Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-02-05
ny Associated Press.

WASHINGTON. Feb. i-What T.
the true situation regarding the Iolshc.
wiki In Russia? Is the Lcnine.Trotsky
government lettering "a its fall. or Ia II
preparing a gigantic blow 10 hc stimuli.
tancously delivered early next sprin,
against Poland ana In British Asia?
This question Is causing the brows
az the State Department experts 10 Eur.
row with care. and members II the sen.
Rte foreign relations committee are Civ.
ing much thought 10 the situation.
Reports from Paris. London. Berlin
and Copenhagen regarding the Russian
situation could not possibly h. more
contradictory. ON January 10 cable
services published widely u "scurc head
statement that tho Russian soviet GOV
eminent will throw more than . .u00. OO0
Bolshevik soldiers ON The Russian boun-
darles In the early spring This state.
moni was founded on alleged reports ~
French military experts, presumably I'm
= Poland. but more likely IN some Paris
cafe. II the report was not DOWNRIGHT
fake" Such u gigantic drive ncccs.
sarily. II directed principally nj Poland.
would be almost certain to oycrwhelm
that country IN short campaign. un.
less the Poles received active French
and British support. or cyca German
support. General ludrndorf han antici
patcd the alleged counting campaign by
offering to raise "A German army tc
fight with the Poles against the Bolshc.
Wiki. and II Is said h. has actually made
the tender to the Allies Along with
the attack on Poland soviet armies
would be- launched against the British
IN Armenia. mad In this campaign /, II
probable the BOlshcyiki would receive
active assistance of the Turkish IA.
tionalist armics, now operating agains,
the Greeks
II the Soviet armies should uycrrun
Poland the only barrier between them
and France would then Dr. Germany. a
helpless Germany disarmcd by the Al.
lies, and a country which would have
TO either embrace govietiSm or bc Hwal.
lowed up by the nolshcviki az Poland
would IN cngulf,d No one. secs the
possibilities better than l.udcniorf. and
II must b. indeed blind French ar
British statesman who cannot vision
the outcome 81 the disappearance 81 the
Polish barrier. with this thrown down
tho Bolshcviki flo@l would sweep over
the remainder Of Europe and the
French and British would again have
their hacks To the wall"
This II one side ~ the picture. II
may and may not be- the true situation.
az mirrored by the startling dispatches
described.
The other side ~ the shield seems
quite different Some observers ~
European events here. men who are
particularly well informd on Old world
conditions. believe that the projected
offensive against Poland win never ma.
terializc. ana that the conditions and
preparations of the sovicts are grossly
exaggerated. Men like John Hays
Hammond. the famous mining expert.
'hhn whom there h no person In the
United States better Informed ON inter.
national affairs. believe that the i.eninc.
Trotsky government Is slowly but sure.
~ disintegrutlnG and win soon fan with
great crash, 20 be succeeded by real
republican government. Oscar r.
Crosby, former assistant secretary az
tho trrasury. agrees with Hammond
concerning the downfall ~ the Bolshe.