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Show sure that somebody has had access to tho files of tho department of state" or, as is regarded more likely, the files of the American peace commission in Paris. Tho stolen documents are believed be-lieved to have been brought to this country by some courier in sympathy with the Bolshevist regime in Russia. At any rate, the publication of tho Bul-Iard Bul-Iard cable seems to have been made with the purpose of discrediting tho all-Russia leader, Kolchak, whose recognition recog-nition by the allies has been desired by the clement combating the Lenine-Trotzky Lenine-Trotzky government in Petrograd. Any opinion which would discredit Kolchak would, of course, be exploited by the pro-Bolshevists in America, who happen to be numerous enough to warrant con-corn con-corn on the part of soberminded Americans. Amer-icans. The department of justice is undertaking under-taking to locate the parties responsible for the theft of the official cablegrams. When the thieves are located it will in all probability develop that they are cheek by jowl with the forces of social dislocation now traveling tho road to ruin in Russia. STOLEN FROM FILES. Perhaps the only sensational feature of the publication in a New iTork journal of the cablegram to Colonel House in Paris from "Undersecretary of State Polk bearing on the Russian situation is the fact that this, with at least one other official communication, in some manner has been stolen from the department de-partment of state. Of itself the cable to House conveys nothing more than the opinion of one Bullard that recognition recog-nition of Admiral Kolchak 's government govern-ment by the allied powers would not be desirable, Billiard giving his reasons rea-sons for entertaining this belief. Undersecretary Un-dersecretary Polk transmitted the opinion opin-ion to House with instructions to deliver de-liver it to George Creel. It requires a deal of ingenuity to twist this ca.blc into an expression of American official opinion of Kolchak 's merits. It is nothing of t lie sort. Much more important is the disclo- |