The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-09-26
TO REBUKE BOLSHEYIKl
BLOODY REIGN OF TERROR
CAUSES ACTION.
Suggestions Made to Civilized World.
Action Quite Apart From
Conduct of War.

upon all allied and neutral nations
to consider what they may do to i'm
press upon the Bolsheviki the aver
sion with which the civilized world
regards their wanton crimes.
By direction of President Wilson,
Secretary Lansing dispatched an iden-
tical instruction to every American
diplomatic representative in the for
eign capitals. The action aligns the
United States with that of Great Brit
ain and France in declaring the Boil
sheviki outlaws responsible for the
murders, crimes and eXcesses which
have shocked the world.
Whatever action may be decided
upon by the nations, separately or in
concert, it is made clear, will be quite
apart from the prosecution of the
war against Germany.
The instruction to the United
States representative at foreign cap
itals follows:
"This government is in receipt of
information from reliable sources re-
vealing that the peaceable citizens of
Moscow, Petrograd and other cities
are suffering from an openly avowed
campaign of marked terrorism and
are shot without even a form of trial
and are subject to wholesale eXecu-
tions. Thousands of persons have
been shot without even a form of
trial; ill-administered prisons are fill
ed beyond capacity and every night
scores of Russian citizens are reck-
lessly put to death; and irresponsible
hands are venting their brutal pas
sions in the daily massacre of untold
innocents.
Desire to Help.
''In view of the earnest desire of
the people of the United States to be-
friend the Russian people and lend
them all possible assistance in their
struggle to reconstruct their nation
upon principles Of democracy and
self-government, and acting therefore
solely in the interest Of the Russians
themselves, this government feels
that it can not be silent or refrain
from expressing horror at this state
of terrorism. Furthermore, it is be-
lieved that in order to check the fur
ther increase of the indiscriminate
slaughter of Russian citizens, all civil
lized nations should register their alb
horrence of such barbarism.
"You will inquire, therefore,
whether the government to which
you are accredited will be disposed
to take some immediate action which
is entirely devoid from the atmos
phere of belligerency and the conduct
of the war, to impress upon the per-
petrators of these crimes the aversion
with which civilization regards their
present wanton acts"
Report of Alliance.
The reported action of the Bolshe
wiki in effecting an alliance with Ger
many for offense and defense, is an
added cause for the step.
Official reports from Russia, many
coming through neutral countries
have told of revolving acts that have
astounded and shocked the world.
The reign of terror has already great
ly hindered the efforts of the United
States to alleviate an impending fam
ine in Russia, as it is impossible to
furnish much needed supplies to that
part of the country under Bolsheviki
control without actually feeding the
German army and the German popu-
lation. 1t is conceded that there is
enough food in Southeastern Russia
and western Siberia to feed all the
Russian people if means of distri-
button could be effected to keep the
supplies from falling into German
hands.
The alliance between the Bolshe-
Wiki and Germany presents danger
out situation to the allies in that it
may afford Germany an opportunity
greatly to increase her waning man
power.
Secretary Lansing today reiterated
that the efforts of American troops at
Vladivostok and Archangel were sole
ly to aid the Czecho-Slovaks to leave
Russia for the western front and not
to establish an eastern battle front or
in any way to interfere with the in
ternal affairs of Russia.
The conduct of the Bolsheviki
against which today's protest was
directed, is considered an entirely
separate phase of the Russian situa-
ton. A protest which the United
States made some years ago to Tur-
l.