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Show A WORLD DISASTER IN SIGHT. I Reports from the Warsaw front are to the effect that the Poles successfully have resisted the Bolshevik attacks on Warsaw, but ! with the announcement of tlii BUCCess comes the statement that the Polish command, to shorten the line, has ordered a retreat to the Bug and Brody has been evacuated Evidence continues to a cumulate cu-mulate indicating superior military strength on the side of the red terror and, if it develops the Poles cannot stand apamst the army of the soviet, soon a crisis will confront not only the Poles but the English and the French At present internal politics is preventing -rcnt Britain doing anything to stem the tide of the red menace. The labor organizations of England view the soviet government as a I victory over the despotism represented by the old order of things in Russia, which ground the plain people into serfdom, and they rr fuse to give their consent to any mtve to destrov or restrain the V The French are disposed to take some action as they see the possibility of the Bolshevik breaking through the buffer state of Poland, joining with the Germans and eventually causing a conflagration confla-gration which will be most difficult to check In his review of the situation, Frank H Simomls war historian, histor-ian, says: "It is now a question as to whether Bolshevism is to he checked at the Oder, the Elbe or the Rhine. Whether the allies of yester-daj yester-daj will fight the battle away from their frontiers or within them "The notion that words will avail has been dissipated. The idea that a direct peril can I" fought bj indirection has lcen destroyed. We hav Mnimt firsl ! dealing with Korniloff, then with Kol-fhak, Kol-fhak, Denikine and Yudeniteh, to use the large elements in Russia hostile to the reds to defeat them we have scut vast supplies and cx-i cx-i pended much monej But all of the Russian enemies of Lenine and Trotzky have been irrevocably defeated, all the anti-revolutionary i elements, reactionary and moderate ;dike, have fallen. The attempt at-tempt to bold the Russian revolution within its own boundaries falls with Poland. The famous cordon sanitaire, stretched from the Gulf of Finland to the Black sea, Prom Esthonia to Rumania, is a thing of yesterday Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania have made separate peaces with Russia, which means that the have no longer the power to resist and have become mere creatines of the reds, at their mercy, incapable of marching with the western nations Poland has gone down in ruin and there is left only Rumania . r "But tomorrow Rumania may disappear, too. threatened on the east by the reds, on the north by the Hungarians, who are quite like-I like-I ly to recall Bela Kun and exile Horthj now that Bolshevism is ad-l ad-l vancing, and by the Bulgarians on the south Moreover if Rumania : is to be saved the sahation can be achieved onl by the immediate dispatch of troops to the Dniester allied troops', French, British and J American, as well as Italian I "The collapse of Poland resembles precisely the fall of Serbia I five years ago, when allied troops, which might have maintained the Danube barrier, were sent to Gallipoh instead, sent upon an impos-sfble impos-sfble adventure, while the Germans, watching their chance, suddenly sudden-ly overwhelmed Serbia and opened their own road to the Golden Horn. It was Gallipoh which led ultimately to the collapse of Rus-I sia. cut off from all effective allied support It is the blunder of Gallipoli which must be remembered oow when we are facing the latest of all its direful t onsequeni es. If the victory won in the world war is to be preserved it is necessary nec-essary now to send armies against the Bolshevists, not await their arrival at the frontiers of the western nations." |
