The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-10
Country Suffers From Results
of Most Violent Form of
Glass Hatred.
ALL NEWS Is GARBLED
Bolsheviki Spread Idea Entire
World Wants to Adopt
Soviet System.
By the Associated Press.

STOChHOLM, sept. tuelayeu).-boi-
shevist Russia Is suffering the conse-
quences Of class hatred in its most vio-
lent expression. Human life has lost
all value and foreigners and Russians
alike are at the mercy OF officials who
kill without trial. This information Is
brought by the Associated Press corre-
spondent at Moscow, who has arrived
here with n party OF American refugees.
Since War Minister Trotzky provoked
the Czecho- Slovak opposition by break
ing his pledge to let them leave Russia
in peace the class haired upon which
Bolshevism is based has revealed itselt
in its full horror. Before the Social
Revolutionists broke with the Bolshe-
Wiki they acted as check upon capital
punishment. Threatened by the victo-
rious Czechs on the Volga. the Entente
movements from Archangel and Siberia
and general internal uprisings the Boil
shevist leaders are madly prodding their
suspected opponents and filling the
prisons with hostages.
The Bolshevist and German news
papers and propaga ndsts have the field
to themselves in supplying Russia with
what information they choose regarding
outside affairs. and they also monopolize
the reports going out Of the country.
Friction with Germans.
There is constant friction between the
Bolsheviki and the Germans over the
Transmission OF information. and they
are making wholesale charges and coun-
ter charges OF unfairness In the treat
ment of the news. Meantime the neu-
trail nations, as we'll as the belligerents.
are suffering from the pernicious cam
paign OF Justification. Russia receives
little foreign news except statements
Of weakness on the part OF the Entente
Powers and the strength of the Central
Empires
Americans remaining in Russia were
treated to many announcements that
the Indians were opposing CONSUMPTION
all over America and that the United
States was again in the th~oes of Indian
war The people OF the United States
were also described as starving for
sugar. -four and other commodities.
Such stories were so ridiculous that
they gained no credence among the
educated foreigners. nor did the wild
reports Of wholesale starvation in Eng
land. where persons we're pictured as
falling dead in the principal London
streets from hunger.
Germany and Austria are denounced
as fiercely as the Entente by the Boil
shevist press, whose constant aim is to
create the impression that all the world
is starving and demanding a proletariat
government similar 10 that existing in
Russia. Japan, China and Siam are
represented as undergoing widespread
revolutions.
Finland in Horror of Soviets.
Instead of there being a demand for a
Bolshevik regime in Finland. as the
Soviet papers represent. nine 'tenths of
the Firms throw up their hands in hor-
ror when Bolshevism Is mentioned
The Bolshevik idea is equally forbid
ding to the great majority OF the Swedes,
who have profted by Finland's expe-
riences and are paying no attention to
the violent propaganda the Bolshevist
agents are conducting in stockholm.
The Soviet republic has not realized
the ideals OF Russian women and they
are playing an important part in has
tening its end. Their influence in this
connection is being exerted even more
powerfully than it was in bringing the
dictatorship OF the proletariat into ex-
istence.
Maria Spiridonovo probably was the
most powerful leader in the establish
ment of the Bolshevist power. As the
recognized spokesman of the peasants,
forming So per cent. OF the Russian
population, she swung the peasant
strength into line and persuaded the
Social Revolutionaries OF the Left to
join the Bolsheviki. ,hly 4, eight
months later. she delivered a startling
speech of defiance to German oppression.
which resulted in the assassination Of
Count Won Mirbach and other officials,
eliminating in the shooting OF Lenlne
himself