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Show RECOGNITION FIRST. 'Imperative need of money for tiie Siberian railroad is likely to hasten recognition rec-ognition of the Omsk government as the government of all non-Bolshevist Russia. The question has assumed serious se-rious proportions in Paris, and the foreign for-eign offices of the great powers represented repre-sented at the peace conference have been repeatedly urged' to find -sonio means of supplying a credit, estimated at twenty million dollars, without waiting for tho formal recognition of the Kol-chak Kol-chak government, which is expected to be extended soon after the adjournment adjourn-ment of the Paris conference. The Siberian Si-berian railroad requires this fund to maintain operation, and, as the line is needed for military purposes by tiie anti-Bolshevist government, the reason for urging the desired credit is obvious. The banks of Great Britain, France and Italy are adverse to the diversion of any money from the immediate needs of their countries, it is said, although they are willing to arrange credits with the approval of their governments where such credits will show immediato returns re-turns and benefits. The Siberian railroad rail-road loan offers no such inducement, it is declared", for profits cannot be expected ex-pected until the Bolsheviki are overthrown over-thrown and a stable and responsible government established in Russia. The governments cannot legally make the loan without first recognizing the Omsk government. Bankers of the United States have expressed ex-pressed a willingness to make the desired de-sired loan at once, regardless of the absence of a prospect for quick returns, providing the administration will recognize rec-ognize the Omsk government; otherwise, other-wise, they say, there can be no responsible re-sponsible person or organization to guarantee guar-antee the loan and its proper utilization. In view of tiie steady progress of the Kolchak government toward its objective, objec-tive, the overthrow of tho Bolshevist rule in Russia, the extension of financial finan-cial aid to the Omsk cabinet would seem to be the' part of wisdom. At this moment mo-ment Admiral Kolchak seems to be the hope of the rational elements in the former for-mer empire. Nothing vhich will tend to assist him in overcoming the red revolutionists rev-olutionists should be left undone. |