The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-15
WANT CAR TRIED
Soviet Committee Asks Punish
ment for Many Crimes.
Urges All of Royal Family Be
Brought Back to krOnstadt.
Ry JOSEPH SHAPLEN.

Petrograd, Jan. 1.-THE Bolshevlkl
are working strenuously to make Pet
rograd a "ciean city" The cleanup
was on in full vigor today. One result
was the arrest of 800 gamblers and
drunks in a huge raid on a notorious
dive last night. Other raids netted
more criminals and riffraff Strenu-
Gus efforts are being made to clear
up sthe problems of food administra-
ton and to make the city orderly and
neat
The same sort of procedure of order.
of cleaning up, is being steadily
worked out by the Bolsheviki as ap-
piled to the wholly governmental sit
uation. Despite feverish opposition
by those politically opposed, the
Trotzky-Lenine government is prepar-
ing calmly to arrange the pan-RusSian
congress of workmen, soldiers and
peasants-the body with which it is
hoped to replace the elected constit-
uent assembly. The Bolshevfki hope
by this all-Russia congress to create
an assembly similar to that inaugu-
rated in France in 1892, which will
become the supreme Iaw-giving body
for Russia
To Bring Ex-Czar Back. ye
The executive committee of the all
Russian peasants soviet today decid-
ed to urge the. executive committee of
the proposed al1-RuSSian congress of
Workmen and soldiers to bring the
Romanoffs back to Petrograd from
Tobolsk. 1t was suggested the royal
family be imprisoned at Kronstadt.
The committee urged the arrest of
all members of the ex-czar's family
who are still at large and the institu-
ton of commission to try the Ro-
manoffs as soon as possible, mot only
to punish the car for his many crimes
but to utilize the trial as the best
means of propaganda against the
monarchy"
The Bolsheviki are exercising a
magnetic influence over the prole-
tariat at large under the slogans of
"class war; and IAN immediate social
revolution" accusing the social revo-
lutionarieS and the Mensheviks (the
Minimalists) of surrendering to the
bourgeoise and denying the contention
of their opponents that all classes must
cooperate to build up. The Trotzky-
Lenine disciples insist that a complete
Socialist regime is impossible without
any capitalist interval of control This
participation in the reorganization by
the capitalists is the principal bone of
contention among the various political
groups today.
Officials Heavily Guarded
Smolny institute, headquarters of
the BolSheviki, and Just now head
quarters of the Russian government,
offers an amazing picture these days.
Back in the days of Kerensky's
regime, the Bolsheviki were allotted
this building as their headquarters,
principally because it was far removed
from the center of the city and in
quiet neighborhood.
Today Smolny institute and. its
neighborhood is the Invest spot in Rus
STA. The nations rulers work, eat
and sleep there. Heavy guns guard
the entrance. The windows bristle
with machine guns. A stranger is
unable to take q step without run
ming into guards Armed and armored
automobiles fill the yard inside. The
occupants of the building work as tho
they were determined to triumph or be
destroyed with the building itself.