The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-12
Bolsheviki Tried TO Exc
cute Everyone Who Dis
agreed With Them
END OF TERRORISM
Is NOT In SIGHT
Nights Made Hideous In
Cities By Volleys OF
Executioners
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Stockholm, Sept. 12.--Ju1y and
August were months Of horror which
never will be forgotten by persons
who watched Russia's two great cities
--Petrograd and MoscoW--pass
through the mad attempt Of the Boil
sheyiM to shoot or impTison all per-
sons who disagreed with their wild
efforts to control crumbling European
Russia. September probably will be
worse, for the opposition parties are
gaining strength through despera-
ton.
The lives of the nom Bolsheviki are
unsafe and everywhere in Russia self
defense is forcing unwilling belliger-
ents to take commissions for the sup
preston Of a counter revolution
and shoto down the Beurgeoise by
the hundreds.
Leon Trotzlsy, the Bolshevilli minis
ter Of war, evidently is determined
that his dictatorship Of the proletariat
shall not repeat the history OF the
former provisional government and
fail through being too merciful.
Gives No Quarter.
Ex- premier Kerensky refused to
impose the death penalty and his gov
eminent fell almost without the loss
Of life, but observers Of the Rus-
sian political situation say that no
such bIoodless end can come to the
Soviet republic. It has given no quar-
ter and It will receive none.
Trotzky has said in his speeches
that Moscow will be reduced to ashes
before 1t is surrendered. Yaroslav, a
town on the Volga, 100 miles north
east Of Moscow, was burned for re-
sisting Bolsheviki domination and
VoIogda, ITO miles north Of Yaroslav,
is reported to have suffered the same
fate.
Night has been hideous in Moscow
for months because Of the Volleys
from execution squads in the military
enclosures where prisoners are kept
Foreigners and Russians alike were
searched without warrants and the
Red Guards marched crowds of men
and women prisoners through the
streets with such regularity that pc
destrians hardly noticed them.
German Ambassador Fled.
DR.. Karl Helfferich, the German
ambassador at Moscow, rushed back
to Berlin and reported to his govern
ment that Moscow was in such a
state Of anarchy that the embassy
could not stay there, and he is alleged
to have advised discontinuance Of
diplomatic relations with the Soviet
power. i. -
! There is little wonder. that Ambas-
sador FIe1fferich had such an i'm
3pression. Two attempts were made
on HIS life while he was in Moscow.
This is the first news to come out
Of Russia Of an attempt being made
against the life Of the new German
ambassador at Moscow. His prede-
cessor, Count Won Mirbach, was as
sassinated.
Shots were heard everywhere, day
and night, and motor lorries filled
with armed soldiers dashed nadly
through the streets with utter dis
regard for the life Of civilians. The
actual fighting which took place in
the streets Of Moscow on July7. when
the city was under artillery fire for
several hours was far less terrifying
to the public than were the endless
days Of sheer brutality when the SOL
diers imposed on the helpless public
by virtue OF their arms. IS ~ p .
Men who have refused to fight the
CzecroLSIovaks on the Volga have
been arrested. Even the helpless and
paralytic and one old woman more
than 80 years old. have been taken
into custody. 80