Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-13
iBOLSHEVIK POWER
! RAPIDLY WANING
DR.. Gavronsky, Arriving at
Stockholm, Tells of Mos
COW Conditions
ALLIES MUST AID RUSSIA
Red Leaders Base Their
Strength on Foreign Sup
port, He Says
Special Cable 10 Erening Public Ledger
Copyright, 1918, bV Nctc York Times Co.

cVtC" tuOte 10 EIeH"S UOHE LeugeF
Copyright. 1918, by Nec York Times Co.
Stockholm, July 13.
DR.. Dmitri Gavronsky. a member OF
the Russian constituent assembly, ar.
been sent as the delegate of the So.
cial Revolutionary party to take part
in the coming international Socialist
conference. He arrived direct from
Moscow and had many interesting
things to tell
He says that opposition to the Bol.
sheviki is growing rapidly among the
workers and peasants, but that the
BolsheviM base their power chiefly on
foreign support In Moscow they
have at their disposal 10000 well.
armed Lettish soldiers. some detach.
ments of Finnish Red Guards and a
battalion of Chinese troops. The lat.
ter are always used for executions.
The BolSheviki are also supported
by German war prisoners and the
union between the Germans and the
Bolsheviki at the present moment is
very strong. In case of necessity,
even stronger forces will be put by
the German Government at the dis.
posal of the Bolsheviki. Therefore, 1t
Is not possible for the Russian democ.
raCy unaided to overthrow the Bol.
sheviki. but the Social Revolutionary
party looks to intervention by the
Allies as the unavoidable result of the
prevailing situation when Russia
every day is sinking more and more
under the German yoke.
BoIsheviki CompIacent
Doctor Gavronsky declares that the
Bolshevki who pretended to have signed
the peace of Brest only under protest,
now do everything the Germans dictate
withou: any protest. The complete dis
ruption of Russia is taken by them in
a matter-of-faCt way. Her most fertile
territories are taken from her and the
most unspeakable tortures are inflic. ed
on the peasants of the Ukraine. as well
as the most shameless interference in
inner affairs Of Russia
The situation now prevailing in the
Ukraine. he declares, can be best COM
pared with that of Belgium. No; only
have whole villages been DESTROYED hy
artillery and asphyXiating gases. but
democratic order and civil liberties have
been literally rooted out
"hat under these conditions" Dr.
Gavrons'ky asks, has the Russian revo-
lu;ionary democracy, which, unlike the
Bolshevik. is not the slave of German
| imperialism. to do. No agreement with
the BolsheNiki Is possible when their one
( aim is to preserve the power of their
party in the land. although it is only a
! shadow 'of power. That is why the social
| revolutionary party and the large mass
| or the Russian revolutionary democracy
! look iearleSsly to the indispensable helm
! of the Allies.
The Russian democracy Is deeply per-
Suaded that this help will not undertake
| interference in the inner affairs of Rus
SId' put merely strive to facilitate the
! Russian peoples emancipation from the
| German thrall., As the Germans, at the
point of the bayonet. bring a restoration
| OF political and social reactions go The
! Allied democraCies must help Russia IN
restore completely its national and ter
rNorial integrity and preserve the con-
quest of the March revolution.
Peace Aims Like Allies
THE Social Revolutionary party sim
demands general peace without annex
ations. Having determined to accent rho
help Of the Allies and to assist them in
every wav to restore the eastern front
and t. drive tine Germans out OF Russia
IL Will point to the necessity of pro-
claiming openly such a peace as its only
ann Tor cont nuation of the war"
Doctor GaVronsky does not think that
! at:er the downfall o: the BoShevi<i the
reaction will secure to power the parties
OK the Right. not to speak of the reac.
uCnares who are absolutely powerles::
All attempts to organize monarchist con-
spiracies at Moscow, he says. have been
failures. The name of Grand Duke Mi
chael, he declared, has no authority and
still less policy. That is especially true
he says where the Volga and Siberia
are concerned.
Immediately BolsheViki are thrown
down the National Assembly must be
conroked he said, which will leave
the power in the hands of a cabinet
formed with the assistance of representa-.
tlNes of local government bodies in the
towns and villages. Then the reelection
Of constituent assembly will be or.
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