ALLIES AND RUSSIA.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 14095, 2 January 1919, Page 5

ALLIES AND RUSSIA.

POTENTIAL MEANS 9F INTERVENTION. STATEMENT BY M. PICHON. - [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Dee. 31. In his speech in the Chamber of Deputies, the Foreign Minister, M. Piehon said: "We have gone to Archangel and Siberia and cleared the Transiberian railway in order to preserve for ourselves potential means of intervening the moment intervention may be necssary in a country where people of our nation may be in danger. We have landed troops at Odessa and Batum only until the Roumanian armies shall be reconstructed. The Allies aim at preserving healthy portions of Russia against the Bolsheviks, but the strictest orders have been given to the military chiefs that the effort necessary to crush Bolshevism must be made by Russian forces. There is not a single man arriving from Russia not even the most out and out socialist —who has not warned me against the Bolshevik Government, and urged me to isolate this scourge at any price. The allowing of Russia to continue in a state of eiyil war, with the present hateful, abominable Government, would not be a peace of justice. We should be constantly threatened with a resumption of hostilities. ''