Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-09
People Of Country Receive
Fantastic Tales From
America and Allies.
WORLD GETS FEW FACTS

refugees who have just arrived here
from Russian territory. They were
likewise much surprised to lnd Fin
land and Sweden in such a normal
condition.
The bolshevik and German newspa-
pers and propagandists have the field
all to themselves in supplying Russia
with what information they choose
regarding outside affairs, and they also
monopolize the reports going out OF
the country. Bolshevik Russia now
stands in absolute telegraphic isola-
ton from the rest of the world with
the single exception of the outlet
through Germany. Telegraphing Is no
longer possible through the Ukraine,
Finland, Siberia or north Russian
ports. Consequently the bolshevik
wireless service and the berman-cen-
sored and German colored dispatches
alone supply the outside world with
Russian news.
Charges of Unfairness.
AS matter of fact there is constant
friction between the bolsheviki and the
Germans over the transmission OF IN
formation and they are making whole
sale charges and counter charges OF
unfairness in the treatment of the
news. Meantime the neutral nations
as well as the belligerents are suffer.
ing from the Rerni!clogs campale1ni+ ian e1i++Pa Ga
foreign news except that which 1ndl-
Gates weakness on the part OF the
entente powers and the strength of
the central empires. Ihe oolsnevlkl
sition newspapers. but the government
now actually prints and controls the
few journals that are still appearing
in Petrograd and Moscow.
The Associated Press correspondent
at Moscow, who left Russia with the
recently arrived party and is filing
this dispatch, can testify that the
Americans remaining in Russia were
treated to many announcements that
the Indians were opposing conscrip-
ito over all America and that the
United States was again in the throes
of Indian war. The people of the
United States also were described as
starving for the lack of such COM
modities as sugar and flour, and gem
eral predictions were made that the
allied activities on the western and
Italian fronts would fail. because the
United States and Canada could not
furnish the necessary bread.
Such stories were so ridiculous that
they gained no credence among the
educated foreigners. Nor did they be-
starvation in England, where persons
were pictured as falling dead from
hunger in the principal London
streets.
Aim of Bolsheyik Press.
Finland and Sweden, concerning
which most of the foreigners in Rus
sia had little knowledge. were repre-
scented to be in such distress from
foods riots that the Americana Italian
and Belgian refugees were wholly un-
prepared to find Finland compare
lively we'll fed, with prices not more
than third Of those prevailing IN
soviet Russia, and to discover that
den. Germany and Austria are de-
nounced as fiercely as the entente by
the bolshevik press. whose constant
aim is to create the impression that
all the world is starving ana oemano-' 11o-
ing a proletariat government similar
to that existing in Russia. Japan,
China and Siam are represented as
undergoing widespread revolutions:
Instead of there being demand for
a bolshevik regime in Finland, as the
soviet papers represent, nine-tenths
of the Firms hold up their hands IN
horror when bolshevism Is mentioned.
They express willingness to accept
most any kind of a government rather
than undergo another period OF riot
and bloodshed such as that in which
the Russian reds had involved them.
Most of the Firms, 1t appears. are
not monarchists. 1t is declared that
probably not more than Is per cent
Of them, and these mostly in the vi
cinity of Helsingfors, desire to see
Finland governed by king. Even
these prefer q Scandinavian ruler.
The republicans, however. are not
the red reign Of terror be renewed.
Propaganda Ineffective.
The bolshevik idea is equally forbid
ding to the great majority Of the
Swedes, who have profited by Fin
lands experiences, and are paying no
attention to the violent propaganda
the bolshevik agents are conducting
in Stockholm. There seems little
doubt, however. that Sweden and
other of the neutral nations would be
even more bitter in their attitude to-
ward the bolsheviki II they fully un-
derstood the injustice being done
them in the soviet papers and PAM
phlets, and were given unbiased re-
ports daily Of the horrors wrought by
and the constant violation Of all the
laws recognized by civilized nations.
SECRETARY BAKER LAUDS
MOUNT VERNON'S CREW