22 MARCH 1919, Page 2

Russia is still the hapless prey of civil war and

famine. The patriotic Russian forms in the east and south-east, the Estho- nians in the north-west, and the Allies in the Archangel region seem to have checked the Bolsheviks. On the other hand, Trotsky's mercenaries appear to be gaining ground in the Ukraine and on the Black Sea ooaat, where Odessa itself is threatened. The inhabitants of Petrograd and Moscow are starving, and the country is in utter disorder. The Bolsheviks oan destroy but they cannot govern.