Show GRAND DUKE URGES INTERVENTION I i IN RUSSIA By Associated Press I PARIS March Former Grand Duke Alexander who arrived in Paris recently from the I Crimea told the Associated Press toI today to- to day that unless armed allied intervention I tion In Russia began at once the situation situation sit sit- I in Russia would b become come so hopelessly desperate that It would take years to restore a semblance of order lin in eastern Europe The former grand II rulee ruke who is a law brother of the former emperor continued I I I do not ask the allies to fight for us We merely ask them them t to tk k keep p order In the territories wrEsted from fromI Bolshevism by the governments already already al- al I ready fighting the soviet I carne came here In January In an attEmpt attempt at- at tEmpt to help my country as a private citizen I thought I would find justice and sympathy at the peace conference but I have been disappointed as I found visible only personal intrigues party politics and national egotism PASSPORT REFUSED I requested President Wilson to receive receive re- re me but he replied through his I secretary that he was too busy with peace conference matters What matter matter mat mat- ter can be more momentous to the peace conference than the Russian problem I asked to be allowed to go goto goto to England but was refused a passport passport pass pass- port yet they received Kerensky I dare not request permission to visit America not wishing to invite a re- re buff I Referring to the proposed conference on the Princes Prince's islands the grand d e said that the proposal was a mistake as the are claiming that the allied have recognized them because they feared the Bolshevik Bol- Bol SHOT WITHOUT TRIAL On January 25 the grand duke duko continued seven Jays days after atter the I Princes Prince's islands proposal the Bolsheviks Bolsheviks' viks' viks led my two brothers and two I cousins from the fortress of St. St Peter Petel and St. St Paul and shot them without I trial They never would have dared to do this unless they had been sure of the moral Support afforded by the semi recognition by the peace conference confer confer- ence Had President ent Wilson come out strongly and surely with a repudiation of and anel of the viki it would have encouraged the governments warring against them BOlshevism will be the devil In the future futuro league of nations It is my opinion that the movement Is kept alive only as a means of blackmail against the allies When Germany has used the Sparta Sparta- cans to the utmost to blackmail the entente into sending fOOd and anel granting merciful conditions of I peacE Sparta Sparta- I ci m l |