Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-11-15
RED RUIN IN RUSSIA.
Japanese Consul General Describe
Conditions AS He Left Them.

Japanese ConSul SeneTai CesCT'pes
Conditions AS He Left Them.
Two British liners arrived at an At
antir port with passengers and mails
rom England but they did not burn
.hcir deck lights on approaching th'
\mcrican coast or steer direct course
or port. on the contrary. according
% the officers the steamships at night
retained their state of inky darkness
md zig-za-gcd continuously urtil they
pickcd up the pilot at the entrance oi
the harhor.
Among tho first cabin passengers
WAS Kyo Kumasaki. Japanese ConSu'
ccrr,.l to Moscow who. when he was
leaving pctroErad in September haG
= narrow escape for his life from inc
HoIshcviki rabblc which had at'ackeu
tho british Embassy on the NcFsk'
prospcct and killed some OF the OIL
ficers.
Tho conditions in Russia today 'he
Consul General said. are impossioi'
% imagine unless one mas Soh'
,hrourh the experience OF this great
,st horror since the. French Rerolu-
,ion The Bolshcviki arc crazy VIII"
vodka and fear that the former OH
GERS of the Russian Army Will aiu 'h'
Allies in running them down and en-
terminating them. Hence to aVoio
this risl; the Bolshcviki guards arrest
cycry man who looks like an oihcer
,r1 scnd him to krondstadt.whcrc ne
TO promptly shot without any form
of trial. Grass grows in the s'ree's
If pctroSrad and dead horses lie thcre'
when the headquarters OF the DOL
,hcyiki Government was ut fetrograo
In, was the worst city in Russia
nm, now that the headquarters mas Deeh
rop,ovcd TO Moscow the reputation loi
,,.ii has zone also. PctroSrad is a mori-
n,pd CITY and the people are so wretch
,d and cast down that do not Kno"
ow they exist. The poor cannct get
,;I,o so they drink a mixture COM
no;rd of benzinc, kerosene. and deih-
,,rrcd alcohol. The effect OF TINS
iuuid is to make men hate themselves
- the Consulate we could obtain re"
i,cs like clarct for 800 bottle'
homnagne ut $500 and brandy at Sioo
, hot,le. Bread ut $40 pound. Meat
too expensive for ordinary persons
.,yior can be obtained in AoSco"
till. hut no one thinks about II any
more.
"rhc Russian mujik. or peasant
: powcrlcss to help himself, as ne mas
10 arms, no leaders, no ORGANIZATIONS
nd does not know how to think. Help
rom outside alone can save the muJik'
lie is the awful example of centuries
of oppression and tyranny and has no
;pirit TO resist the Bolsheviki. There
arc 10000, 900 people in Russia who
must he saved from themselves. OF
lsc they will all die. 1t Is pitiful 10
soc that great country in such stat.
Of chaos.
The Czecho- -Slovaks are not large
force TO carry on such great WORK
OF reform Many OF them are in Sio-
ria and not in Russia proper. The
PEASANTS are angry ut the Bolshevikl
now because the latter sent men from
the factories in the big cities. Ike Pet-
orrad and Moscow. to steal the food
tufts from the granaries and they
would take charge of the country at
once if they had arms and leader.
In the cities II is wonderful that the
masses can exist on what they are able
20 obtain for the support of themselves
and their families. The Germans are
in Moscow looking after their business
affairs. but they do not mingle in local
politics as they are afraid TO make too
much noise. The only newspapers
that can be obtained in Russia are the
sheets. about notcpapcr size. from
the Bolsheviki agencies and the Ger
man newspapers sent in by train from
Berlin"
Consul General Kumasaki said that
he had heard of the burning to death
of the former Empress and her dau-
ghtcr at Ekaterinburg from persons
who had asserted they had seen their
ashes. but did not know it OF his
own personal knowledge. He believed
that Russia would turn again to au-
tocracy. 1t was big country. he said.
and needed governing with firm hand
until discipline was restored.
The British admiralty announces
the output Of Allies tonnage in the
last quarter exceeded the losses from
all causes nearly half a million gross