INTO BARBARISM.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17990, 6 February 1924, Page 13

INTO BARBARISM.

WHERE RUSSIA TENDS. ENGLISHMAN'S BLACK PICTURE. LONDON, Pebruary 4. ""Wheii EusSiu breaks up she -will lapse iuto barbarism for & time. There is no immediate alternative to tlia prosent Government.' Bolshevism wiR be overthrown by internal dissension or by an- unsuccessful military campaign against u foroign enemy." This is tho opinion of an Englishman who recently returned from Eiißnia and 3a contributing articles to tho "Daily Mail." He claims that thero. is not the slightost chance of M. Trotsky calling ou the Bod Artoy to take the-'field as a means of; stimulating flagging enthusiasm for tho Bolshevik cause. The Soviet does not trust tho bulk of tho army, and daro not risk defeat in -an offensive against Poland, Boliniania, or any Little Entente border State, which ■would inevitably end in disaster. Even if Poland doliberutoly challenged tho Soviet, war would not follow. M. Trotsky is well aware that the rank antt file of tho army is dangetously permeated with anti-Bolshevism, except special corps in Moscow and Leningrad, Who ate well equipped and well fed. M. Trotsky knows that an order for mobilisation for war would not products the number of men re-, quired, while the railways aro incapable of handling largo bodies of troops or maintaining efficient lines of communication, and the factories could not manufacture adequate munitions for a campaign. Peoplo of all classes except tho Bolsheviks eagerly discuss every tumour of friction with Poland or other countries. Thoy hope that oomo unforeseen complication will result in a hostile army marching toward Moscow. Such a menuco would haatsn the collapse of Bolshevism. THE ITALIAN TREATY. (sstrrrs'o teixosam«.) BOMB, Pebraary 4. Owing to the appointment of M. Bykoff to succeed M. Lenin, it will be nceesiary to send to Moscow the text of the Italo-Euasian treaty, which has already been printed and approved by Italian and Eussian delegates here. A courier conveying the document has left for Moscow.

A NEW DEVELOPMENT. (Stdset "Strw" SERVICE.) (Received February 6tb 1.10 a.m.) ROME, February 5. Russia has postponed the treaty with Italy. lb is believed that the Russian C»oTcrnni'Bnt, in view ot the British, rctosnition, desires some modification of the concessions gra.nted to Italy.

PLOT IN ESTHONIA. (Stdzwz '-'Strs*' Sxavicx.) LONDGK", X'ebraary 4. Advices received state that hundreds of Communists, including members of Parliament, hare been arrested in Esthonia, following the discovery of a plot, directed from Moscow, for the overthrow of the Esthouian Government.