Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-12
MONTHS OF HORROR
Cypress RUSSIANS
Those Who Suffer by Soviet
0utrages UnwiI|ingIy 4
Take Up Arms.
BoURGEoIsIE SHOT DOWN !.

| By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Tuesday, September
10.-July and August were months OF
horror which never will be forgotten :
by persons who watched Russia'n .wo
| great cities-Petrograd and MOSCOW
pass through the mad attempt of the
bolsheviki to shoot or imprison all TSs-
| sons who disagreed with their wiiS
efforts to control crumbling European
Russia. September probably will be
worse, for the opposition parties are
gaining strength through desperation.
The lives Of the non-bolsheviki are
unsafe and everywhere in Russia self
defense is forcing unwilling belliger-
ents to take up arms against the ruth
less persecution of the so-called COM
missions for the suppression of
counter revolution, which shoot down
the bourgeoisie by the hundreds.
- Will Not Be Too Merciful.
Leon Trotzky, the bolsheviki minis
ter of war; evidently is determined
that his dictatorship of the proletariat
shall not repeat the history of the
former provisional government and
fail through being too merciful.
Ex-Premier kerensky refused to
impose the death penalty and his gov
eminent fell almost without the loss
of a life, but observers Of the Russian; )
political situation say that no such'..
bloodless end can come to the soviet
republic. 1t has given no quarter and
it will receive none.
Premier Lenine, War Minister,
Trotzky, Sverdloff. president Of tho
lcentral executive committee. ana
other bolshevik leaders realize this
and they doubtless will fight as long $
as a single soldier remains loyal to
II them.
Trotzky has said in his speeches ]
that Moscow will be reduced to ashes =
before it is surrendered. Yaroslay. q.
q town on the Volga, $50 miles north
SiSting bolshevik domination. and :;
yologda, 40 miles north OF Yaroslav. =.
is reported to have. suffered the same 4
fate. 8;
| Night has been hideous in Moscow s
for months because of the volleys :
from execution squads in the military
Enclosures where prisoners are kept. =
/ Foreigners and Russians alike Were
searched without warrants and the
| Red Guards marched crowds of man
and woman prisoners through the
streets with such regularity that Pc
destrians hardly noticed them.
Accusation by Woman.
Marie Spiridonova, a social revolu-
tinary leader, charged in her memoir
able speech made before the all-Rus-
sian soviet congress at Moscow July
that bolshevik rule was more tyran-
nical than that of the late emperor.
and the reign of terror had scarcely
begun at that time.
DIR. Karl Helfferich. the German am
bassador at Moscow, rushed back to
Berlin and reported to his govern
ment that Moscow was in such
| state of anarchy that the embassy
could not Stay there, and he is al
legged to have advised discontinue
ance of diplomatic relations with the
soviet power.
There is little wonder that Am
bassador Helfferich had such an i'm
preston. Iwo attempts were made
on his life while he was in Moscow.
CThls is the first news to come out
of Russia of an attempt being made
against the life of the new German
ambassador at Moscow. His prede-
cessor. Count Won Mirbach, was assas-
Sinated)
Shots were heard everywhere night
and day, and motor lorries filled with
armed soldiers dashed madly through
! the streets with utter disregard for
the life of civilians. The actual
fighting which took place in the
StfeetS Oh MOSCOW Oh July &, WHeH
the city was under artillery fire for
several hours, was far less terrifying
to the public than were the endless
days of sheer brutality when the SOL
diers imposed on the helpless public
by virtue of their arms.
Men who have refused to fight the
Czecho- Slovaks on the Vo1ga have
been arrested. Even the helpless and
paralytic and one old woman more
than eighty years old have been taken
into custody.