Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-09
tBy the Associated Press.]


/ Stockholm. Sept. s.--The lack OF res
liable information possessed by Swcden
and Finland concerning internal AFFAIRS
in Russia amazed American and Italian
refugees arriving here from Russia.
Also they we're much surprised to and
Finland and Sweden in such normal
condition.
Tho bolshevik and German news
papers and prppagandists have the deld
all TO themselves In supplying Russia
with what information they choose re-
garding outside affairs and they mo-
nopoiizo reports going out of the coun-
| try
Bolshcvik Russia now stands In ab-
solute telegraph isolation with the rest
OF tho world with the single exception
of the outlet thru Germany. Telegraph
ing is not possible thru the Ukraine.
Finland Siberia or the northern ports.
Consequently tho bolshevik and Ger
man censored dispatches alone supply
the outside world with Russian news.
| Constant Friction Over News.
! Az n matter of fact there liz constant
friction between the bolshcviki and
Germans over the transmission OF news,
and they are making Wholesale charges
and counter charges Of tho handling Of
news.
| Russia Is given little foreign news ex-
ccpt that which indicates weakness on
the part OF the entente powers and the
strength OF the central empires The
holsheviki have not only suppressed
all opposition newspapers but the gov
ernment now actually prints the news
| Journals appearing in Petrograd ana
Moscow.
Indian Wars in America.
The Associated Press correspondent
at Moscow, who left Russia with the
recently arrived party and In hling this
dispatch. can testify that the Americans
remaining In Russia were treated TO
many announcements that the Indians
were opposing conscription all over
America and that the United States
again was In the throes OF Indian war.
The people OF the United States were
also described as starving from lack
of such commodities nv suagr and hour
rrd predictions were made that allied
activities on the western and Italian
fronts were failing because the Unitcd'
States and CanadO could not furnish
the necessary bread.
Such stories were so ridiculous that
they gained no credence among educat-
ed foreigners. Neither did they believe
widespread reports Of starvation IN
England, whore persons were pictured
MS falling dead from hunger In the Lon
don streets.
Report Riots IN Sweden,
! Finland and Sweden, concerning
which most az the foreigners in Russin
had little knowledge. were represented
10 nc in such distress from f.,ti f''ots,
that tho Americans. italian and Bel
cian refugees were wholly unprerared
to end Finland wei, fed with pricer not
more than n third higher than those
prcvaiinE in soviet itu-si5 and 70 dis
cover that conditions were even better
! in Sweden,
Germany and Austria arc denounced
ns nerceiy as the entente by the boil
shcvik press whose aim Ia to create the
impression that all the world Is starv-
ing and demanding proietarset Eov-
ernment similar to that existing In
Russia.
Japan China and Siam are repre-
/ scntod as undergoing widespread revolt
| utions.
Firms Oppose Bolshevisn,.
! Instead Of there being q demand Tor
n hoshevik regime in Finland ne the
soviet papers represent. nine -tenths of
the Flnns hold ltp their hands In horror
whom bolshcviklsm is mentioned They
express n Willingness TO nnderso any
form OF government rather than reutrn
To the conditions under the regime nf
tho Rutsan Reds
! Most Of tho Finns, II appears, are not
monnrchists. n Is declared THAI not
| more than % per cent Of Chem. and
these In the vicinity Of Heisinxfors, de-
sirc to see Finland governed by 3 king
Even these prefer Scandinavian ruler.
| The republicans. however, are not will
Ing to assert themselves now. lest the
Red roisn of terror he renewed.
Propaganda Fails in Sweden.
The bolshevik idea Is equally forbid
ding TO the great majority Of the
Swedcs who have proflted by Finland's
experiences and arc paying no attention
to the propaganda the bolshevik
agents arc conducting In Stockholm
| There seems littic doubt, however
that Sweden and other neutral nntlnn;l
would he even more bitter In their at
titude toward the bolshcviki II they
understand the intnstlne done tha,.s s:.:s
!. the soviet papers and were given un-
biased reports saf tho horrors wrnught
1 In iIv ~ thr hnfshcviki IN TIM MaxnN 2