The sun., 1918-12-30
PETR0GRAD ON ROAD
TO PHYSICAL RUIN
Principal Streets Are Filthy
and Many Buildings
Boarded Up.
TROTZKY, MORAL LEPER
Murders and Tortures Directed
by Him-Children Learn
Atheism.
TROTZKY, MORAL LEPER
ny J. NJ. JEFFRIEs.
Special Gable Despatch to THE suS from tht
London Tim,s SerIice,

ny J. NJ. JEFFRIES.
Special Gable Despatch to THE suS from the
London TimGs Serrice.
Copyright. 1918: oil rights reserved.
WARSAW, Dec. 29.-In Petrograd
there appears to the outward eye more
order than has reigned for long months,
II is, however, much the same kind
city is in moral ruin and or It's way
10 being a physical one.
The Nevsky Prospect and all the
principal streets are filthy and uncared
for. Many buildings have been boarded
up. In the streets no one can be seen
but children and men In dirty. unkempt
clothing, the sole exceptions being those
wealthy Germanic Russians who are in
collusion with Trotsky. These latter, to
whose class. as Is known, Trotsky HIM
obtained genuine immunity from the
massacres and %exactions OF the Boil
sheviki. 4
Some few wero arrested al the be-
ginning Of the terror. but afterwards
released. Their money Is more power
fll to-day than II was under ever the
Cars regime. and they go clothed as
they please. live as they please. While
Trctsky officially placards his hatred
OF the capitalist. capital turns all the
wheels in Petrograd, and almost any
thing can be done or obtained for money
provided a certain amount Of murder
and pillage is permitted the Red
Guards. II now costs 5000 to have a
letter delivered to anyone in prison.
This is a fair example OF the unlver-
sal scale Of bribery.
False Passports Plentiful.
Nearly everybody in PetroRrad has
got a false passport proclaiming him a
manual worker of some type or other.
This is the only safeguard against ar
rest. which means the disbursing of huge
sums OF money to be freed, or may mean
death. A sort of ensus was recently
made dividing the population into four
casses-the heavy workers, the brain
workers OF the Soviet and kindred Off
GERS, the lesser bourgeoisie and the arch
Nourgeoisie.
OF the last only about 5000 are classi-
ned, as the designation is so dangerous.
and their numbers will steadily decrease
a. they receive false papers from one
or other OF the recognized purveyors
who are leagued with the Soviet dele
gates. No one knows how many are
in the prisons. and executions take place
HHcIHOulCally among THOSE WHO cannon
buy themselves out. The chief victims
are army officers.
There Is a sort of Jacobin court which
meets in a street whose name is now
Infamous TO the ears of Russians-the
Garochovaia. or Street Of Peas. The chief
JuGge Is an obese Jewess with oiled
locks who Tolls OF a seat while all around
her press her crew of Soviet delegates.
largely consisting Of more or less self
daaf0natad n1amhnrG Thfq rnnTt 10
called the extraordinary committee
fighting the counter revolution. specula-
ton and ss botaRe."
This woman nominally condemns five
or six officers a dag. but how many
deaths occur among the prisoners really
no one knows. Among those imprisoned
are Grand Dukes Sergius, Constantine
Paul and Alexander, and the literary
Grand Duke Nicholas. Arrests are madt
a. the sweet will Of any Soviet delegate
or group Of soldiers.
Spies I'm TrotEky's Service.
All spies OF the Old imperial regime
are now in the service of Trotzky WITH
q new. diabolically efficient group, wlc
always can obtain access to him. De
nunciations by telephone are very coul.
mon. Anonymous persons ring up g
Garochovaia Court, declaring that q
given individual is an enemy OF the So.
Wet and the name then is entered in q
hook for immediate arrest. The fami-
lies OF those arrested. unless they car
bribe. remain in ignorance of the where.
abouts Of those carried of. Some un.
fortunate women. whose husbands had
tcrs, which being opened, contained the
Phrase You may consider yourself q
widow"
All foo Is practically reserved for the
soldiers of Trotzky's army. There have
been established by him eating houses ir
different districts of Petrogred. hut no.
body dare enter there without running
the risk of arrest In case his appearance
displeases those In charge.
The peasants smuggle bread and some
potatoes to the cowed population thai
stays at home. but even a nome is NJ
place OF safety, as soldiers may enter
any house and do as they please. Furni'
ture has been n~ationalized by a decree OF
Trotzky. and may he seized at will.
No piece of furniture may he moved
by the owner from his house or nat vita,
out permission.
Open War on Religion.
As might be expected. open war has
been declared upon all forms OF religion
Trotzky has given great attention to the
schools, into which carloads of his army
rations are sent regularly, so that III;
starving population will be sure to senG
their children where food awaits them
But in all the schools have been organ
ized compulsory lessons. beginning with
The youngest children. 10 train them &c
believe in the non-eXistence of the Divine
Being. These courses are pompouslS
termed atheism courses"
\ tax has been est ,bllshed upon the
lions. or sacred images of the Russian
Church. Divorce and marriage have
been made matters OF ten minutes and
aefoIe some vague official or Soviet
officers designated for the purpose. In.
compatibility OF temperament allows
a quick divorce.
These great evils, however, pale be.
fore some of the atrocities that are
being regularly committed in and out
Of the jails. in towns and in the country
n pursuance of TTotzky's policy OF ter
rorization. You nave been reading
merely of thousands being shot. There
Russia. Tales OF what happens In
prisons such as the Peter n Paul are
shocking. but exact evidence OF the hap.
penings outside the prisons is bad
Cnou.h for anybody.
Let mo quote one example recounted
by n fugitive bearing an Irish name who
IS now in WARSAW, He was In Moscow
when the RED Guards, acting upon a
denunciatlon, burst into his fiat where
several friends were together.
illustration Is Given.