Evening star., 1918-07-21
SAYS THAT RUSSIA
MUST COME BACK
Social Revolutionary Party
Leader Sees Two Chances
for BoIsheviki Fall. a..
BoCHEs RAvAGING RUSSIA

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By BAssETT DIGBY.
CabIegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1918.
STOCKHOLM. Sweden, July 1s.-
Russia must come back for prompt
re-establishment of the east front
and a vigorous warfare against Ger
many is necessity for Russia and
the world democracy" said D. Cav
rovsky, a member Of the constituent
assembly and a prominent member OF
the social revolutionary party. who
has just arrived in Stockholm from
Petrograd. He has credentials from
his party as q delegate.
I'VE ask the entente to intervene
as a counter blow against the pres.
ent pernicious German Intervention"
he continued. First. the bolshevik
regime must be overthrown and the
constituent assembly must meet ana
delegate authority to cabinet"
"Will the bolsheviki be able to con-
tinue their domination7" he was asked.
You can Judge for yourself. AT
this moment redistribution OF
wealth is proceeding. A class OF
small CAPITALISTS mas dElbcus kh0
great landowners have disappeared.
Unfortunately. the distribution OF the
land among the peasants has not oc-
Cured Justly. In the villages there
has arisen class OF rich peasants
called 'kulaks.' who exploit their
poor neighbors- Industry has gone
back in many places and this naturally
is a detriment to the workmen, but the
bolsheytk are quite helpless when con-
fronted by the problem Of the reor-
ganization of production. 1t is true
that a few labor groups. who. by the
misuse Of the power which the boil
sheviki has given them. make mucn
money. and also that control over IN
dustry serves to enrich certain groups
of workers. Naturally these are
zealous supporters OF the ooisnev.kL.
but II becomes clearer all the time
why larger and larger sections OF the
population are opposing the so-caileo
peoples government.
Abandoning the Bolshevfh-
"At the election Of the constituent
assembly I noticed that where the
supplies of food in the villages were
greater the fewer bolshevikf were
elected. Now the condition has oeen
changed In the hungry regions the
people have learned that civil war
conditions, the disorganixation OF
transports and the repression OF the
banks in +. facilitating all eea-heip.
not only Of private ORGANIZATIONS put
bad mAthod .for procuf1ng bread for
the people 4liS doDseQuence has been
that the bolshevik policy has been
abandoned in theory and the dfssatis-
faction Of the people has expressed
itself in results. In Kostroma, Mini
where food Is abundant the bolsheviki
still lose adherents on account OF the
realisation that bolshevism plays
Germany's game.
"As to the workmen, small num-
bers of them still cling to their IL
bolsheviki has shown that this Is not
real socialism and cannot create q
socfalistic state any moro than the
bolshevik signature to the Brest-Li-
tovsk treaty creates a~General peace.
The labor masses In Petrograd. espe-
Obukhon and Putilof. have many
times appealed to us to lead them
against tho bolsheviki. They do not
revolt because they realize that their
armed strength is insufficient to cope
with the bolsheviki, who have q mo-
nopoly Of arms. There Is no doubt
where their sympathies lie.
Fix Elections to Mislead.
observers unacquainted with the
real conditions might perhaps think
that the latest soviet elections in
MOSCOW and Petrograd indicated q
bolshvist predominancy. but these
elections were manipulated In order
to mislead the world. In the prov
inces where the bolsheviki are noe
elections. In q number Of sovtets
the social revolutionaries were over
whelmingly in the majority. but
where this happened the bolshevtki
sent troops and forcibly dissolved the
new soviets. However. 1t is charac-
teristic that the great mass of work
men are weary Of politics and have
fallen into apathy. Everything TENDS
to show that 1t will be very hard to
depose the bolsheviki through the
cause the bolsheviki themselves do
mot rely on this but are availfng
themselves Of foreign troops or
threaten to do 30 even II they are
not in actual use. In Moscow there
are 5000 well .nns., sTmsd Lets rsa ~naray msny
and even q Chinese battalion. which
has recently been used. among other
purposes, for execution.
"The bolsheviki are also supported
by organized bands Of German prison.
ers. who at the command Of the Ger
many embassv suddenly become In
tsrnationalists and bolsheviki at the
exact moment when the bolshevtkt
most need help. We are convinced
that the union Of bolshevikf ana.
Germans is now closer than ever.
ana that II they are needed the Ger
mans are ready to place great num-
hers of troops at their disposition.
When recently large bodies OF Fetro-
grad workmen contemplated depos.
ing the bolsheviki they were deferred
by the fact that at Terijoki. twenty
miles away and Just inside the Fin
uish frontier. q strong German cav
airy detachment was stationed
"On the day when the bolshevik1
are without German support and nnd
themselves face to face with the
people In armed strife, the bolshevfkrs
power will surely be broken. but the
Germans will not withhold their sup
port" ... ,.,. -, =.
freed otherwise than by entente in
terventionr'
Getting Firmly Under Hun Yoke.
'-rhe inevitable result Of prevailing
conditions il that Russia IL daily
placed moro firmly under the German
yoke Those bolshevfki who declared
that they signed the Brest-Litovsk
treaty only as protest. now DO
everything that Germany orders with
Russia has been robbed Of her
most fruitful provinces. The Ukrain-
ian peasants are subjected to In
descrfbable tortureB, while the Ger