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about the question how such aid could be rendered. Some think
it is possible to help Russia as she is, mith the Soviet Govern•
ment at the hoad; others think that first of all it is neceeeary
to free the Russian people from the Bolsheviki and then, help Rus-
sia.

Strange and inconceivable as it may seem, there is no common
understanding in this regard even in the Russian colony. Here,
too, we find adherence to the idea of intervention. Moreover,
if we should take them at their own word, they already have under
their banners an army of Russian volunteers of 200,000 ready to be
hurled into Russia at a moment's notice, that they may togother with
Japanese an other Allies, exterminate the Bolehoviki there.

Much doubt arises with respect to thie plan.

First, whose extermination in heing contemplated? Is it the
Soviets? But they have come into exietence from the first of the
Revolution, and both provisional Governments existed only so long as the
Soviete tolerated them, - OR are those who recognize them to be
exterminated? But this would mean the exterminstion of fifty
per cent of the population of Russia.One of the advocates of in-
tervention explained to me thus "Those Bolsheviki who know what
they are about, we shall hang and 98 to the unruly ignorant mob.
we shall subject them to a good old-time flogging." I think, how-
ever, that it will be mighty difficult during thie grand execution
to distinguish where the renl Bolsheriki are and where the mob is.
Anyway, it is rather difficult task to flog 150,000,000 people.

In the magaaine called "Asia" we raad an article in favor of
intervention. It says that we shall exterminate only Bolsheviki,
from whom the whole Russian people wishes to free iteelf. It is
not mentioned, however, where and how the writer has learned the