The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-12
MEN WITH BULLETS
 APPARENTLY IN CONTROL
Ali of This Chaos Witt Continue it is . Arise Out Of the Ranks and Re-
 store Order Through Getting the
 Confidence of the People at Large.

Stockholm, Tuesday, Sept 10.-- July and August were months os borrow which never will be forgot ten by persons who watched Russia's two great cities-Petrograd and Mos- COW, pass through the mad attempt of the Bolsheviki to shoot or impris- on all persons who disagreed with their wild efforts to control crumbl- ing European Ia'ssia. September probably will be worse for the oppo- sitipn parties are gaining strength through desperation.
 The lives of the non Bolsheviki are unsafe and everywhere in Rus sia self defense is forcing unwilling belligerents to take up arms against the ruthless persecution of the so- called commissions for the suppress sion of counter revolution ~sghieh shoot down the bourgeoisie by the | hundreds.
 | Leon Trotsky, the Bolsheviki miu- ister of war, evidently Is determined i that his dictorship of the proletariat l shall not repeat the history of tho former provisional government and fail through being too merciful.
 E-Premier Kerensky refused to impose the death penalty and his government fell almost without the loss of life, but observers of the Rus- sian political situation say that no such bloodless end can come to the soviet republic. lat has given no quarter and it will receive none.
 Premier Lenine, War Minister Trotzky, Severedoff, president of the central executive committee and other Bolsheviki leaders realize this and they doubtless will fight as long as single soldier remains loyal to them.
 Trotzky has said in his speeches that Moscow will be reduced to ashes before it is surrendered Yaroslay. c town on the yolga, l60 miles north east of Mascow, was burned for re- sisting Bolshevilsi domination and Vologda, 1l0 miles north of Yaros- lav is reported to have suffered the same fate
 Night has been rideous in Moscow for months because of the volleys by firing squads from military enclos- ures where prisoners are kept. Foreigners and Russians alike were searched with warrants and the red guards marched crowds of men and women prisoners through the streets with such regularity the pedestrians hardly noticed them.
 Marie Spiridonova, social revo- lutionary leader, charged in he- l memorable speech made before the all Russian soviet congress at Mos COW on July f. that Bolsheviki rule was more tyrannical than that of the late emperor and the reign of terror ! had scarcely begun at that time. 1 Dr Karl Helferrich. the German ambassador at Moscow, rushed back to Berlin and reported to his govern | ment that Moscow was in such a state of anarchy that the embassy 1 tOuiu HOl stay iutit anu ut IS diitS , ed to have advised a discontinuance | Of diplomatic relations with the so- viet power
 There is little wonder that Am , bassador IHelferrieh had such an im- pression. Two attempts were made on his life while he was in Moscow. tThis is the first news to cone out , of Russia of an attempt against tho ! life of the new German ambassador | at Moscow His predecessor. Count l, von Mirbach, was assassinated.) Shots were heard everywhere day | and night and motor lorries filled with armed soldiers dashed madly through the streets with utter dis regard for the life of civilians. The l actual fighting which took place in