Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-12
WHOLE OF CARS
FAMILY MURDERED

1895; Grand Duchess Tatiana, born
in 1897; Grand Duchess Marie, born
in 1899 and Grand Duchess Anas-
tasia, born in 1901.
The former Empress Alexandra
was born Princess Alix of Hesse, in
1872.
Recent Rome advices reported that
the Pope had taken steps to assist
out of Russia the former Empress
and her TOUR daughters, who had
made pressing appeals for their lib
Grafton.
A later dispatch from London re-
ported the assassination of Alex
andra and her daughters. but this
rumor was doubted in Spain, where
King Alfonso had taken steps to OBJ
tain their transfer to Madrid, where
preparations were being made for
their reception.
Stockholm, Sept. H. July 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
sheviki to shoot or imprison all per-
sons who disagreed with their wild
efforts to control crumbling Euro-
pean Russia. September probab bly,
parties are gaining strength through
desperation.
The lives of the non Bolsheviki are
unsafe and everywhere in Russia
self-defense is forcing unwilling bel
| ligerents to take up arms against the
| ruthless persecution of the so-calied
| commissions for the suppression of a
| counter revolution which shoot down
the bourgeoisie by the hundred.
TrotzlSy Threatens Pillage
Leon TrotZky, the Bolshevik min
lister of war, evidently is determined
that his dictatorship of the proletar-
| lat shall not repeat the history of the
rmcr provisional government and
| fail through being too merciful.
He has said in speeches that Mos
| COW will be reduced to ashes before
it is surrendered. Taroslav, a Gown
on the Volga 100 miles northeast oi
Moscow, was burned for resisting
Bolshevik domination, and Vologda
110 miles north of Paroslav is re
| ported to have suffered the same
| fate.
Night has been hideous in MOSCOW
| for months because of the Volleys
| from execution squads in the mill
| tary enclosures where prisoners are
kept. Foreigners and Russians alike
where searched without warrants
and the Red Guards marched crowds
of men and W omen prisoners through
| the streets with such regularity thai
pedestrians hardly noticed them.
Rule Worse Than Emperor's
Marie Spiridonova, Social Revo-
lutionary leader, charged in her
| memorable speech made before the
! All-Russian Soviet congres at Mos
! COW on July 4 that Bolshevik rule
was more tyrannical than that Of :he
late Emperor. and the reign of ter
ror scarcely had begun at that time
DIR. Karl Helfferich, the German
ambassador at Moscow. rushed back
to Berlin and reported to his gov
ernment that Moscow was in such a
| state of anarchy that the embassy
| could not stay there, and he Is al
| legged to have advised a discontinue
ance of diplomatic relations with the
| Soviet power.
There is little wonder that Ambas-
sador Helfferich had such an impress
sion. Two attempts were made or
| 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).
Life Is Disregardcd
Shots were heard everywhere dan
and night and motor lorries filled
with armed soldiers dashed ma'dlS
| through the streets with utter disre-
gard for the life of civilians. The ac-
! tual fighting which took place in the
streets of Moscow on July 7 when