The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-30
RUSS PEASANTS
HAVE DEVELOPED
HATRED OF HUNS
Russians Who Refused to
Fight Now Reported Eager
to Take up Arms.
(By Associated Press)

PETROGRAD, July 30. - Refugees
from the Russian provinces occupied
by Teuton troops bring reports of con-
stantly growing hatred among the
peasants or the Germans.
In the vicinity of Pakov. Esthonia
confiscation of foodstuffs by the invad-
ers led to two uprisings by the peas
ants. In the latest Of these uprisings,
the peasants had been Informed by
some one that American and Japanese
troops were to help them. This hoped
for aid, however, naturally did not ma
terialize and the uprising met with
disastrous results. A number of the
peasants were executed and all the
manor houses in four whole towns
were razed by the Germans as an OBJ
ject lesson, according to word reach
ing Petrograd.
In the Pakov region, it is declared
the Germans have conflscated all the
foodstuffs they can carry away except
for a small allowance of grain for
each inhabitant.
There is starvation among the work
ing classes in Riga, on the Baltic, ac-
cording to reports reaching here. I'm
der the Germans, the bread allowance
has been often as low as one pound a
month per person
REVULSiON OF FEELING
NEW YORK, July 30.-Much politi-
cal importance is attached to reports
from Bolshevik sources that there is
a decided revulsion of feeling against
the Germans among the Russian peas
antry by Hans Worst, writing in the
Tageblatt of Berlin, on June Is, copy
of which has been received here. He
says that the same peasants who only
a few months ago could not be kept
in the trenches are now reported to
be in state of evaporation.
Stories have been spread among
them that in the areas Of the Ukraine
and White Russia, occupied by the
Germans, large landed estates have
been restored to their former own
ers. They fear. the writer adds, that
the Germans might also come to them
and that they will lose the land which
they have been holding for six months.
These fears are said to have aroused
in them an inclination to take up arms.
Worst points out that it is known
that the socialist parties in Russia
opposed to the Bilsheviki are not dis
posed to accept the Brest-Litovsk
treaty. The Bolsheviki he says, still
stand by the treaty. but they believe
the German government desires to
take measures exceeding its terms, and
to undermine the soviet regime In
Russia.
Favor of Resumption Of War;
The German writer refers to the ne
gotiations begun in Berlin in June to
over the Brest- Litovsk treaty. e
mentions a Stockholm telegram quot
ing an article in the Bolshevik official
newspaper Izvestia, indicating that
Russia, unless matters are adjusted,
will consider the question of abandon
ing its peaceful attitude. He says that
many other sources report that there
is strong movement in Russia favor
ing a resumption of a state of war.
should the negotiations not result sat
isfactorily.
Opinion in Soviet circles, he con-
tinues, is that the main hindrance to
the realization of their social political
plans lies in the measures taken by
the German government since the con-
clusion of peace. He refers in this
connection to the German military op-
erations in the Ukraine, in the Bonetz
basin and in the Don area, by which
the soviet government has been de-
prived of coal and food resources.
"The article in the Izvestia," Worst
declares, speaks of open and conceal
ed attempts by Germany to smother
the Russian revolution. These fears
are unfounded German policy is alb
solutely willing to find a satisfactory
and reliable accord with the soviet
But the described Rus
sian sentiments must be borne in mind
in judging the situation in which the
new negotiations begin.