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kept in power by Lettish mercenaries.
On any fair application Of the principles
of "self-determination" and political
morality it's heads would be hailed uh<s
tremendously before court martial
and sent to face firing squad. y
The Allies have now ample forces in
hand with which to purge Moscowaan
Petrograd Of the criminals rla4Enx
there as Russian government, tosfzsea
Russia of Soviet terrorism and 10 aSsss3
store order and at least a semblafcetof
a nationalistic regime. That is one, Of
the urgent duties of world pacification,'
1t will be performed without any regard
to the protests or feelings of the Lenihd1e
and Trotzky coterie Of cutthroats., They
are outlaws The blood of tens of thou
sands Of murdered non-combatantsh ia,
on their hands. They will pay heiffull>
debt to justice. And Of their infamous
reign of savagery only CHASTITY memory
will remain. r. :.
For the sake of Russia in the years to
come may to-day's threatened massacre
not be added to the long roll Of terrorism
which has gone before and which has
already drained the nation of her best
blood. 49,
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are over 100 German officials, Who in spite
Of the protests of the German Consulsts
General, have not yet been released: theg
nave on the contrary been distributed
among all the most distant prisons of the
town. Suburban trains are guarded IN the
railway stations, in order to prevent eee
pie leaving.
he best known personages of the Gar
list government had already been broufts
to Moscow several months before and were
imprisoned in the Kremlin, where General
Brusilov had also been taken The only thing
that could be brought up against Bruslo,
was the fear that he might possibly ,lu
the part of Skoropadsky in the event q
the entry of foreign troops According u
local newspaper, twenty-nine of these
former dignitaries were shot without trial,
simply by order of the special commission
The official Red Terror in Russia-which
may any day become too strong for It's
orlginators-is already being blended With
the Gray Terror of anarchy. In broad day
light money and goods arc taken in the
open streets by armed hordes, but the news
papers do not publish much on that sub
ject; though what does appear in them
daily is quite sufficient. Last Sunday the
beautiful bells of the Saviour's Church IN
Moscow were silent for the first time; this
most beautiful of Russian cathedrals, The
white walls and cleaning cupolas Of which
are landmark visible from afar, is CLOSED
On the previous night burglars had bfotN
IN and stolen all the valuable mass utensik
vestments, flags and pictures--even the d.
yer mountings Of the Gospels disappesnd
From the neighboring villages reports ere
heard Of organized hordes attacking e.
tates, cottages and large country houses.
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At the Abyss.

This is the day set for the Red Terror
in Russia, the final act of savagery
GROWING record Of massacre and muir
der without parallel in the history of rev.
olutions. Elsewhere on this page we give
a German picture of the Bolshevik
slaughters, a forecast of what may at
this very moment, be staining the soil
of Russia. 1t is peculiarly interesting,
aside from it's vivid detail and fact, from
the light which it sheds on the German
mind. Germany created, financed and
loosed this monster. Now she breads
and laments the consequences, not only
to her neighbor, but to herself
Meantime the signs multiply that the
paranoiac terrorists of Moscow are by
no means insensible to the change that
has come over their status. If to-day's
final slaughter of the property
classes of Russia is stayed it will not be
from any sentiments of justice OF mercy,
but simply from fear of the fate which is
fast closing in upon the Bolshevik lead
ers. They find themselves at last ringed
about by forces which are soon to call
them to a stern reckoning.
Germany, in the throes Of defeat, has
deserted them. The new government in
Berlin has broken off relations with
Lenine and Trotzky, the purchased
agents of the Ludendorff regime. Not
a single power is left which is willing to
stand between them and their fate.
1t is no wonder that they are plead
ing for peace negotiations" with the
Allies. Only couple of weeks ago
they impudently called on the Allies to
evacuate Invaded Russian territory" as
preliminary to peace of understand
ing. Since then they have had the eff
frontery to offer to allow the Czecho-
Slovak forces in Siberia and Eastern
Russia to return to Slovakia, STIMULATING
that the latter should lay down their
arms. The Czecho-Slovaks do not need
permission from Moscow to.return home.
They will return on their own terms.
If they are in hurry the way is already
open to them down the Volga to the Black
Sea, which will soon be under Allied
control. No Czecho-Slovak would
dream Of accepting a safe conduct
through Russia as gift from the MUIR
derers in Moscow, whose doom is already
in sight.
On what basis could the Soviet gov
errment expect to make peace with the
Allies? 1t betrayed Russia to Germany.
1t has been a malignant enemy Of the
Allied cause. 1t is a noxious criminal
growth--a pure military despotism ex-
listing by virtue Of wholesale assassina-
ton. 1t does not represent Russia. It
is neither Russian nor Slav. 1t was
built on German subsidies and has been
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Clemenceau

The majestic figure of old Papa"
Clemenceau stood forth in all it's grand
eur in that scene in the French Senate
when he took the heartfelt thanks of his
countrymen and gave them his message
Of deep emotion and stanch wisdom.
1t has been Frances glory not only
that her people, her poilus, her women,
her children, have led the Allies in hero
ism, in faith, in<sacrifice, but that in the
crucial last quarter Of an hour" of the
war she has produced the two great men
of the war, the two transcendant figures
to whom all the World looks with admi-
ration and affection. Premier Clemenceau
expressed his pride that the Senate had
coupled his name with that of Marshal
Foch. That is the verdict of all the AL
lies, we think, and beyond the fact words
could not go.
There was splendid humility in the
Premers words to the Senators who
thronged about him-the sincere humility
of a strong man. There was in addition
the profoundest advice to his country
men: ut is harder to win peace than to
win the war. We must so act that
France will resume the place in the world
of which she is worthy. More than ever
must she gather herself up; more than
ever must she be disciplined and strong"
"Disciplined and strong!" We think
the American people are steadily coming
to a realization of the demands which
the coming months and years will make
upon them. An armistice, peace itself,
are but the beginnings of vast RESPONSE
bilities in world of fresh tests and new
problems. May we find leaders in the
years to come as wise and strong as this
grand old man of France!
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tai armor of the Social Reyo)utiorar;es
includes the principle that conditions are
the product Of personalities, and that
therefore IN the first place responsible per-
sonailtles must be eXterminated
Every Friday evening agitation meetings
are heid IN the railway stations and work
ing class suburbs of Moscow, at all of which
members of the government make speeches
IN order to keep the masses primed. At
one of these meetings, on August 81, in the
Nicholson works in the suburb across H..
Moskwa, the attempt on Leninc's life was
MADE. On this occasion Krylenko, who
with his Ukrainian compatrot Skripnik. is
lookeo upon as one of the authors of the
lerror' announced. amid stormy applause.
that as a reply to the attempt on Lenine the
ex+Mlnlsters Sceglovitov, A. n Hvostov and
6eleJzkl had been shot and the instipators
OF the Anglo-French conspiracy had been
hanoeo over to the revolutionary tribunal
Well Schooled A9ifators
In the peoples club in the Lefortovski
district-that typical half-rural workmen,s
quarter in the north of Moscow-as we'll as
IN the neighboring barracks of the 1st
Soviet Regiment, Radek discussed the sub
well-schooled agitators, but there are not
many who are able to hold the masses like
THIS small, nsignifcant-looking man with
the forehead and eyes of scholar and the
brutal, eloquent mouth Of demagoeue
Radek speaks Russian badly; he has a
Polish accent and German construction
but he speaks in simple straightforward
fashion which the masses can comnrehend
He reminded the people that after tho
November revolution the Soviet povern-
ment had allowed the Minister of Finance
Terestchenko, to go free in consequence ~
his old mothers entreaties, az also Can
erals Kornilov. Kaledine and Krasnoff-
those who were later on the leaders apa;ns+
the bolsheviki. He reminded them of tho
notorious Radko Dmitrieff, who before
frzemysl sent 10000 Russian soldiers To
tnelr deaths, only 10000 returning. The end
OF ms speech contained an appeal to the
Terror against the bourgeose which had
remained at home during the war. corn
\ fortabiy discussing "war to a finish" with
Miiukon' Buchanan and Kerenskv, while
huhoreds OF thousands of Russian peasants
anu iaDolers were starving, freezing and
dying on the various battlefronts.
Inc chief office of the special commission
mas oeen installed in the house belonging
20 the Russian Insurance Company" in the
Auolanka' and there it passes sentences Of
NE and death on those who have been ar
rested. In the streets groups of prisoners
are seen IN charge of Red Guards; along
1ne Nikitskaja. one Of the main streets.
whose once popular shops are now mostly
closed there pass the black prison vans.
Among those arrested in Moscow thar.
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the strong-arm means by which soil
darity of opinion had been secured. Then
be made this prediction:
But let distress and defeats come, and
the Potemkin village of national unity will
be blown away, despite the props of mill
tary law. If any one in Germany to-day,
enthused by our victorious progress,
should say gloatingly that it is only
matter of week two before revolu
ton breaks out in Paris, he might be
right, provided that the French army had
already been destroyed. But it would not
be any different in Germany if Germany
should lose the war.
Ii has not been any different. The
revolution is under way. The Kaiser has
been dethroned. Yet those who have de-
throned him have not changed their spots
or their morality overnight. Only a
chronic sentimentalist would be misled
into thinking that change of govern
ment, accomplished in much the same
manner as a man changes his coat, can
absolve Germany from a reckoning for
her manifold crimes against humanity.
1t cannot free the deposed Emperor or
the deposed grand dukes and princes
from their responsibility for the infa-
mics Of German warfare. 1t leaves Ger
many's debts undischarged and her
measure Of repatriation undiminished.
We did not make war on the German
government. We made war on a people
which supported that government in all
It's brutal aggressiops and in it's whole
programme of frightfulness. A de-
halserized Germany is still a Germany
outlawed and unrepentant. 1t must be
dealt with as such.
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ilurrah! lMarch to Fight the Foe

LIURRAH Hurrah! l march to fight the
i i foe
And satiate this consummatc desire
That bids me leave my native land and 60
Where foreign fields will glut my youthful
ire
With strange adventures and the red
romance
OF battle with the foe that sacked Louvain
And ribbed the purple hills of Northern
France
With desolate despair and outraged slain!
Hurrah! Hurrah! 1 march on through the
night
To tread the sacred scarp where comrades
lie
In bitches deep Perhaps where cannon
boom
Some darkened gallery may be my tomb.
If so l offer thanks to Him on high
For krand it is in Freedoms Cause to die.
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My Little Wet Home in the
o. french

d Written on the firing line)
I'VE little wet home in the trench
j. Which the rain storms continually
drench
Blue sky overhead
Mud and clay for bed
And the stone that we use for a bench.
Bully beef and hard biscuits we chew
1t seems years since we tasted stew
Shells crackle and scare
But no place can compare
With my little wet home in the trench
Our friends in the trench all the way
Seem to know that we've come here to stay,
, They rush and they shout,
But they can't get US out,
Though there's no dirty trick they don't
play.
They rushed Us few nights ago,
But we don't like ntrudcrs, and so
Some departed quite sore.
Others sleep eyermore,
Near my little wet home in the trench.
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Red Tape
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Information reaches this society
and appears to rest upon a substtEt'si
basis of fact-that, through the generosity
and enterprise of the American Red Cress'
the French and italian armies are being
supplied gratis, to the extent Of thoussno'
of gallons, with an an@sthetic which sne'
had been using for more than two yesss
in smaller quantities and which being o.
pable of and intended for local applicaHsa
eliminates all pain in the removing sho
changing of bandages and the dressing y
on the battlefield. Also, that because :"
red tape the American wounded would e0n'
tinue to lack this very material n'@N
Any one who has had gauze bandsse ~
moved from a wound will need nosdssefT
ton of the intensity of the suffering ca
dured in the process. Can this stfe
affairs be Notwithstanding that sne ~
is as stated? Notification can be hao, "
are informed, by cabling to the Amele''
Red Cross in Paris and to the medies' "
partments of the French and Italian at'ns-
Since the medical department Of our a'@.
has not acted at all in the matter Ass
are todd, it would seem that direct s0''1,
by the Secretary Of War is called tof'
1t is recommended. therefore, that shs 8.
tives of all wounded men telegraph
Immediately respectfully requesting .a's
act at once. 1t is further respectfuiiy ~
gested that if he ascertains BY c"p.e
the fact is as stated. he should esDN
structions Immediately directing the mss Z.
employment of this anestkstic which
American Red Cross supplies gratis in 'V
quantities.
GEORGE ETHRIDGh
Chairman Committee on Ansstnsss
II. D. CRM.
Secretary American Defenes
New York, Nov. 8. lel6. &
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An Anzac Poet
Signaller Tom Skeyhill

> The author OF these perses Is Si0no,ier Tom
Si;eyhiu, Of the Sh An=acs. He served through
the Golftpou corspa11,. ,ca.s tutcs ,0ourdsd aud
finally blinded sighting the Turks. He sight
less for t,oo pears, recovering his rssom ~, Wash
in0ton last Nay. As speaker for the Red Cross
ond the Liberty Loon no did extraordinary york,
raising $20,00O.000 for tho latter at the Metropoli
tan Opera House on October 9. In Australia, his
Mottpe country, he Is Enotcn as 1.-THE Solder
Poet" and his books Of have h1d Wtde
sale there. He Is the aNthor OF "The Soldier
Songs of Ansoc'' and Poems Of the Peninsula"
'Anothe, book Of soldier verss, Songs, Of
Anzoc" is to be ppblished shortly by Doubleday,
Page d Co., ard st IS from this collection that
these poems taken He the French
hospital ship on achich Rupert Brooke died. and
he kne1U hin, aOelL
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':Dings" War Seruiice:.|
James B. Weuver, IN The Des Moines
Register = .: ~. -

n THESE last great days, and they afcS
the last, when the blond beast of Ger
man militarism is snarling in futile rage
at the glistening bayonets that hedge about
hts lair, there is, in the language of Admiral
Schley, for every man and woman who has
Loyalty served the nation in the world
crisis, "glory enough to go around.rNsA
share may be appropriated by the humblest
private in the ranks, both in civil andimili-
tary life, quite as rightfully as by those
who bear the names that fill the headlines,
Let US beware, indeed, of him who in the
days just ahead would capitalize his service
for personal ends. A.;
In thinking over the last four years OF
public discussion, however, am sure we
are all alike thankful for certain voices
that have especially helped America to
visualize clearly the tremendous issues that
have inferred in the world drama, and NAV
be pardoned, I feel certain, if yields to
state pride for a moment to mentionfsjust
at this time one outstanding NAME It is
that IF, Jay N Darling. y.
Darling's unfailing grasp Of the underly-
ing thought Of the Allies as it gathered in
power and determination, and his thorough
ly distinctive and always delightful tech
nical skill, have won for him. and We are All
proud Of it, the very front rank among the
worlds cartoonistS and made of his pencil
one OF the vibrant moral forces in the great
spiritual contest now reaching it's climax. =,
l speak of spiritual contest, for Ger
many's challenge to the soul of humanitv.
if unrestricted, meant the moral atropliv 81,
the world. The marshalled material ,poNAr.
OF the Allies was but the vehicle Of their
determination, the thunder of their ruas
the voice that sounded their spiritual W. pitir1
pose. Is',si>
remember as boy the CARTOONS of
Thomas Mast, the Andy Johnson regime; She
Greeley campaign, the Tweed scandal. xekc:
His fame is secure as the pioneer among
those who have portrayed the daily thought
and purpose of people, and his cartoons
are an imperishable part of the history of
certain great periods. But Darling's work
is broader in its scope, moves in far more
complex world, shows keener technicsl
skill, and in the last four years has had. In
challenge and inspiration, a drama immeaa
urably deeper in import than that Of any
other period in the worlds history save
one. Rts I.
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And So the Days Go By
(Frons Poetry

(From Poet,y)
a ND so the days go by,
a All filled with majesty and stateliness.
The eastways slant of the morning beams,
So fresh,
Turns suhtly into noon,
And with a. secrecy beyond belief
The hours pass
Aud the long rays slant into the west,
They tint the heavy phlox-heads red like
fire,
And make black shadow of the pale wild
currant.
The hills beyond the lake drift far awav.
Unreal and blue.
Unreal and pure and fey
(Oh, the long hour and the rising misty
Is the fral beauty of the. twilight greyl
HELEN LOUISE BIRCH.
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At the Abyss!

7vODAY, November TO- is the date set for the qyeaest
atrocy staged IN this aUord maney the massacre
OF oil the propertyowmg and middle class people of
uss'o oy the BoIsheuik acho intend stroke to ere
maze the mated oo~geose 1t has been IN contemplation for
tong t1ne Elaborate preparations been made Last ee
the Russians appealed TO the Allies SAGE their couu from
this ualnaaginable calomity-but how?
1he following article reprinted IN "The Nev EuyoDe
FROM the Fromktu7ter Zeug of September e. gives re-
ahaote picture of the Russian background from the German
point Of 01eW 1t picture of taoofoM interest," shouuo rs
does the Russian terror and the Germans horror of the o
he helped to set loose IN the wo1Id
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In a Railroad Car

That railroad car, somewhere in
France, wherein a marshal of France
read the fate of a nation to German del
into history along with the Appomattox
apple tree. 1t is an unforgettable pict-.
ure in it's simplicity and directness.
When General Foch entered the Yer
sailles conference he was described as
entering alone, without staff or attend
ants. The picture in the railroad car
is Of a piece with this democratic
straightforwardness.
The terms of the armistice ares the
essential part of the negotiations. T. BUT
simple physical facts take more power
full hold upon peoples Imagination.
And for the people Of Germany, as for
the peoples of the world, now and in the
years to come, the unforgettable fact
will be that German delegates, through
the petition of their government, went
to France to beg peace. They who had
been so arrogant crossed the line blind
folded-a routine military precautipn,
yet not without it's part in the historic
picture. Since Henry w, Holy Roman
Emperor, went to Canossa and waited
in a courtyard for Papal absolution
there has been no more utter and khfnil-
iating act of submission by a great
power. . 4
That scene in railroad car, with it's
import and consequences, is the most
wholesome event in the history Of the
German nation. May it's significance
sink in and remain to warn and humble.
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EMULATION

7 AM content and in each pulsing vein
II An exultation born Of triumph appears
And here amidst the wounded and the slain
cast aside the foolishness Of years
To vindicate the promise of my blood again.
God knows, oft in the waywardness Of youth
I've staggered blndly from the path Of
truth,
To take the trail where lust and Joy we're
real.
AT least I thought them real-and thus
perchance
Have stained my pedigree and damned my
zeal,
Had not taken up the sword for France.
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THE world we're not so divided that
what is said in any one paet of it fails
to carry weight, the time would now be
ripe formally to protest against what is
happening in unhappy Russia. The mo-
ment has arrived for the whole of human
ity to make an appeal against the horrible
things that are occurring in all Russian
towns: the organized determination of an
entire class of society, we'll as the de-
struction Of countless lives,
1t is an immense massacre Of st. Bar
tholomew which has thrown its deadly
shadow over Russia in these last days of
September.
The cities of Moscow and Petrograd
tremble.
There is not soul left in these cities
who is sure Of his life. No matter whether
guilty or innocent, by reason of mere
suspicion, or according to lists promiscu-
ously compiled, people are daily arrested
by the Special Commission, sent to the
verminous, overflled prisons and shot
after q few hours. They are usually shot
in the early hours of the morning, under
the brilliant light of the searchlights of
the motor lorYies which are loaded with
victims, either in the little wood of Scme-
novskaja Sastava, or on the Chodynka
Field
Evacuation Orders
Houses and furniture are requisitioned
IN all parts Of the town; evacuation orders
spare neither the small bourgeois families
living in lodgings nor the rich in the great
boulevards. There are neither sufficient
vehicles nor workmen available to cope
with the numberless removals. Families
with small children have to pass the night
in the street. In certain houses only
pianos, pictures and clocks are requisi-
toned by the evacuation committees for
their clubs. Sailor committees make sure
Of the richest houses for themselves, and
those left in charge appropriate for their
own use the works of art or the wine
cellar
Terror as by ague, and the Terror is, in
the first place, born of revenge.
After the attempts on Uritzki and Lenine,
and when the plan for a new revolution
supported by the English and French had
been betrayed, the. "Dictatorship of the
Proletariat" announced by the Bolshevists
rapidly grew to a general terror. 49,.
A general terror is, above all, the ex-
IRENE reaction against the deeds Of a no.
litiral party which had, from the begin
ming, included terror in its theoretical pro-
gramme. The theory Of the, Communists
Is based on the principle that man is to be
considered as the product of conditions;
the. social struggle is, therefore, to be car
ried on with the aim If atlantic, .I;..,
improvement Of conditions. But the men,