Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-08 | Page 11 | Ask America to Aid Russia

ASK AMIGA TO I RUSSIA WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. Further and immediate aid from the allied and American Amer-ican governments in ridding Russia of Bolshevik control and re-establishing order is asked in an appeal addressed to President Wilson by the consolidated Russian provisional government at Omsk and delivered to Secretary Lansing today by Boris Bakhmetieff, Russian ambassador ambassa-dor to the United States. 0 After describing the reign of terror inaugurated in-augurated in central Russia by the Bolshevik! Bol-shevik! and asserting that control by this element is made possible only through German inuencc, the appeal says aid already extended to Russia by the allies will be in vain of "the new help arrives too late." It adds that every hour of delay "threatens with innumerable calamities calam-ities Russia, the allies and other nations." na-tions." The provisional government expects the aid of the allies and the United States and "considers itself in the right to demand insistently such help," says the appeal, which is signed by Nicholas Avksentieff, president of the provisional government, and PeLer Vologodsky, premier. pre-mier. "It is evident that the exit of Russia from the number of belligerents and the process of dismemberment which it is suffering has a deep influence on the fate of all the other countries," said a paraphrase para-phrase of. the appeal, made public at the Russian embassy. "It is to the head of the great American Amer-ican democracy, recognized apostle of peace and fraternity of the nations, that we appeal,'.' says the appeal. "All aid already al-ready extended to Russia by the allies would be in vain if the new help should arrive too late, or in insufficient quantity. quan-tity. Every hour of delay threatens with Innumerable calamities Russia, the allies and other nations.".