The Daily Herald, the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian
published last Saturday a document which is said to have fallen into the hands of the Bolsheviks at Archangel. It describes an interview alleged to have been granted by Mr. Churchill in May of last year to a Russian officer, General Golovin, who was the agent of M. Sazonoff. M. Sazonoff, of course, was formerly the Tsar's Minister of Foreign Affairs. General Golovin in his account of the interview says that Mr. Churchill, "fearing the criticism of British workers," and "perhaps also" the criticism of Mr. Lloyd George, enjoined the strictest secrecy ; that Mr. Churchill, while pleading in Parliament for fresh forces to ensure the success of the Archangel evacuation, was really planning a further British advance into Russia ; that Mr. Churchill pro- mised to help General Yudeniteh's campaign in every possible way ; that he promised to help General Denikin secretly, though he could not do so openly ; that he intended to ask for another 24 million pounds nominally for the evacuation, but really to pursue his plans ; and that he declared that in all his Russian policy he bowed to the authority of Admiral Koltchak.
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