New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-13
Reds Mobilize
100000 Troops
To Help Kennal
Concentration in Armenia
May Be New War Threat
Or Sop to Opponents of
Agreement With England
Internal Unrest Spreads
New Policies Won't Revive
Industry Or Feed People,
Bolsheviki Are Warned
BIZ Wireless to The Tribuns

copyright, 1921. New York Tribune 1nc
BERLIN, July 12.-More than 100. ooo
troops, comprising the 18th and 9Th
Soviet armies, have been concen-
trated by the Bolshevik government
IN southern Russia In addition. the
l3th Soviet Army soon will be dis
patched to the same region. obvious
ly with the idea of cooperating with
Renal Pasha, Turkish Nationalist lead
err VINO Is now engaged in active hos
tllltles with the Greeks. This infor-
nation was obtained here TODAY bv
the Tribune correspondent from au-
thentic sources. Reports that new
hed armies have been formed in Aver
ballan and Georgia likewise have been
confirmed.
These armies are being concentrate d
on the borders of Armenia. The Boil
shev'kl have established Southern
Grand Headquarters at Novorossisk
from which they are directing OPERA
tons calculated to assist the Turkish
Natlonalists and further embarrass the
position of the Allies in Turkey and
the Near East. Twelve thousand Red
cavalrymen are concentrated at Ere
rum, while 10000 infantrymen are at
Trebizond.
Concessions to Asia's Demands
This heavy concentration of Red
troops IN the Caucasus and Armenia
followed a demand of Asiatic dele.
gates to the Congress of the Third
lnternationale, who, in the course of
the sessions, bitterly assailed the
Soviet governments agreement with
England, by which the Bolsheviki
obligated them selves to give ur
propaganda in the Near East. as
a "betrayal' of the Eastern peoples
10 what extent, however, Bolshevik
troops Will cooperate with Kemal it is
difficult to say.
The stand of the Asiatic delegates
against the agreement with England
~ is oelIeved here, may have alarmed
the Bosheviki to the extent that thew
simply may be making an armed dem,
onstration to appease those that have
protested. On the other hand, recent
declarations of the Soviet leaders
as we'll as proceedings in the Third
lnternationale, point to Bolshevik
plan for new military enterprises il
order to keep up the revolutionary
fervor among their own followers and
cement into renewed solidarity the
groups forming the Third Interna-
tionale
The inability of the Soviet govern
ment, despite it's desperate efforts to
bring some semblance of order into
the hopelessly disorganized internal
situation of Russia, has brought it
to a crisis, according to an informan mt
OF the Tribune correspondent, WHO has
just arrived in Berlin from Moscow
he declared that the Soviet govern
ment is seeking relief from the grow
ing opposition from within in new
mllltaristic ventures. Soviet news.
papers reaching here reflect the deep.
ly pessimistic attitude of the Soviet
offlcials with regard to the economic
situation of Russia and the prospects
OF Improvement in the near future.
Lack of Fuel Starves Industry
Not only is the harvest poor. but
there is an almost complete absence OF
coal and naphtha, which the Bolshevik
officials fear will paralyze industry
Neither does the Soviet press place
much hope on the new economic
policies of Lenine. For example. the
Petrograd Biednota states that it is
quite hopeless to think that the de.
naturalization of small industries anc
the return of these to basis of free
trade is likely to repair the damage
represented in the disorganization OF
large industries. This paper says
that the only hope of averting 6
crash lies in increasing the production
CT frewood
The Pravda demands an increase ir