Before ending this brief summary of the much more hopeful
situation in Russia we must mention the appeal which has been issued by the Anti-Bolshevik Russians of Archangel. The appeal, addressed to the Allies and America, implores us not to abandon them, and points out that the Bolsheviks, having scorned the people's will as expressed by the Constituent Assembly, threaten to compel the Archangel people by means of bayonets and machine-guns to acknowledge Bolshevik rule. Though the British authorities have arranged to leave Arch- angel, we cannot of course abandon to massacre those who trusted in us and fought on our side. It will not do to say that we are under no legal obligation as we never undertook to do more than help temporarily. The best hope now seems to lie in the
new move against Petrograd combined with the brilliant advance of General Denikin. The Archangel danger may be disposed of elsewhere.
