Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-12
BoI8heHki Chiefs Shoot and
ImpriSon Persons Who Dis
Regard Their Alleged Efforts
to Save Russia,
NECESSITY C0MPELS
PEOPLE TO GO ARMED
Trotzky Declares Moscow VIII
Be Reduced to Ashes Before
1t Is Surrenderedi Two
Towns Reported Burned.

far 'ieRsEu JouPsAL SPECIAL LEASED wiREI
Stockholm, Tuesday, Sept 10 (by
the Associated Press July and Au-
gust 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 ef-
forts to control crumbling European
Russia, September probably will be
worse for the opposition parties are
gaining strength through desperation
The lives of the nom Bolsheviki are
unsafe and everywhere in Russia self.
defense is forcing unwilling belliger-
ents to take UP arms against the ruth.
less persecution of the so-called CONF
missions for the suppression of a coun-
ter revolution which shoot down the
bourgeoise by the hundreds.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik minis
ter of war, evidently is determined
that his dictatorship of the proletariat
will not repeat the history of the for
mer provisional government and fail
through being too merciful
Ex-Premier Kerensky refused to inn
pose the death penalty and his gov
ernment fell almost without the loss
of q life, but observers OF the RUS
sian political situation say that no
such bloodless end can come to the
soviet republic. 1t has given no quar-
ter and it will receive none.
Leaders plan TO Fight.
Premier I.enine, War Minister
TrotzlSy. sverdloff, president OF the
central executive committee. and other
EAtehnuiI- IaaHaro nd h.
doubtless will fight as long as a sih-
gle soldier remains loyal to them.
Trotzky has said in his speeches
that Moscow will be reduced to ashes
before it is surrendered Yaroslav,
a town on the Volga, so miles north
east of Moscow, was burned for resist
ing Boshevik domination, and Vo-
logda, 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 warrant and the Red
Guards marched crowds of men and
women prisoners through the streets
with such regularity that pedestrians
hardly noticed them.
Marie Spiridonova, q social revolu-
tionary leader, charged in her memoir
able speech made before the all-Rus-
sian soviet congress at Moscow on
July 4 that Bolshevik rule was more
tyrannical than that Of the late enn-
peror, ana the reign of terror had
scarcely begun at that time.
Hefffericb Scared Out.
DIR. Karl Helfferich. the German
ambassador at Moscow, rushed back
to Berlin and reported to his gov-
ernment that Moscow was in such q
state of anarchy that the embassy
could not stay there and he is alleged
to have advised discontlnuance of
diplomatic relations with the soviet
power
There is little wonder that Ambas-
sador Helfferich had such an impress
sion. 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 1orries filled with
armed soldiers dashed madly through
the streets with utter disregard for
the life of civilians. The actual fight
ing which took place in the streets of
Moscow on July Z, when the city was
under artillery fire for several hours
was far less terrifying to the public
than we're the endless days of sheer
brutality when the soldiers imposed
on the helpless public by virtue or
their arms.
Men who have refused to fight the
Czecho -Sloyaks on the Volga have
! cen arrested Even the helpless and
paralytic and the old women, more
than eighty years old, have been
taken into custody.
Paid With His Life.
Such Is the wild campaign carried
on by the Bolshegiki under the guiss
OF sEppressing d counter revolution.
Moses Uritzky. WI mercilessly direct
ed activity of this sort in Petrograd,
paid for it with his life. but Dzerzhin-
sky still continues his frantic perse-
cution of civilians in Moscow Form
er army officers are the greatest suf-
ferers at the hands of this wild search
for counter revolutionaries, but il ex-
tends to all sections of the bourgeoisie
Not content with seizing the prop
erty Of the educated classes, the Boil
sheviM are now harassing them In
every possible way. A brutal class war
is encouraged by exhortations daily in
the Bolshevik newspapers to continue
attacks upon the bourgeoisie and even
to take their lives. But bad as condi-
tions are now in Moscow and in Pet
rograd, a worse situation is expected
by the intelligent classes IL an inter-
regnum takes place. The spirit OF ven-
geance is so strong and the feeling so
bitter against the Jewish leaders, ar
rivals here from Russia say, that riot
ing against the Jews generally ID
feared. Such riots never are confined
To nna class in Rliasia hut axnand