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Show RUSSIA SHOULD BE AIDED. Kolchak's army, which has been fighting back the Bolsheviki, is yielding ground because the allied governments are without decision (..'! ; as to whether they should attempt to solve the interna! affairs of i j Russia. The Standard, from the day that Lenine and Trotzky, as the leaders 'of the uprising, disclosed they were laboring to help the forces of the central powers by holding out false promises to the people of Russia, has been in favor of using the soldiers of not only Europe but of America to dispossess those men of power and give to untrammeled Russia an opportunity to decide on some stable form of government. The Bolsheviki element has held control by resorting to much the same methods as were employed by the czar. Secret plots, assassination, assassina-tion, terrorizing, have beeYi practical, until the masses of Russians have been held as firmly under the lash of oppression as they were when the Nihilists sought to throw off the nightmare of horror and were whipped c!ovti by tyranny. That the Teutons continue to see in Bolshevism a promise of the restoration of German prestige is disclosed by reports from Vilna, Russia, from where a cable message conveys this information. It is reported here on good authority that trainloads of German Ger-man soldiers in Russian uniforms, with the Russian double eagle on their caps, are being hurried to Courland. Polish scouts and secret service men have been reporting persistently that some of the German soldiers, professing to be Spartacans, are planning to join the Bolsheviki in an attack on the Polish lines. From the direction of Minsk it is reported that while the city, in anticipation of a Polish attack, is being abandoned by the Bolshevist Bol-shevist commissioners and some of their followers, new regiments of red guards are being brought up and that large forces are being massed near the city. According to an official statement yesterday by the British war office the Polish army has entered Minsk. News of the fall of Bela Kun has stirred the determination of , the Polish generals to strike hard against the Russian Bolsheviki while thei rmorale is weakened by the events in Hungary. The number of desertions from the ranks of the Bolsheviki opposite the Poles is said to be increasing constantly. The one big task in Russia today is to suppress the Red Guard and allow the people as a whole to determine their course of action, with out fear of the intimidating power of the bayonet. |