12 APRIL 1919, Page 1

It may be, as a great many well-informed persons believe,

that a comparatively small but extremely well-equipped force could bring about a collapse of Bolshevism in a short time. If that is not so, the Government ought to act very circumspectly, for we maintain our opinion that another war on the grand scale is quite out of the question. One way or the other, the Allies must show what their policy is without delay. The difficulties of reinforcing the Allied force in Northern Russia do not exist in the South of Russia, where the French and Greek troops have just been compelled to retire from Odessa. The Dardanellee are open and the Black Sea does not freeze.