The Russian Bolsheviks am still waging an aggressive war on
the non-Russian peoples, whose rights of Bell-determination they once admitted but now repudiate. As the German troops retire from Lithuania and Esthonia, the Bolsheviks advance, slaughtering the inhabitants and laying waste the country, just as if they were Germans. They have occupied Vilna and also Riga, and threaten the borders of Poland. His clearly a pro- found mistake to regard the Bolsheviks as people who will do no harm outside Russia if they are left alone. The Allies have not yet defined their policy in Russia, though they are pledged to protect Esthonia and Poland. It is conceivable that the patriotic elements in Russian society may yet combine to crush the hooligans led by Lenin and Trotsky. The Siberian Army of Admiral Koitchak is said to have defeated the Bolsheviks with great lose at Perm, in the Urals. Elsewhere the decent Russians seem unable to subordinate party differences to patriotism. Japan is withdrawing her troops from Siberia.
Previous page
