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New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
Class Hatred Rife
In Russia; Souiets
Stay BY Wholesale
tBy The Associated Press)

STOCKHOLM, Sept. s. = Bolshevik
Russia is suffering the consequences of
class hatred in its most violent ex-
plesslon. Human life has lost all
value, and foreigners and Russians
aiikc are at the mercy of officials, who
Kill without trial.
Such were the conditions, at any
rate. when The Associated Press CORE
spondent at Moscow left Russia re-
Gently and travelled here with a party
OF American refugees,
Since War Minister Trotzky provoked d
the Czecho-Slovak opposition by break
ing his pledge to let the Czecho-Slo-
Naks leave Russia in peace, the class
hatred upon which Bolshcvism is
based has revealed itself in its full
horror. Before the Social Revolu-
tlonlsts broke With the Bolsheviki they
acted as check upon capital punish
ment. Threatened by the victorious
Czechs on the Nolga, the Entente
movements from Archangel and Siberia
and general internal uprisings. the
holshevlk leaders are madly prodding
their suspected opponents and filling
the prisons with hostages.
In the Bolshevik official bulletins
the acts of the Bolshevik authorities
are described as war measures neces-
sary to protect the Soviet Republic.
10 an unbiased foreigner who has
watched the rise and decline of the
Eolshevik power they appear as the
brutal efforts Of ambitious leaders to
perpetuate the rule of a minority so
small and so unjust that it could not
maintain itself for single day with
cut the aid of armed force.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
y. S. Wracked by Indian War,
German Agents Tell Russia

the tn strength Of the Central Empires
The Bolsheviki have not only sup
pressed all the opposition newspapers.
but the government now actually
prints and controls the few journals
that are still appearing in Pctrograd
and Moscow.
The Associated Press correspondent
nt Moscow, who left Russia with the
recently arrived party and is filing
this dispatch, can testify that the
Americans remaining in Russia were
treated to many announcements that
the indians were opposing cor scrip
ton all over America and that the
united States was again in the throes
OF Indian war. The people Of the
United States were also described as
starving for the lack of such COM
modities as sugar and -four, and gen
eral predictions were made that the
Allied activities on the Western and
Italian fronts would fail because the
United States and Canada could not
furnish the necessary bread.
Such stories were so ridiculous that
they gained no credence among the
educated foreigners. Neither did they
believe the wild reports of wholesale
starvation in England. where persons
were pictured as falling dead in the
prInclpal London streets from hunger
Finland and Sweden, concerning
which most of the foreigners in Rus
sia had little knowledge, were repre-
sented to be in such distress from
food riots that the American, Italian
and Belgian refugees were wholly un-
prepared to find Finland comparatively
we'll fed, with prices not more than a
third of those prevailing in Soviet
Russia, and to discover that conditions
were even better in Sweden.
Germany and Austria were de-
nounced as ficrcely as the Entente by
the Bolshevk press, whose constant
aim is to create the impression that
all the world is starving, and de-
manding a proletariat government
similar to that existing in Russia.
Japan, China and Siam are repre-
sented as undergoing widespread revo-
lutions.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
lBu Thc .4ssocinted PrcssN

VLADIVOSTOk, Sept. (delayed).-
The town of Chita, on the Trans ST.
berisn railway, il about the centre OF
the Trans -Baikal region, has been
taken by the Czecho- -Slovaks, opening
up the route toward 1rkutsk, accord
ing to reports received here. There
has been no official confirmation.
In the region toward the north of
Nladivostok the enemy is retreating,
destroying the water supply by poison
ing the wells and by other measures as
he falls back. He is understood to
have retired as far as the town of
Khabarovsk. The Allied groups are
keeping contact with the enemy, but
no serious engagement has developed
There have been indications that the
enemy purposed TO defend khabarovsk.
Advices received at Shanghai from
Nadivostok last week and relayed to
this country Saturday reported the oc-
cupatlon by the Japanese of Khabar-
ovsk, the seat of the general govern
ment Of Amur, at the junction of the
Amur and UssUrl rivers.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
u. s. Consul Hears
Bolsheuiki II ove
Refaken San1Qra
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)


WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Consul
Harris. at Irkutsk, in telegram to the
State Department dated September d.
received to-day, says it is unoffcially
reported that the Bolsheviki party
have retaken Samara, one of the Cze-
eho-slovaks' most westerly positions.
and situated about halfway between
Moscow and the Siberian border.
The consul states that if the news
is correct it means Oremburg, Sim
brick and kazan, other important towns
occupied by the Czecho- -Slovak and
Russian anti-Bolshevik forces, are in
serious danger: There had been no
contact with Ekaterjnburg since Sep
tember 3, the message asserts.
Consul Harris added that on August
% Vice Consul Hadley, at Samara, re-
ported that the Bolsheviki were gain
ing strength on the Samara front.
stretching from Penza to the north of
hazan, on the west of the Volga River,
due chiefly to the addition of artillery
to their equipment and which is being
manned under the direction of Ger
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
Soviets Murder SAT
AS Reprisals for
Attacks on Leaders

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 9.-According to
an official announcement made at
Petrograd and received here to-day, up
to the present SIP so-called counter
revolutionarics, including ten members
of the Right Social Revolutionary
party, have been shot as a reprisal
for the murder of Moses vi zky,
chairman of the Petrograd commission
for the suppression of a counter revo-
luton.
In Smoensk thirty -four large land
owners and the former Moscow Archi-
mandrite, Makarl, have been shot as
rcprisal for the attempt made on the
life of Premier Lenine.
The first list of hostages who, it IS
threatened, will be shot in the case Of
fresh attempt at counter revolt con-
tains 121 names, including those of the
grand dukes, NJ. Verkhovski, War Min
istcr under Premier Kerensky; Prince
Shakhovsky, Minister of Public Aid in
thc Lvotf Cabinet; number Of bank
ers and Serbian officers, the editor of
the "Bourse Gazette" and a number of
,ronoro1c
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10

qurcd two days to advance to the
Ailette from the village Pont Saint
Mard and four days to gain 800 yards
of ground. The machine guns were
massed thickly all along the canal in
front of Quincy and in the woods,
thickets and marshes.
The French engineers finally sue
cceded in bridging the canal, and over
the first bridge an cnragcd sergeant
charged the Germans around ma
chine gun position and single handed
made twelve of them prisoners. Such
was the work that went on both along
tho river and the canal during the
five days, each day exhausting Ger
many's best divisions.
twenty-five Quickirers were found
in small thicket called Etuaraisseage
Wood. They were almost as thick in
Nache Wool and the more extensive
timbcred land fronting Couchy- le- Cha
teau and Coucy-la-Ville. Where tho
French could get at them they charged
and killed the German gunners on
their pieces, but many Onplacements
were too well hidden or protected for
direct attack, and it was necessary
to shell them.
tiles sert splinters flying alf through
the timber. and when the infantry
charged they had to go on to Coucy-
la-Villc to catch the enemy, who had
fled, leaving his guns and an enormous
amount of materials and supplies be-
hind. Coucyle- Chateau and the height
on which it stands was thus turned
from the north and tlankcd at the
same time from the south, while thou
sands of shells filled the ruins Of the
surrounding positions.
Chateau Nogent, to the southeast,
was taken about the same time, and
with it the Germans lost positions on
which they had spent tremendous ef-
fort. They retired behind their three
lines of barbcd wire on the line to
Fresncs. The booty they left behind
in two immense engineering dumps in
cluded locomotives, railroad material
of all sorts and the great number Of
quckilrers and emplaccmcnt guns and
one l5-lnch gun with which they had
bombardcd French towns far behind
the lines east of the Ailctte.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10

act conditions of their confinement.
Nationals of Great Britain and France
other than officials are at liberty
The Allied powers, through neutral
dlplomatists, have demanded the re-
lease of the prisoners and warned Boil
shevlk authorities that they will be
held personally responsible for their
safety. This demand was made last
week, after Tchitcherin, the Bolshevik
Foreign Minister, had announced new
stlpulations to be fulfilled before the
British and French officials would be
permitted to depart.
Mr. Armour's message contained
report on conditions in Russia gener-
ally.
Americans who arrived at Stockholm
on special train from Russia num-
bered more than one hundred and in
cluded score of diplomatic and con-
sular officials and military men. the
wife of the late Consul General Sum
mers, who died at Moscow; Y. NJ. C. A.,
Y. w. c. A. and Red Cross workers,
newspaper men, bankers and a number
of unattached civilians.
The names of the party were re-
ceived to-day by cable from the Ameri-
can Legation at Stockholm.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
Despair Grips
Home Front"
Of Germany
Continued from page 1

French depots behind the lines in
France appear to be we'll filled.
1--WE have against u.s." he says, "on
the many fronts of the far-fung battle
great superiority of men and ma
terial. Hence the decision Of the Ger
man leaders to no longer indulge in
attack, but to act purely on the de-
fensive."
The decision was no doubt forced bv
rcumstances, but the announcement
in the form Of government paper bv
the Wolff Bureau fits admirably into
the peace offensive scheme, which aims
at using unpleasant facts to prove that
Germany is in the position of being
attacked and slandered.
1t is somewhat unfortunate from this
point Of view that the Berlin "Tare-
blatt' should on thc same day publicly
accuse the pan Germans with having
desired and precipitated the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
Germans Ouun Guns
Swell Losses They
Suffer in Retreat

LONDON, Sept. 9.-An incident
showing how the Germans are suffer
ing serious losses of men in their
retreat in the present battle is reported
from the field. Three staff officers
advanced in front of the British lines
IN certain area to examine the posi-
tions ahead. At about $500 yards dis
tancc they observed an enemy battalion
retiring in formation of fours, ac-
companied by artillery and transport
The officers Immediately communicated
with the British artillery and a field
gun was rushed up
Opening fire over open sights the
gun did great execution among the
retreating enemy, who became COM
pletely disorgsSized and fled.
1t is reported that the German in
fantry always is complaining about its
artillery shelling its own front line.
The commander of German infantry
unit placed white notice board in
front of the line of the sector in which
his troops We're operating, in position
visible to the artillerymen, hoping thus
to avoid short range shelling from the
German guns.
The evidence indicates that the Ger
mans are again combing out their air
service very vigorously. There are two
suggestions made in accounting for
this. The first is the urgent need for
the enemy to strengthen his depleted
infantry battalions. while the second
is that the Germans have realized that
they cannot hope to obtain the mastery
of tbe air
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
British and French
Consuls in Russia
Arrested by Reds

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-British and
French Consuls and other officials
throughout Bolshevik controlled Russia
are under arrest pending the outcom"
of negotiations now going on between
the Allied governments and the Soviet
authorities.
News of the wholesale arrests
reached the State Department to-day
in message from Norman Armour,
secretary of the United States Embassy
in Russia, who has arrived at Stock
holm with the American officials and
citizens, who travelled from Russia on
a special train through Finland. 1t
had been known that the British and
French officials were prevented from
leaving, and that in Moscow and Petro-
grad they had been arrested.
Mr.. Armour said the officials, though
in custody. were not held in regular
prisons. He did not describe the cx-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
German Papers Nozu
O penly Criticise
The Crouvr, Prince
Especial Dispatch to The Tribro,e)


WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Thc Ger
crate himself of responsibility for hav-
ing contributed to bringing on the
present war, has aroused the condem-
nation of a portion of the German
press, according to an official telegram
received by an Entente diplomatic es-
tablishment to-day. 1t says:
The Grown Prince, in an interview
given to representative of the Hun
garian newspaper AZ EST maintained
prince of bellicose disposition. and de-
Tended himself against the charge Of
having brought about the present war
"This defence has made bad i'm
preston in German Sociaistic circles.
The 'Chemnitzer Volkstimme,' IL Social
Democratic organ, writes:
"'lf the imperial government pre-
mcditatcs peace offensive. it must
absolutely refrain from naming the
Crown Prince as one of its spokesmen,
as the princes bclicose past. his noto-
rious attacks, his untimely manifesta-
tions at the Reichstag and elsewhere.
are in complete contradiction to the
way Of speaking he now wishes to
adopt
"The 'Essener Arbeiter Zeitung' also
severely censures the sayings of the
Crown Prince, who now that things
are taking a bad turn refuses to &C
knowledge any responsibility for the
war. 1t writes:
cot is the Kaiser's eldest son who
one day at Langthur addressed a regi-
ment saying: "The happiest day in my
life will be the day war breaks out"
"The Pan-G -Germanist 'Deutsche lei
tung' says Germany, missing the great
relief needed in the existing situation,
must create dictatorship assuring
that all those who have a clear per
ccption of their duty shall work to-
gether. 1t is the duty of all conscien-
tious men, it SAYS, to be leaders
"Artcles of this character plainly
show the confusion now reigning in
the political circles of Berlin and en-
hance the Importance of the allusion
made by Imperial Chancellor Won Hert-
ling in his last speech to the dangers
menacing the imperial crown and dy
naStV."
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10

mier then visited the devastated
regions of KENNEL, from Bailleul to
Neuve Eglise. recently reconquered by
the British and tnelr Allies. From a
point of vantage the Premier watched
the operations against Armentieres,
which is burning. Sand he could see
the first group of houses in the south
western part of Lille.
Sunday. Premier Clemenceau visited
Noyon and spent the rest of the day
walking or motoring in the region of
Chauny, Coucy-le-Chateau and Sois-
sons.
Upon learning that Abel Ferry and
CASTOR Dumesnil, both members of
the French Chamber of Deputies. had
betn wounded. the Premier visited
them at an ambulance Immediately in
the rear of the lines.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
Clemenceau Greets
King Albert at Front

PARIS, Sept. 9. - Premier Clemen-
ceau, accompanied by General Nor
dacq, head Of the Military Cabinet Of
the French Ministry of War, spent
Saturday and Sunday at the front On
Saturday morning Premier Clemenceau
visited with the King of the Belgians
one of the most interesting spots on
the Belgian front.
The Belgian King and Queen enter
tanned the Premier at luncheon and
III. Clemenceau and the King conferred
until late in the afternoon The Pre-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
Brofher-is1-LaU of
Trotzky Is Filling
Lerai7e's Portfolio
(Bv The Associated Prcss)

PETROGRAD, Sept. 1. - Premier
Lenine's removal temporarily from the
head of the Bolshevik government at
time when it is in such a precarious
state threatens to shorten its exist
ence. The Premier's bullet wounds,
inflicted by Dora Kaplan, a Social Revo-
lntionary,, are so serious that it will be
many weeks before he can return to
his desk. if.he RECEIVERS.
kamenef is a brother of Mrs Trot-
ky, wife Of the War Minister. With him
in the Premiership, with Trotzky hold
ing the portfolios of War and Navy,
end with Sverdloff as head of the Cen
trail Executive Committee, the three
most important Offices of the Soviet
government are occupied by Jews.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
Allies Hammer Wav
For1Uard To1uard the
Enemy Sfronghoids

LONDON, Sept 8 e 700 p. m.).-
Pushing ahead to-day on the front be-
tween Peronne and st. Quentin, British
patrols have occupied the towns Of
Nermand, five and half miles north
west of st. Quentin, and Vendelles. two
miles north of Nermand.
The British this morning were at
tacklng Souzeaucourt, southeast of
western and northern edges of Epchv.
within two and a half miles of the
Hindcnburg line. opposite lie Catelct
and their Patrols are reported to have
passed through the village.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10

DARIS, Sept. Off the Ger
mans are expecting to be
allowed respite from attack
either during the autumn or
through the winter, they are
counting without their host, says
Premier Clemenceau's newspaper,
"L'Homme Libre," in commenting
upon the military situation.
They made their great trial last
spirng to outspeed the United
States, it points out, but lost the
race to a competitor who was too
fast for. them. Nevertheless, the
newspaper anticipates a certain
slowing up Of the fighting because
of the necessity of bringing for
ward the necessary infantry sup
port.
The regrouping of the Allied
forces will not be delayed,
"L'Homme Libre" predicts, as the
movement of the troops is based
upon an excellent method, which
will assure the initiative being re-
tanned. In connection with the prob
able further course of the fighting
in the immediate future, the echo
de Paris" points out that the Allied
command is not of the type to
gamble with fortune and will not
risk losses disproportionate to the
results in taking them.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
FOE Prates of Inuincible Defence:
Constant Attack, Says Clemenceau

4 MSTERDAM, Sunday, Sept. 8.
4 In a lecture on the war in
Berlin Lieutenant General Baron
Won Freytag- Loringhoven, deputy
chief of the general staff, con-
tended that the present crisis on
the Western front was less seri-
Gus than many others during the
course of the war.
'The position we occupied be-
fore the enemy counter offensive
began was the result of an abor-
tive offensive, and therefore un-
suitable for a defence whose aim
was the effective economizing of
forces" the general is quoted as
saying in a dispatch from Berlin.
''The positions had not been con-
solidated, as trench warfare de-
mands."
He argued that nothing like a
decision was in prospect, and
said:
THE thing now is to push
things so that Great Britain and
America will recognize our invin-
cibility in defensive war. We lack
neither men, war material nor raw
material to hold out for long
time. We must, however, not
slacken in our determination,
which must remain alive in the
army and at home. All that might
divide US must be postponed un-
til the end of the war"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
(Bp The Associated Press)

TOXIC. Sept. s (delayed).-It is
seri-officially announced that when the
Allied troops are advancing toward the
Amur River they must reckon with
more than ten enemy gunboats. East
os iagovestchensk there are $4,000 of
the enemy, who are in strongly de-
tended positions at Khabarovsk. and
should the enemy offer resistance the
Allies must ne adequately prepared.
A Nicolaievsk report says the Far
Eastern commission has moved to
Alexievsk from Khabarovsk and has
passed 3 resolution to fight until the
last man.
The Czechs advancing from Irkutsk
have occupied Chita, Kahn and Oskaya
and effected a junction with General
Semenof. advancing from ManchuG. at
the Omanea River. According to pris-
cners, the enemy at ZabAikal, hearing
of the japanese advance from Manchu-
il. have become demoralized and are de-
serting.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
Count de Lesseps Killed
Leading Reconnaissance

PARIS, Sept. 9.-Captain Count Ber-
trand de Lesseps was killed while lead
ing .reconnoltring party of his regi-
ment, the Goth Light Horse, before
Ecuvilly. He was the third son Of Fer
dinand de Lesseps.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10
Taking of Transbaikalia
Capital Is Reported
From Peking
Ten Enemy Gunboats
Reported Near Amur
Allied Forces Keep at
Heels of Foe as Route to
Irkutsk Is Opened
lRu The Associntcd Prcssl

PEKING, Sept, 3 (delayed).-Chita,
the capital of Transatlantic. $40 miles
east of Irkutsk, has been captured by
Czecho-Slovak forces.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10

mans. The Czecho- -Slovaks are made
quately supplied with artillery.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-10

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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-07-22
PURPOSE IS TO SET UP HOME
 RULE FOR INDIA

LONDON, July 19-British wire less Service )-Eventually to set up in India responsible self govern ment is the avowed purpose of the plan of limited home rule for that country which has been prepared for submission to the British Parliament by Edwin s. Montagu, Secretary for India, and Baron Chelmsford, Vic eroy and Governor General of India
 Before the goal of self-government can be attained, however, the authors of the new plan say the Indian peo- pie should have a period of training They avow that the proposed scheme of government is temporary exped- tent intended to provide a method of training in government and say the ultimate attainment of the de- sired goal depends upon the Indian people themselves. ''It would not be fair to give it to them until they fulfill the necessary conditions" say the Secretary for India and the Vic eroy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-07-22
THE FLEXIBILITY OF OUR INSTI-
 TUTIONS.

Perhaps there is such thing absolute rigidity in nature, and probably ought to be. Even a Eteel tower, an iron bridge and building must yield a little to the shock of earthquakes and sway trife in the currents of moving air. But the perils of rigdity in governmental system would be the greatest of all In the throes of an earth quake and tempest going through our Government would have been shattered like broken bottle had it not been for the nexiby those in- stitutions founded by great forbears Never has there been more terrific strain put upon any other political system. Institutions established give the have, with the suddenness and violence of ship lodging a torpedo. been put upon another tack and compelled to adjust themselves governmental con tro which can scarcely be distinguished from the sheerest absoutsm. Institutions established to con serye the demands of state of peace have been forced. with scarcely more than moments warning
 to become the instruments of bloody, a and a p-otracted war. Habits which formed upon the theory that nation should be forever isolated from the relationships and the quarrels the European world have had to be suddenly and necessarily ex- changed for those which based upon the concep- tion of country the the civili- zation of the world Conscription of wealth of bus- and of labor have fallen upon like bolts from the blue, but they have rather established us more firmly upon basis than shattered us on the old. ~s-iv
 So great is this nexibty. so imitable this