NO NEW WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1920, Page 5

NO NEW WAR.

JTHE BOLSHEVIK MENACE. |Qt. LLOYD GEORGE OPTIMISTIC, *A ¥EAR OF PEACE AHEAD." By T«!«Mph.—Pre«, Assn—Copyright Received Jan. 20, 7.55 p.m. London, Jan. 17. , Paris correspondents agree that no jpew war is contemplated. 1 The arrival of Mr. Walter Long (Piret Lord of the Admiralty), Mr. Winston (Churchill (Minuter for War), and Sir ftary Wilson, gave rise to alarmist re|>otts, but these advisers were Bummoned & the Conference to discuss the gen|Rftl European situation. It is understood Mr- Lloyd George does Hot share the fear of the Bolsheviks cooperating with the Turks' to foment a tooiar .War. On the contrary he is con- { a year of peace is ahead, and that {to European unrest is diminishing. It is significant that Mr. Lloyd George's irthday message,-published in London nrapapen, states: "The tumult of human anger and unrest is settling down |9 «ssured indications of becoming •tejumy vore favorable." * 'The Allied measures probably will be 'fconUned to defensive action to protect Persia and the new Republics around the Caspian.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN. INTERVENTION NOT LIKELY. 'London, Jan. 16. A ttvlew of the Bolshevik peril states that the situation revealed yesterday by the sudden call of Mr. Winston Churchill (Secretary for War) and Admiral Beatty to Paris is most serious. The Allies are now reaping the fruits of their utter lack of statesmanship in dealing with Bolshevism since the artoistiee. The trouble has been that the fellies hare dissipated their efforts. (They hare given support to Denikin, •fSasanoff and Yudenitch, but the assistance given was never sufficient to secure victory and given regardless of the necessity of a connected policy. The Allies now realise that all the generals have failed them, and Lenin and Trotsky have the whole of Russia and Western Siberia at their mercy. The Affies' leaders seem utterly at a loss how to meet the peril. France Would doubtless like Britain to put in forces-in Russia, if only to save some of the huge Russian investments in exchange for which French investors are anxious to secure grants to work mines, foreetl, etc. There is not the least tiktNkoad of this, as public opinion in (Britain is strongly averse to resuming the war in Russia. The pity is, as Colonel John Ward Bays: "In the middle of 1918, 40,000 Britishers could have got through to Ifetrograd and wiped out Bolshevism; now the Red Army numbers two millions or more. It is true the force taw been raised by terrorism, but it is formidable.''

DANGER IN THE EAST. The danger in the East is serious. Pete* With Turkey has not yet bee. eeeured, and there" are elements favorabU to the spread of Bolshevism in £i}a Minor. Denikin's breakdown leaves the mad to India open and Bolshevik elements are already at Herat. Britain's quasi failure in the Afghan war has increased the danger, while there is .much unrest among the border tribes. tan obvious precaution is to control Persia and the waters of the Caspian, where |the loyal Russian warships should immediately he manned by the British pavy and the situation ■ secured.—Aus.\N.Z. Cable AsmThere is no real danger of a serious Bolshevik advance in Siberia, as a very ■mall Japanese force is capable of dealing with the huge Bolshevik rabble. Indeed, it is believed that Lenin and Trotsky do not contemplate attacking Japan and will prefer to transfer their forces to the Esthonian, Lettish, Fintush and Polish fronts. The Poles are quite incapable of meeting a big attack by the Bed armies unaided, as they are poorly led and would be greatly Outnumbered. This is not the least difficulty the Allied leaders in Paris are now considering, as Poland has been the bulwark fcgainst Bolshevism in westetn Europe,

BALKAN POSSIBILITIES. There are also dangerous possibilities in south-eastern Europe. The Dailv Telegraph's correspondent, as a result of a personal tour in central and eastam Europe, expresses the opinion that Booaania is faced with famine Practically lio wheat has yet been sown, though the seed should have been in the ground early in December. Not 10 per •cat of the maize land has yet been ploughed. The new class of peasant proprietors are responsible for the delay. Ska peasants harvested enough of the Ml 9 crop for their personal use and left the rest to rot, arguing that they bad been exploited by the townsfolk for centuries and were not going to support the rest of the community any longer. ' There is unrest in Bessarabia owing to the Roumanian exactions and misgovenanent. As Bessarabia adjoins Odessa and the Ukraine, both of which are under the sway of Bolshevism, an eruption in Bessarabia is imminent. Ifhe Siberian men have developed a flMsite for manual labor as the result of the war, but the land is fairly Will cultivated by the women, whom the mm have not allowed to become intoted With the male ideas regarding wwk. A shortage of food is likely in garhia, but no famine, if Dalmatia is fed from overseas. Bulgarian agricultural labor is so Marce that the Government is considering the possibility of forced agricultural labor, based on the principle of pi work, no food. There is much symoatby for Bolshevism amongst the ■Mates, and the governing classes are ocwith political feuds and inlndeed, throughout central and east- | fern Europe the upper classes are behav- • sng with disgusting extravagance and feckless disregard for their countries future.—AU9.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

AID TO POLAND. Received Jan. 20, 7.30 p.m. Washington, Jan. 17. Mr N. D. Baker (Secretary for War), in a statement, said: "I personally do not object to the United States participating in aid to Poland so long as Po)*ad MntinuM to preserve its frontier* against the Bolaheyiks.V- Aus.-