The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-04
CONDITIONS
 WITHIN RUSSIA ARE TERRIBLE Daughter of Russian Dip Iomat Writes Class
 mate in u. s. of
 Disorders. NO LAW OR ORDER NOW Most of Leaders Seem Bent Only on Loot and Murder; to Escape
 Later.
NO LAW OR ORDER NOW

NEW YORK, May 31.-The dis tress, hopelessness and chaos which overwhelmed the well-to-do and off cial classes in the Russian Revolu tion are wildly portrayed from. the standpoint of Russian woman in letter received by her former class mate in this country. The writer is daughter of a Russian diplomat who was connected with the Russi an Embassy in Washington about twenty years ago and a widow of an officer in the Russian army who was killed early in the war.
 "Russia, crushed by exterior and interior enemies, Justly despised and abhorred by the great countries that once trusted her. is ruined and disappearing, she wrote. My country is ceasing to exist It was bad enough before the March reyo- lution, when our unhappy, half witted Emperor, under the influence of his German wife, seemed to do everything possible to make people lose patience. We have a thousand anonymous potentates, the top ones paid by Germany, and the lower ones lured into supporting them by money, money and money.
 "The present government has abol- ished all laws, all courts, the police, land-ownership, all private real-es- tate in towns, all distinction Of castes and grades in the army and navy. They have seized all the banks, are opening all the privates safes and confscating all gold and : silver found therein though it had never been said before that it was criminal to have it.
 "Of course everything they de ! cree is so mad that it is quite sure not to last forever, but s the chaos they will make will take centuries 1 to forget. The country is going back to a savage state And we will not live to wait for better times.
 "All Russia is suffocating-every day brings new surprises that show there is but one way out of 1t the grave On the ground of lib erty they abolish all laws, judges, attorneys, and substitute for 1t peoples courts of justice with only soldiers. workmen or peasants, often quite illierate and always without the slightest knowledge of court proceedings, taking the places or
 the former judiciary.
 On the same ground they abolish
 all police, let loose all the criminals
 from the prisons, arm them, con stituting from their number togeth- CT with workmen, deserters and
 hooligans a red guard and fill the prisons to their utmost with all those, who crave for orders and will not work together with them to-
 wards the total ruin of the coun-
 try.
 con the pretense of equality
 they abolish all grades in the army
 and navy and make all posts cleo ;, tive by the simple soldiers. In most
 places it is understood as complete extermination, lynching of the off cers, who, for being better educat- ed, are under suspicion of being counter revolutionary The high est posts are occupied by elected soldiers who very often can hardly sign their names, and the former officers are made simple soldiers with
 a soldiers pay of $3.50 month and ordered to the lowest tasks: clean
 ing of the barracks, cooking food,
 taking care of the horses.
 "Our great country could only
 exist when all the wheels of the
 Government were working in har- mony. Now everything is per feet chaos. Everybody was willing
 to throw over the Czaristic govern ment, but not in order to change
 it for this one, of loot, anarchy and treason toward our allies! Oh, the shame. the disgrace and the folly of it!
 'The army which now consists
 of young boys (the regular one is ) long ago killed) without any sense of duty, morals and discipline, see
 their acquired freedom in the free dom to go home when they want to- And So all the trains, all the
 stations, are attacked and destroy
 ed by this horde of Savages, who
 kill engineers, if it seems to them
 the train goes too slowly, who
 martyrize the railway agents who tell them of the impossibility of
 starting their train for there is an-