeveloped region in the world, rich agriculturally and teeming with opportunity for development
 There was a surplus of about TOO tons of grain, and the seasons crop was left to rot in the fields because it could not be transported. Captain Allire said. are very bad. In south Russia, in travelling about. the would see miles uponsfniles of shattered locomotives standing upon deserted tracks, see thousands of cars, half destroyed skeletons of cars for the most part. standing useless and