Evening star., 1918-07-31
RUSS AIM TO END
BOLSHEV|K REGIME
Workmen and Peasants Plan
Drastic Revolt Against
Tyranny.
MOSCOW LIFE BEARABLE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, July 31.-Information
reaching Stockholm. says the corre-
spondent of the Times there. shows
that the bolshevik regime has come
to the end of its tether and that the
Russian masses-workmen and peas
ants-are about to rise in arms
against bolshevik tyranny.
Of1cial representatives of the social
revolutionary and social democratic
parties in Russia have arrived in
Stockholm, says the correspondent,
and have issued remarkable appeal
70 the socialists of Europe. They
call upon the socialists to form an
international commission, represent
ing all socialist parties, to visit Rus
sia and ascertain by direct investiga-
tion whether the Russian socialists
are not right in declaring that the
bolsheyiki have brought widespread
evils on Russia. destroyed industry,
caused universal starvation, despota-
cally oppressed the people ana are
now concerned only IN retaining
: power at all cost.
The representatives are Rusannon;
for the social revolutionaries. ana
Axelrod for the social democrats.
They represented their respective
parties in Stockholm in the summer
of 1917, when an abortive attempt
was made to organize an intersocial-
list conference.
Hope for Salvation From Outside.
AMSTERDAM, July 30.-'Life in
Moscow is now more bearable for the
intellectual classes than in Feters,
burg." (Petrograd) says speclai
message to the Cologne Noiks EEL
tung, "for Moscow's erstwhile rien
have not, like the rich OF Petersoufs'
.srhe Observation-Disclosures anu
bourgeois-seem tacitly to have mace
nm their minds to live peaceaol5-a.
ali events, for the time oeins. He
latter have become resigned 10 euen
: fate, believing there is no po"ett
rescuing them. They all look aoroao
for salvation. some to Germany oue
the majority to England.
.srhe mowers that be are convinced
that nothing short OF rate can u
throne them, and think that II they
sre aSIe to hold on until the autumn
crops their position will pc quite Sc
cured. Most of the factories IN NOS
cow and vicinity are working, ou'
the labor is scarce.
thousands of miles OF trunk Iali-
roads are paralyzed because OF iaGS
of rolling stock and fuel. The Wnole
railroad system is terribly dlsorgan
lied and deteriorated. The hiie
busy yolga. river is almost entireiy
deserted and ships are rottins away
Political Prisoners to Be Freed.
LONDON. July 3o-An agreement has
been signed between the German en-
t., tha ma
government of Finland and the councils
government, whereby all citizens OF hus,
sia and Finland arrested for pontcal
reasons in Finland or Russia are 70 Dc
liberated. including those accused OF
spying or conveying contraband, says
Russian wireless Communication. The
first OF the persons under arrest VINO are
to be exchanged will be Firms arrested
in Peuograd. and Leo Kamenen. vice
president Of the Russian workmens
and soldiers delegates, and four other
Russians, who were arrested some time
aeo in the Aland Islands by the Ger
mans and last were reported as being
held by the Finn white guards as
hostages
Allied consuls to Stay in Moscow.
A Russian wireless communication
says that NJ Tchitcherin. the bolshevlk
foreign minister. has sent the following
message to NJ. Joffole. bolshevik ambas-
sador to Germany:
.The American consul general. Mr..
Poole, who is charged with the mission
of maintaining diplomatic relations
with the councils government at Mos
COW, visited the commissary OF foreign
Affairs and declared in the name OF the
British diplomatic representative and
the consuls general Of France. Italy and
Japan that they approved the declaration
previously made by Mr.. Poole to the
commissary. which essentially follows:
TN conformity with the personal
;opinion of the allied consuls there is no
reason to believe the situation in gen.
eral outlines is changed by the depar-
ture Of the ambassadors to Vologda. The
representatives of the aforesaid powers
expect to remain in Moscow as long as
circumstances permit them to do so and
they are permitted to use the privileges
attached to their functions. especially
direct communication with their re-
spective movements, unless they receive
other instructions
onfensives Precede Elections.
LONDON, July 31.-The occasion of
the municipal elections in Vladivo-
stok,. says a dispatch to the Times
from that city dated July 27. has been