RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16034, 27 January 1920, Page 9

RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

SPLIT IN BRITISH CABINET

PEACE OR WAR WITH BOLSHEVIKS.

TREMENDOUS CONFLAGRATION POSSIBLE.

lustralian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received January 27, 2.-50 p.m. LONDON, January 26. The Westminster Gazette’s Paris correspondent states that it is no secret that there is a. split in the British Cabinet over Russia. Mr Lloyd George is still trying to make peace with the Bolsheviks. He believes it more dangerous to fight Bolshevism militarily than to allow Bolshevism to develop, and probably die. The correspondent states that without the smallest re- j serve, Mr Lloyd George is implacably opposed to intervention of any description. It is equally clear that Mr Churchill believes that unless we crush Bolshevism. Bolshevism will crush us. Mr Churchill, when in Paris, did . 4 not attemnt to disguise this opinion, f fie, with Lord Henry Wilson, (T— I "'Viscount Beatty, and Mr Valter Long hurried to France in order to put a spoke in Mr Lloyd George’s wheel when the biting of the blockade was announced. The correspondent has reason to believe that Mr Lloyd George is disgusted with the so-called “Loyal Russians,” who received British arms and then traded them. The sale ot munitions to the Bolsheviks is oue of the greatest scandals of the whole Russian business. Meanwhile the Poles have made an unfortunate step in advancinb on Russia. The strongest unofficial representations were made to dissuade them, because they are jeopardising the whole work of Mr O’Grady and M. Litvinofi, who are in negotiation. The correspondent believes that Mr Lloyd George is annoyed at the Polish move, whciii raises the question of whether -: n the event of serious trouble the Allies should support Poland. The correspondent understands-that precautionary measures involving certain Allied naval -. nr [ military operations in Poland and ,he Black Sea and elsewhere have already been taken. There are obviously all the elements here oi a tremendous conflagration. The correspondent concludes; The Russian question seems to be again in the melting The situation is such that we must choose between Mr Lloyd George’s and Mr Churchill’s policies. AT VARIANCE. LLOTD GEORGE AND CHURCHILL. Received January 27, 2.30 p.m. LONDON, January 23. Although there is no evidence that Mr Churchill contemplates resignation, indeed, it is slated in political circles that he and Mr Lloyd George have composed :their differences. The British Weeklv, which has been considered in close touch with Mr Lloyd George, says: , are so sure that Mr Lloyd George and Mr Churchill are at variance in an elemental, vital and fundamental issue, that we wish to see Mr Churchiß out of the Cabinet, or at least out of the War Office. He has driving force, but must not drive ns over the precipice.”