Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-28
BOLSHEvIK ARMY
WOULD RUN FROM
MODERN ORDNANCE
PruSSian Officers Say That
Armored Cars, Tanks and
Other Methods of Warfare
Could Settle the Problem,


Warsaw Tuesday Dec "a (by he
Associated Press) Russian officers
who have escaped from Bolsheviki
Russia to Warsaw. in discussing the
possibility of an allied military move
ment against the Bolsheviki, pointed
out To the correspondent today that
the Bolsheyiki would be unable to
resist a trained army The Bolshe-
wiki forces, they declared, would flee
before armored motor cars tanks and
other methods of modern warfare to
which they We're not accustomed.
Polish and Russian officers say
that if the Polish forces We're given
arms, airplanes and ammunition they
would soon constitute barrier
against the Bolsheviki, who are ad-
vancing across the old German front
of Narva Nitebsk NJ ohilev- Ko-
vel, which has been evacuated by
the German army oe General Hoff-
man
The Pussian officers said they
thought that If action against the
Bolsheviki We're delayed until spring,
the Bolshevili, provided their army
survives the food conditions this win
ter, may be stronger. The Bolshe-
wiki now are talking freely Of in
creasing their army to three million
men. The red army is an off-shoot
of the red guard and, the officers
say, the only dependable troops are
those that are highly paid
Rule Is Harsh.
Bolsheviki rule in Russia is de-
scribed by the officers as more
dreadful than that Of the old en-
pire and it is also more corrupt.
Money will buy judgments in the
courts. Prisoners are tortured their
legs and arms broken and some
tines their tongues are cut out.
The Bolsheviki, the officers con-
tinue, have been guilty of many ex-
cesses in Lithuania and the Ukraine.
At one place in the Ukraine the land
owners were arrested and locked up
in ii cellar which was flooded. Bands
consisting in part of criminals, cap
tured number of former imperial
officers at Pskov. The officers were
knouted and then hanged to trees
along the roads.
Society in Petrograd is divided into
four classes. In the first are the
heavy manual workers. In the second
class are the heavy mental workers.
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and small shop keepers. while the
fourth is made up of those who were
formerly wealthy, The fourth class
now is very limited in number.
War on Religion.
The refugees say that the govern.
ment has started propaganda
against religion. Ikons are being
taxed and school children are forced
to attend courses in atheism. Civil
marriages are replacing the religious
ceremonies. A divorce can be OBJ
tanned by signing a declaration of in
compatibility before civil magis-
trate.
The Russian fleet formerly based
at kronstadt is in the Neva river.
The sailors are selling much of the
equipment.
The Bolsheviki government has de-
clared furniture to be state property
and an authorization must be OBJ
tanned to move it. 4 family which
was attempting to make its way
from Moscow to Warsaw with two
carts loaded with furniture got as far
as Minsk, where the local council
decided it would keep the furniture.
A peasant discovered a piano among
the goods and he began to hop up
and down with his feet on the key
board, eXclaiming; Id
How nice it plays"