Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-12 | Page 23 | Soviet Leaders Dare Not Quite

SOVIET LEADERS DARE NOT QUIT Peace and Demobilization of Army Are Terrors Feared by Red Rulers (By International News Service) LONDON', Auk. -'.'i Jim a,s Imperialism Im-perialism l:illed ezarlsm so will Imperialism Im-perialism be the death of Russian S4victlsm, la the prediction made to the Associated Presi correspondent oy If. Pllp, the ESsthonlan foreign minister minis-ter In London, in analyr.lnK the consequences con-sequences of the Bolshevik offensive In Poland. While foreign minister last year, M Pllp pitted his wits agalni the! BplShevlkl at Dorpat and he Is regarded re-garded as on of the lust authorities! in Europe on Rutstau political ami economic conditions-, In common with representatives, here of other ELuasiaii border slates, M Pllp Is watching with profound I concern the developments in POlana The BolsEevlki are fighting Poland Po-land with the allies ammunition, I which thtv captured from Pcnlkinoj and Kolchak." he raid. " This Is now i almost exhausted and Itussla cannot I renew it " Ilscusslng th insslbility of an ac-tack ac-tack hv the Bolshevist on Esthonla, ; M. Pllp said: "We 'are ready for them. The I E: thonlan frontier Is now closed by j our troops except the gates through Which we are trading With Kussla. The soviet government must know if lit succeeds in obtaining a fo.thold In Esthonla the allies would instantly cut I 1 off Russia from the vitally needed I supplies n li now receiving througn : us. We might perish but soviet! ! Russian would go down with us" M. Pllp asserted that Russia's economic condition was rapidly ratting i worse becuuse this season's crop wasj 'a failuii. He said it wis not un- likely that the cities will soon be wholly depopulated. "The soviet government dare not' 'reduce its enormous army," he con-1 eluded. "I nemployment Is now a critical problem throughout the wholp of Russia and If the men who, as soldiers are comparatively well cared for, were thrown on their own resources re-sources a revolution would result The 'chief terror which the soviet rulers have to faco Is peace and demobilization"