The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-09-22
GUILLOTINE
CRY HEARD
IN RUSSIA
Pacifsts, Stirred BY
Germans, Demand
Leaders Lives

! Copyright 1917. hy the Unised Press,
STOCKHOLM. sept 20 Russia
hss reached the Reign Of Terror
period Today the cry Is for blood
FOR wholesale executions Bcl
sbevik members OF the Perograd
Council OF Workmen and soldiers
are demandins thf lives OF former
Foreien Secretary Psgl ~ Muiuk-
oG Michael RodzHsnko. president
Of The dums. and 90 other duma
members
Nothing could more strikncly
I shoR The horrible distortion o.
men,a' perspective developel by
German propaganda OF incaicliaale
strength than ths grow "a of ihc
guil0tne spirit n Russia The
BolshevlN are nscifsts. they de-
mand universal brotherhood and an
end 20 killing To ir sure This. they
demand executions
Germany propaganda more than
Germany armies menaces The life
of Russian democracy today
The Teutonic intrigue is reach
ina even into Dr. winter palace 20
attempt Premier Kerensky's life
n tempted KorniloT 20 revolt II
Is spreading un3c,evably scsnssious
stories ~ Russas great leaders 70
create dissen,ion in The new dem.
ocracy r had succeeded In Be
fuddhng The Russian public almost
20 The point ~ hopeiessness when
! ieft--to the poin. where Che 10
sane cry is for blood
Russia armies are holding at
bay ninety and half divisions OF
German troops $4,000 men
while Germany concentrates or her
intrigue Russian army officers are
keeping together enough OF their
forces 20 stop the German war ms.
chine They are experiences
AZ home Premier kerensky Is an
open target for q concentrated cam
paiEn Of malignant yiulhcatlou.
scandal. intrigue. and even attempt
ed assassination
German intrigue IN PetroErac
stops ar nothing T. fostered
mysterious story recently that the
premier was morphine aend. hav-
Ing contracted the habit following
an operation a year ago
Another lie which the kaisers
agents industriously circulated was
that Kerensky had divorced his
wife and married an actress Ut
terri untrue. these scandalous m
situations found some credence
One small newspaper even pub
lished them
Kerenskys latest picture showed
him standing with his cotton
gloved hand resting Napoleon-like
on his chest No sooner mad these
been put on sale than The city was
perrneated with angry whispeTings
about Kerensky The dictator
German agents increasingly whis.
pered. playing on the distorted
psychological bent 81 the tense Rus
sian mind Kerensky's picture
vaguely suggested Napoleon there
fore Kerensky was a new Ma
poleon, dictator
Not alone did the German agents
attack Kerensky by word Of mouth.
They even sought his life
The winter palace. ~ dreadful
memory ~ the old aufocratic days,
II today a gruesome place 81 death
and tragedy and mystery Is low
or windows are now all blown out
Lower rooms. close % where ker-
ensky works, were charred IN a
mysterious FIRE TWO weeks ago
AT the time when kornll0H was
marching on Petrograd. German
agents spread the report that the
British government favored his
revolution and the pulling down OK
Kerensky How well they did their
work IL indicated r the fact that
the government actually sent a
guard Of so soldiers 10 the EN-
bassy, fearing possible attacks by
Russians enraEcd a. the thought
thar Kerensky was menaced.
The arm OF the German secret
service even reached ont 10 Rus.
sian grand army headquarters Gen.
Kornil0n himself WIS deluded into
the belief that all the Allied ambss-
sailors would favor bis revolution.
airy move That belief was. IN no
small measure responsible for bis
open rebellion And Kornnof's BIT
Ter enmity toward Germany "a
known 10 every Russian
A week after AlexieT vas ap
pointed commandments % Rus.
sia's armies. when Kerensky felt
KorniloH was slipping In his allegi-
ance Kornilof refused 20 relin-
quish bis command and carried out
brilliant bar small advance OF his
Russian troops toward Riga
With Kornilof a prisoner. Ker-
ensky now faces trying question
~ what 20 do with him The pre-
mier Is either unwilling or unable
70 subject The former commander
in-chef to The death penalty
Apparently capital punishment In
The whole army has been abolished
and Kerensky finds 81 impossible
! furthsi 20 carry out his policy 81
ironhanded discipline IN the army
I steve HcnseI. ~ yesrs old. No. sd
Dcquindre was picked No nm
conscious 80 Garfield and
RusseN-st.. FRIDAY NIGHT 30 died
on The WAY fn Receiving hospital
Death was declared due to natural
/ CHulfF