INTERVENTION IN SIBERIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 9 March 1918, Page 5

INTERVENTION IN SIBERIA

DISCUSSED FROM RUSSIAN VIEWPOINT.

NATIONAL SENTIMENT OFFENDED

AGREEMENTS REGARDING ' RUSSIA.

MADE WITHOUT CONSULTING -HER.

MILITARY AID MUST ONLY COME BY INVITATION.

LONDON, March 8. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent states that the mere hint of occupation .without any indication of aims or forms of occupation staggers our staunchest supporters, and perhaps will awaken more indignation j •than the cession of Kars or Batoum to i Turkey. Possibly it will ultimately be .necessary as a military measure to safeguard Siberian supplies, but the danger is not immediate. The threat of occupation lends color to the repeated suggestions-of collusion among the bel- ! ligerents and the possibility -of peace at Russia's expense. If Russia has any fight in her she will need the Allies' direct military help. Let this come only as a result of invitation and by j consent of the Russian people. The newspaper Retch expresses serious misgiyings as to the carrying on of Anglo-American .negotiations without Russia's participation concerning Japanese occupation. The French Government proposed that the Allies should give definite guarantees regarding the preservation.of the integrity of Russia's Asiatic possessions, but, however valuable such guarantees may be, the fact remains that all agreements are being made regarding Russia without Russia having been consulted, which is incompatible with her rights. The paper adds in the absence of a -stable form of .government Russia is 'confronted'by sinew menace, the result being a situation -depriving her of a voice in the decision of international question^. r -LONDON. March 7. This new Bolshevik enthusiasm is an asset. It certainly *is one of the factors .in the revival of the na&onal sentiment,.and_ is shared -by many other clasates. Wt i« possible the various currents of ?bitter hostility to Germany • will oodlesee in a big national movement o"f resistance :to German invasion.' Hence, if a Revival of national sentiIm^ *6 J possible the Russian allies ! ought to :be fostered. "'Nevertheless it is urifortunate for us that at the very moment the Russians were smarting 1 under the "bitter humiliation of. defeat they were faced with a-threat of Japanese occupation iri Siberia in the interests -of the Allies. "The threat has aroused the strongest resentment -amongst all classes of Russians. PETROGRAD, March 7. General "Kryleriko commander in chief of tne Bolshevik forces, has resigned the command of the city.