The New Government Falling. out with Everyone: Simionov the Perennial Nuisauce Vladivostok, July 28, The position is a little clearer now than it has been for some time past. After the Merkulov coup @état, a period of stagnation set in which rendered it difficult to say anything interesting or useful_ Nothing has been achieved during. the period of rest, and now dark clouds are once more gathering on. the politico) horizon.
Ataman Simionov's arrival in Vladivostok was the first blight on the prospects of the new Government, as it has immediately arouse ed feelings of distrust in the population and caused many who had become tired of the Communists, and who were on the point of lending their support to the new regime, to return to their former extreme beliefs. Iv is continually being asked why, if Simionov is really the Russian patriot that he claims to be, he persists in spoiling. these anti-Bolshevik movements by interfering with his absurd methods. of the dark ages, which are considered not one whit better than those of the Bolsheviks.
The next set-back was the action of the Government itself in dis-. persing the meeting of workmen which was discussing what attitude to adopt in the elections to the Popular Assembly. This step was commonly thought worthy of the old gendarme system and it caused the workmen to boycott the elections altogether.
Not satisfied with this, the Government then proceeded to quarrel with the Zemstvo, an inStitution which has always suffered at the hands of the reactionaries and the Bolsheviks.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the elections to the Vladivostok Popular Assembly have proved a failure, and thatthe area-under the jurisdiction of the Vladivostok Government: is decreasing instead of increasing, as it first promised to do when the Kappel troops overthrow the An~ to nov régime.—Reuter.
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