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Show I MOSLEMS TOO LATE. Nothing would have more complicated the disturbed conditions in eastern Europe a month ago than the Moslem proclamation in favor ot Bolshevism, had the religious fanatics issu. d their appeal it that time. With the defeal of the Russian forces on the boundarj line of Poland, the red arm may have been rendered comparatively harmless At the height of the Boviel Buccess a declaration that Islam was, in favor of Bolshevism might have spread the flames of anarchy to I the heart of India and hac forced Great Britain to make overtures and negotiate compromises with Leriine There is no warfare so enduring and bitter as that hacked by religious hysteria But with the heating hack of the soviet armies from around War-saw War-saw and the hottlmg up, between Prussia and the Vistula river, of a large part of the defeated forces, the red peril is beginning to dis- I appear ami tne fliosiem can 10 arm-s is 100 mic iv cua mmwk worry in the capitals of western Europe The turning of the tide ot battle seems to have been accomplished by the same hrilliant French strategists who, at the first battle of th-Marne. th-Marne. taught Von Moltke to respect the recoiling power of the men of France. When General Wcygand arrived on the scene of battle, the Bolsheviki were moving over the country east of Warsaw with the irresistible sweep of a prairie fire Quickly there was a realignment of the Polish troops, and swiftly a surprise attack was made, and suddenly the Russians discovered they were outmaneuvered and cut off. No longer is the soviet government in the position of a dictator nf the terms of peace. A month ago Lenine might have exacted any reasonable performance from the Poles, as to 'boundary lines, disarmament disarm-ament and trade Now the Poles' must be the conveyors of mercy if a generous treatment is to be accorded. |