Show I i Other Points of View WHAT CAN c. WU WE E DO TOll FOiL RUSSIA f t The allies have still to frame a n definite answer to the tho tremendous question What Vhal Is to be done about Russin Russia Rus Rus- sin sia Upon the solution of or this question the tho future courso course of the tho worlds world's history may depend It will vilI not suffice to meet and antl the tho Germans nn anft nn their confederates In the mighty struggle struggle from the Pla d to the Lys Ls The enemy nem arc are filtering filtering- through thc the Russian gateways to tho the cast east and their dreams of ot world domination may yet et be realized It If we leave Russia helpless and undefended President Wilson obviously meant to make a binding I declaration for the nations wh when n he said I r Intend to stand b by Russia as well vell as b by France Through all the gloom of the last terrible year ear he has repeatedly expressed cx- cx pressed his firm faith In the future of the Russian people It Is clear th that t certain definite decisions are arc at nt hand and that In all aU that Is done dono the views of President Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son arid and of the tho American nation will be a predominant and growing growIng- factor The rhe he broad situation Is that the Germans are arc irad gradually 11 overrunning southern Russia an and that farther tarther north the they are acquiring a 3 paramount position which ma may soon extend extend ex ex- tend from Crom the Arctic to Ukraine Though we have havo barred them from Crom the Suez canal and the Persian gulf ul they arc finding a fresh pathway Into Asia They are arc gaining control of the Black sea pea they are sending their Turkish dupes Into the Caucasus and before beCore vcr very long Ions we shall hear of or them thorn beyond the Caspian sea en and ln In the states of Russian Turkestan The They aim among amons- other things at obtaining access to Ar Afghanistan with the object of or stirring up strife In India but the clue to all these movements Is that Russia is derelict The essence of oC the whole problem Is the tho salvation of or Russia To that supreme purpose all nil the efforts of ot the tho allies In eastern Europe and In A Asia 13 must be directed Tak the question of the Ukraine and Us corn The Tho Germans and Aus Austrians are getting goetting little or no corn from Crom the Ukraine When him their troops tr try to raid the Ukraine villages they are aro even met with machine guns Juns The Germans German have promised lar large e consignments of ot UI Ukraine corn to Denmark and other neutrals and the they cannot fulfill their promises which probably docs does not trouble them very much The Ukraine Ukraine- Is an empty empt granary this year hut but howlong how bow howlong long will it remain BO so When tho the peasants of or the Ukraine are enslaved b by their German taskmasters as assuredly they will be the Germans will get all tho the corn th the they want want If IC the enemy derive sm small lt profit from their Invasion of western Russia this year ear year they the they will repay themselves a next year car and for a hundred years ears to come unless tho allies act We Ve see no reason why hy the allies should not announce their intention of sending help to the Russian nation an and not to any part party Whoever In Russia Is found foun to be ex exercising ex- ex authority might become a means of communication tion To that extent It would bo be possible to exchange views with the Bolshevists while the they exercised control In particular regions q I This his would l be le e a beginning and thereafter thereafter thereafter there there- after the allies would have ve to hI he ho guided h by th the course of events It Tt would have havo to bo le clearly laid down that the allies have not tho the smallest Intention of ot subscribing to Bolshevist doctrines Their sole object Is tho the rescue and salvation of Russia to which ma may he be added the preservation ration of or Russian unit unity The complacent Idea Iden of or many onlookers Is 18 that the world orM will bo be safe even e If Ir Russia up Into a number of or little Independent states There could be no greater ter delusion und and the nation which fought foucht the tho greatest civil war In history will readily recognize recognize rec Tee this basic truth The hulk bulk of or the thc Russian dominions dominions dominions do do- minions ought to remain as Indivisible as aR the United States There Thero Is no other pathway to safety no oth other r barrier to German expansion eastward London eastward London Dally Daily Mall |