The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-12
TO FIGHT TO LAST
Lenine and Trotzky VIII Never
Give Up.
Russian Masses Plead for AS
sistance From Allies.

Stockholm. Sept. 12.-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 thru the
mad attempt of the Bolsheviki to
shoot or imprison all persons who dis
agreed with their wild efforts to con-
troll crumbling European Russia. Sep
TENDER probably will be worse, for the
opposition parties are gaining strength
thru desperation.
Leon. Trotzky, the Bolsheviki min
lister of war. evidently is determined
shall not repeat the history of the for
mer provisional government and fail
thru being too merciful. 1t has given
no quarter and it will receive none.
Premier Lenine, War Minister
Trotzky, Sverdloff, president of the
Bolshevik leaders realize this and they
doubtless will fight as long as a sin
gle soldier remains loyal to them.
Trotzky has said in his speeches that
Moscow will be reduced to ashes be-
| fore it is surrendered. Yaroslav, a
town on the Volga 160 miles northeast
of Moscow, was burned for resisting
Bolshevik domination, and Vologda,
ITO miles north of Yaroslav, is report
ed to have suffered the same fate.
DIR. Karl Helffericf, the German
| ambassador at Moscow, rushed back
to Berlin and reported to his govern
ment that Moscow was in such a state
of anarchy that the embassy could mot
stay there and he is alleged to have
advised discontinuance of diplomatic
| relations with the soviet power.
Tried to XIII Helfferich.
| 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 predeces-
sor, Count Won Mirbach, was assas-
sinated.l
| A brutal class war is encouraged by
exhortations daily in the Bolshevist
newspapers to continue attacks upon
the bourgeoisie and even to take their
lives.
and the feeling SO bitter against the
Jewish leaders. arrivals here from
Russia say that rioting against the
Jews generally is feared. Such riots
never are confined to one class in
! Russia, but expand into general mur-
der and plumber.
Russians Plead for Outside Help.
The Russians are helplessly pleading
for outside assistance to cure them OF
their political troubles.
The Constitutional Democratic party
and the other parties of the extreme
Right, however, are in such disfavol
with the great mass of Russians of the
I Center that foreign diplomats are moi
willing to take them seriously.
The Czecho-S1ovak movement be.
| yond the River Volga has gained the
support of factions favoring a con-
stituent assembly. and it is making
the more reactionary program impos.
sible, as Siberia generally. is conceded
to be the key to reconstruction il
European Russia
Somewhere among the social Revo
iutionaries. probably among those Of
the Right. a leader is expected t.
develop who may eventually crystal
NE the opposition to the Bolsheviki
M Tchernoff. former minister O.
agriculture and chairman of the sus
pended constituent assembly, ant
Gen. Boris Savinkoff. former rnilitar,
commander of Petrograd and actins
minister OF war in the Kerensky abb
net. are the most conspicuous socia
reVoiutionaries at present Theil
whereabouts are unknown but Genera
SavinEnff Is reDorted to be in Siberia