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Show oo SIGHT TOKIO, Dec. 2S.(Dy the Associated Associat-ed Press) The end of the war does not mean peace for "Russia, says Dr. Vaclav Girsa of the Czecho-Slovak National council who is now in Tokio. "Peace conferences will not be able to prevent the internal struggles in that disorganized state; that can only be accomplished by military decision, and can only bo the task of the Allies," added Dr. Girsa. Many divisions of Allied troops now are needed to, help Russia emerge from its chaos because, said Dr. Girsa, Gir-sa, morethan half of the Czecho-Slo-vak troops who were in Russia when ihe Brest -Li tovsk peace treaty was signed now are in. hospitals or in their graves. Dr. Girsa said the situation of his troops in Siberia has been well-night i insupportable. One division had been forced to hold for .a long time an immense im-mense front. It had been obliged to guard the railroad, the important places plac-es in Siberia, to organize the munition muni-tion factories and maintain order in all the towns. He quoted a Russian officer, from tho front as describing the situation thus: "I am an old soldier and have seen many military troubles but the efforts shown by the Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak soldiers in Siberia surpass all human forces, -and I can only say' that the men seem to have been carried tbovc their normal condition." Dr. Girsa said that his people feel that they must perish but they wish to fulfill their duty to the last. They have quite given up hope of effective military aid but they are determined to fight to tho last breath. He expressed ex-pressed the opinion that tho Russian nation would surprise the world by its powerful development in tho future. I He added: "We Czecho-Slovaks understand the Russian people. We have lived among them during all the great changes of the war and we feel sympathy for them. We can never forget the immense im-mense Eea of Russian blood which was shed during tho first three years of the war. Wc must not forget that a great majority of the Russian people have not said their last word. "In giving to the Russian army pro-lection pro-lection we had absolutely no aspiration for political power in Russia'but such a misunderstanding seems to have been our fate from the very beginning of the war. Even now we are called by the Russians 'the mysterious Cze-j Cze-j r:ho -Slovaks.' " Dr. Girsa said it was a fatal mis-) mis-) take to suppose Bolshevism te be a democratic movement Democracy en- ' 'deavors to organize and to rule the ' people according to human conscience; but the Bolsheviki stamp out the principles prin-ciples of mortality and culture. Bolshevism Bol-shevism was a collective title used for different political and social phenomena; pheno-mena; from the idealistic Utopia to the criminal and German propaganda forces. |