BRITAIN'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1919, Page 5

BRITAIN'S PART.

oOestion of intervention.

MR- LLOYD GEORGE'S POLICY,

* C SHAKING hands with murder*

P* Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

London, Nov. 10. Most of the London papers interpret Mr. Lloyd George's speech as a return to the policy of Prinkipo, as it follows an announcement of Colonel Malone, M P., that he was authorised by the Soviet leaders to repeat the terms offered through Mr Bullitt.

Colonel Malone is a young Coalition Liberal, who went to Eathonia with a British passport, and from thence to Petrograd and Moscow, where he interviewed the Soviet leaders, and brought back the terms which are now published. These are practically identical with those Mr. Bullitt published in America. Tile Daily Telegraph protests against Mr. Lloyd George's decision to abandon even the limited intervention whereby supplies were furnished to the antiBolshevik armies.

The Daily Mail describes Mr. Lloyd George's policy as shaking hands with murder.

. The Daily News says there is the dan!ger, if the Allies waste time, that the military success of the Bolsheviks may tempt them to put the price of peace Ihigher than to-day, when the door to Settlement is so obviously open. The Daily Herald claims that Lloyd George's speech means that the policy ol intervention in Russia has been a complete failure, and that he is reverting to tße policy expounded in January at the (Supreme Council.

London, Nov. 10. 'The defeat of Yudenitch is a serious dilemma for Koltehak, and the bad buffeting received by Deniken is being seized upon by peace supporters in every country as an opportunity to get the (blockade lifted and Russia fed and RusPn markets opened to the world. Srery ship arriving from the north ngg flotsam and jetsam from Russia king their way without money and clothes to friendly British cities. They ell agree that'the Bolsheviks have a very fine army including divisions .probably better than anything seen in Russian fcistory, because they are composed oi Communal workers who fight for a religion. This is confirmed from other ponrces. ) Several newspapers devote columns to |t review of the horrors of Bolshevik terror, but the main opposition to such peace comes from France, which is relentlessly opposed to the Bolsheviks. ; The Government at Washington is in(lined to negotiate with Lenin, leaving to solve Russia's difficulties, i The Daily News declares that the Soviet's terms are reasonable. Neither peniken nor Koltehak are any longer in B position to deny the Allies' attempts frt conciliation.

Helsingfors, Nov. 9. It is rumoured that a section of the Allies is again coquetting with the idea g negotiating with the Bolsheviks. Cerin American groups entertain the project of naming the blockade to Petrograd, either with foodstuffs, trusting that the British fleet will not intervene forcibly, or sending a fleet of motor lorries on a dash across the frontier from yiborg. Russian loyalists are apprehensive pointing not that the Allies' cat and «nou*« policy is unworthy and liable to fuin future relations with Russia. PRESS COMMENTS. - . London, Nov. 10. Tne Times, commenting on Mr. Lloyd George's Guildhall speech, says:—Thi3 •lowing hot and cold makes British policy stink in the nostrils of all patriotic Russians, who are still convinced of the ultimate military overthrow of the ter*orwt» now controlling Russia. It stigniatises the Bolshevik peace proposal as numeral and inspired by international financiers anxious tc have Russian pulley. *

Paris, Nov. 10. The newspapers lave not yet had time Ito criticise the speech, but the first comments do not favour the making of terms with Lenin and Trotsky i _ Mr Law, in the House of Comtoons, said that the Premier, on the Bth Inst., merely expressed the hope that iome method would be found of obtaintag peace with Russia. There was no discrepancy between this and Mr ChurchIll's speech on October 29th. ; . Helsingfors, Nov. 10. Owing to the military .crisis, Mr. Lloyd George's speech indicating the possibility of the Allies coming to terms with SErotaky and Lenin is most important.