"NEXT YEAR WILL BE TOO LATE!"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 223, 8 June 1918, Page 7

"NEXT YEAR WILL BE TOO LATE!"

APPEAL FOR ALLIED HELP TO RUSSIA ' THE GERMAN MENACE • I REVEALED ; r, • 1 . ' i (Itcc. JtinO' 7, :8.5' ji.iii.) : London, June G. I A Russian officer,, commissioned by the j pro-Allied party.to present .Russia's case to the Allies, has readied London after ' sever,'i.l months' travelling, via Siberia, ! and India. He eluded the Bolshevik eur- j veillance and had hair-breadth escapes. \ His lii'o was thrice attempted. Ho : states that Generals AlexiolT, Kaledin, ' luirnilofl', and others instructed him to . j make the strongest appeal to tho Allies j for armed intervention. Germany was rapidly enlisting the Russian occupied ; provinces and building up a large army, j easily persuading the peasants to enlist ! by promises of good pay ami loot. Gcr- 1 many likewise was forming a Turkish- ; Moslem army recruited from the Russian ] Tuuranians under German organisation j and leadership, and intended for the con- i quest of India and tho absorption of ' i South Russia and the Caucasus, and pav- > ing the way for a dire menace to Rus- • sia's northern sea route, intended to J exclude sea action by tho Allies. The ' ! Bolshevik outcry against' Japanese iuter- j volition in Siberia was devised to safe- j guard the East. The educated Russian i minority, misunderstanding tho Allies' i silence, believing that they have alien- ! filed their sympathy,- are inclined to ac- I eept German domination in preference for misrule, yet would instantly rally if promised help. Meanwhile Germany' ! rapidly continues the conquest of Russia. "The Allies," he says, "should not lost a moment. Next year it will be too i late to interven;."— I "The Times." ' !