Freely translated the article says:

"Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Wilson ! These
three men are directing their armies to oppose Bol-
shevik Russia, which is rightly esteemed by them
to be the most dangerous and resisting power in the
world to their theories. An Allied navy is now sail-



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ing from Constantinople to Sebastopol, probably
intending to land troops, and the Allies also think
they can attack us from the southeast, through
Rumania. The British navy is only waiting to
clear out mines from the Baltic in order to throw
itself at our red Petrograd. We know quite well
a struggle is imminent, and we exhort the Bolsheviki
to surroimd all the north of Russia with an iron
ring of discipline . . . that same discipline which
our government abolished some months ago volim-
tarily in the cause of liberty. A council of defense
of workmen and peasants has been instituted, and
the task has been allotted to it of organizing the de-
fense of Russia in its struggle with the Allies. Not
only the army and navy, but also all matters of
commissariat and transportation, as well as of mili-
tary industry, must be put into the hands of a
military regime — that is, a regime of violent labor
and discipline.
