The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-21
RUSSIAN REBELS
HOPELESSLY SPLIT
Majority in Soviet Congress Repudiated
All Possibility of Re-Entering War
and Other Section Insisted on
"Merciless Struggle"
"MerciIess Struggle"

merc1leSs struggle"
London, Aug. 2l.-A final breach be-
tween the two revolutionary parties in
Russia was manifest from the opening of
the fifth congress of aIl-Russian Soyiets
at Moscow early in July, according to
belated Reuter- dispatches Uproarous
scenes and reeriminution marked tho
meeting An assertion that a majority
Of the people in the provinces were OPP
posed to the Soyiets was made by Maria
Spieridonova, Of the social revolutionists
Of the left
In report Of the foreign relations, For
eign Minister Tehitchorin announced
that the commissaries had demanded the
withdrawal of British, French and Amer
can warships from the Thurman coast
and bad dispatched Soviet troops thither
as a reply to the British landing there.
Tchitcherin said Russia was ready to
renounce some of her rights in the Chi
nese eastern railway and would sell the
southern branch to japan. The govern.
ment also was willing IN facilitate the
importation Of Japanese goods and to ad-
nit the japanese to wide participation
IN the industrial and commercial life in
| Siberia
While the Soviet majority in the CON
gress repudiated all possibility of re-
newal Of the war, the social revolution
lists Of the left insisted on merciless
struggle against all "imperialistic plum
derers and German robbers"
A small rising Of armed social revolu-
tionists of the left, including sailors from
the Black sea feet, occurred in Moscow
on July T. II was suppressed after ma
chine gun fighting in the center Of the
city For q part Of the day the enemies
Of the bolsheyiki held the post and tee.
graph Offices Some members of the left.
lists executive committee, including Miss
| Spiridonova, were arrested
A similar rising, but on a smaller scale,
took place in Petrograd. 1t was put
down after the revolters had been bonn
barded by machine guns and armored
cars.
On July all the delegates Of the social
reyolutionists of the left TO the all Rus
| sian congress were arrested and the
town and government of Vologda were
declared in a state of siege owing TO an
anti-Sov uprising at Jaroslav Rail
way and telegraphic communications be-
tween Moscow and the north were in
| terrupted.
The outstanding feature of the all.
Russian congress was the denunciation
| BY War Minister Trotzky Of the action
Of the allies in landing on the Thurman
coast and in helping the Czecho-Slovaks.
He threatened merciess measures Of de-
Tense and on July 10 NJ Tchitcherin, in
note TO the British representatives in
Moscow, made sinister reference to
"the results which may arise from the
excitement caused among the masses Of
the Russian population by the unpro-
voked British attack on Thurman"
On the same day II former officers who
had served under German Alexietf were
summarily shot in Moscow as counter
revolutionaries. On July Is French and
British military officers were prohibited
! from moving from one town to another
and a strict watch on their movements
was ordered.
A Moscow dispatch received in Amster-
dam on July 20 reported that Maria
Spiridonova had been one Of the number
Of social revolutionists shot for the muir
| der of German Ambassador Won Mirbach.