The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-16
Tells House Committee Poland
Must he Given Aid to With
stand BOIshveik Forces.
BAKER URGES AID BE SENT
Would Have Surplus Military
Supplies Forwarded to Hard
Pressed Little Republic.

washing eon, Jan. 15.-General reviy
al of war in Europe if Poland is IN
able to Withstand the Russian boil
sheyik armies, is not Improbable" Z"
General Bliss, who was a member of
the American peace delegation today
told the house ways and means com
mittee.
Poland fl the only bulwarix against
boIshevism said General Bliss who ap
peared before the committee to dis
euss the proposed loan of s15O.oO0,Ooo
for food relief in Europe.
Military experts are Of the growing
opinion tlat the Moscow govern
nlent win urn toward Polans.a Cen
eral Bliss said. adding that the Rus
slams outnumbered the Poles, were
well trained, well equipped and well
Ned while the Poles were poorly equip
he'd as to everything"
The allied governments, General
Bliss continued. should be called on by
the United States to give some Of their
military supplies TO the Poles if this
country establishes $150.000,000 of
credits for european countries to buy
food here.
Recommendations that the United
States furnish surplus military sup
plies to Poland to aid it in repelling
the westward advance of the bolshe-
vi< have been made to the state de-
nartment by Secretary Baker.
n making this announcement today
to Ahe house ways and means COM
mittee Mr.. Baker interrupted General
Tasler Fl. Hiss, FORMER member of
the supreme military council and the
American peace delegation, who had
told a1i@ committee that general re-
vivai of war in Europe was not i'm
probable" unless Poland could check
the Russian bolshevik armies.
The war secretary also said the al
lied governments We're considering
population in the government to aid
the Poles. General Bliss told the COM
mittee the Russian armies were far
better equipped than the Poles who
were 'the only bulwark against boil
shevism.r
Describing Poland as 'the possible
sIocw center, in Europe, General
Bliss @sclared that "a whole people are
Drought 10 starvation they make war
on @~oeighbor having food and so re
n@w e-e conflagration that we had
1sPo& bad died out"
lne holsheviks," General Bliss con-
tinued, are regaining coal oil and
grain lands fl the old Russian empire |
and viii soon be able TO care for them |
selves regard ess Of any blockade"
The committee is considering a pro-
posal Ny Secretary Glass to advance |
$i50,0o0,o00 to Poland, Austria and other |
such a loan were made, the allied gov
ernments should be required to aid
Poland in a military way. General
Bliss said.
Military men believe boIsheviki will
not try to press eastward beyond
Lake Baikal to fight the japanese,
General Bliss said, and that instead OF
sending armies toward India or Tur-
key &hey would attempt, militant
propaganda" there. This. he pointed
out, indicated a westward movement
OF the bolshey khan armies.
Possibility of Poland pres ssing
against the Russians also was empha-
sized by General Bliss, who said the
peace conference delayed fixing the
eastern boundary of Poland until De- |
cember ?, and then only determined
upon a ten ntative boundary. Polish |
armies, he aided, then We're ESQ to |
$50 kilometres east of the eastern |
boundary OF their country.
The question is" he continued, |
whether the policy Of Poland will pre-
cipitate a situation dangerous to the
whole OF Europe"
The westward movement of the boil
sheviSi, however, is not the only fac
tor that might produce general revival
of war" General Bliss said, explain
ing that conditions within several Eu-
ropean countries might cause an up
heaval. Europeans, he said, are more
prone than Americans to blame their
home situation on their government
and without food shelter or turn would
turn against what might be the best
government"