DOOM OF BOLSHEVISM.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 June 1919, Page 6

DOOM OF BOLSHEVISM.

MR CHURCHILL ’S HOPES. LONDON, June 29. Speaking on the'Army Estimates in the House of Commons Ito-night, Mr Winston Churchill, Minister for War, foreshadowed the possibility, owing to the favourable situation, of with~ drawing the foreign troops from North Russia by the end of summer. It was .2 fundamental principle -of British policy that Russia must be saved by the Russians, -although that principle should be enforcedrwithout deserting friends. The new Russia must be a democratic State. The five Great. Powers had decided to make further support and final recognition of the anti-Bolshevik Governments of Russia conditional upon uncleztukiug that their victory must he immediately followed by summoning a constitutional clemocratic Assembly (chews). RC-fCl‘:'sl‘.g to the situation in the l.Tkl'-nine and 'C'riulea, it was apparent, he sairl, I',h:u v.'llel'ever the Bolsheviks were 1‘:1o«'~l (41(rmine(lly they were repulsed. Anxieties respecting Roumania had decreased. its army was a powerful force capable of protecting its own frontier_ The fact that m-wly-formed weak States which bordered on B'olshevik areas were standing ‘firm, despite their appearance of imminent collapse three months ago, was a telltale measure of the Bolshevik military weakness. ,

Wl‘ Churchill paid a tribute to General Deniken/‘s advance. He had advanced his whole front to 2» depth in some places to 80 miles. The 'ef'£’ee‘t ‘of British munitions here was only now beginning to tell_ Supplies would be continued. (Cheers) He was most eonfident of the immediate prospect of Denikin’s army. Generals Ironside and Maynard had solved the most d-ifiicult problems with ,extraor‘d'in.a.ry success. Moreover, a new factor was Admiral Koltchak’s advance_ Beginning to march on a front, of 700 miles, his line had been advanced to a. miximum depth of 250. (Cl:eers.) Ko]tchak’s troops were purely Russians. equipped wiith -Britidh rifles and muniiionsp This advance already had ‘drawn off 20,000 Bolsheviks fromthe Archangel front‘, rendering -3. real service. (Cheers) There was now a good pl'os=.pect of the whole of North Russia becoming s£:lf—:=,npporting within a rczisonablo,

time, and of purely Russian forces nlaint.ziining' themselves against the Bolsheviks_ Conequontly our tried conscrip-ts were being withdrawn and relievedby fresh volunteers" and new Russian forces, both of whom-‘were awaiting the arrival of Kolt.chak’s right Wing. Here we had been building up our old reputation. fulfilling all obligations respecting our -Wscraps /of paperi” (Cheers) He was confident. that the Five Powers stipulations» pr’eV,‘iously mentioned would Be satisfactorily answered. ' ____________ .