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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 119, 13 February 1920, Page 7

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RESTORATION OF RUSSIA

NOT BY FORCE, BUT TRADE AND COMMERCE BRITISH PREMIER'S FAITH (By Telegraph-Press Association-Cojiyriftlit (Rec. February 12, 8.:)S p.m.) London, Fc'bruary 12. In the course of his speech at the (.pcning sitting of the House of Commons, tins Prime Minister. Mr. Lloyd George, said Hint Russia must bo restored under «n anti-Bolshevik regime, but it vas perfectly clear that Bolshevism was rot erushable by force of arms. An alternative solution was to make peace with the Bolshoviks, but observation and experience must first demonstrate ihat Russia had dropped her barbaric methods and was governing on civilised linos. Ho believed that we could restore Russia to sanity, not by force, but by ivado and commerce, which had a sobering effect. He did not asprehend a Bolshevik because they were nnablo to organise a powerful army, and such a motive as plundering prosperous ttovincesllid not exist. No Bolshevik force could invade the Middle East, and thero was nothing they could get if they did so. What was there in the mountains of Armenia. Turkistan, or even Mesopotamia which the British did not control He expressed the opinion iKat trading would end tho ferocity, rapine, and cruelties of the Bolsheviks, moro surdy than any other method.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. GERMANS JoiIoiSHEVIKS Paris, February 9. Reports from Helsingfors state Ihat many Germans are joining tho Bolsheviks." They include a number of tho black-listed officers. Reports from Harabin stato that remnants of Kolc.hak's forces havo been reorganise, and have joined tho Czechoslovaks, and are advancing on Irkutsk.— Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn. FIGHTINUTODESSA London, February !). A Bolshevik wireless report from Moscow states that one British and cne Russian cruiser are bombarding Odessa, whore they have captured enormous booty—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SIBERIAOOLSIIEVIKS Honolulu, February 11. The Japanese newspaper "Nippu Jiji" prints a dispatch from Tokio stating that tho Siberian Bolsheviks havo captured Alexandrovsk, tho capital of Sakhalin, and that fear is felt that tho enemy may enter Siberia proper.