The Nenana daily news., 1919-04-17
CHURCH WORKERS
 ARE VICTIMS OF
 BOlSHEVIK| WAVE

1 1ONDON.-Murders of clergy men constitute the latest feature of i Bolshevik terror in Russia, says i Professor Peter Sturve, a distin- l guished Russian economist, who has escaped from Russia and arrived i in England after hiding from the Bolsheviki for months in Moscow.
 and after long journey on foot
 to reach safety in Finland. He was compelled to disguise himself to escape death at the hands of the adherents of Lenine and Trotsky
 Professor Struve was representa-
 tive from Petrograd in the second
 Duma and a member of the Assem-
 bly, convoked by Alexander F. ker-
 ensky.
 Altogether ten bishops had been shot and many priests murdered, and the dean of kazan Cathedral and his two sons were drowned in the Neva by the Red soldiers" said Pro- lessor Sturve. Near kotlas, all the monks in one monastry were shot to death. Professor Karta- shelf minitser of religion in ker- ensky's government, who has es caped into Finland, says that the present persecution of the church in Petrograd is only comparable with the persecution of the early Christians
 Tn Moscow all the shootings take place at night, but in Petro- grad the victims of the Bolshevik are shot in the afternoon in the courtyard of the headquarters of the Executive Commission and, in order to drown the noise, it IS usual to start up the engines of motor cars which are waiting in the vicinity.
 At the beginning of the Bol- sheviki movement, l publicly ex- pressed the opinion that not even a German would converse with a Bolsheviki As a Russian Constitu- i tionalist it is completely inexplicable to me how any allied government can contemplate discussion of any sort, in any circumstances or at any place, with anyone who calls himself a Bolshevik.
 Those who imagine that he"c can be any pact between the i rces Of civilization and Bolscevism, have no conception of the real state ot affairs in Russia The most mod crate form of restoration of order and liberty in Russia would make the existence of Bolshevism im- possible. Bolshevism IS complace tyranny which is absolutely incom- 9atiblc with any form of ordered liberty and constitutional govern ment. It is entirely false that Bol- sf rN ism is a popular form of gov ernment. If Trotsky would walk a verst through Moscow he would be killed. No czar lived in greater terror of his subjects than the chiefs of the Bolshevik government. There was more law and justice under serfdom than under Bolshe- wiki.
 Tt is untrue that the armed forces of the Bolsheviki can offer any serious resistance to organized and well-armed pressure, and the failure of the Bolsheviki in Esthonia where they yielded before small but compact forces is much more char aeteristic of their real nature than the successes they gained in the North and East against the driblets which were put in action there.
 "To represent the Bolsheviki as being strong is not only false but very dangerous, because it creates the very impression that the Bol-, sheviki desire to create. They aim at world revolution, and to create false impression of their power is to further their aims. Civiliza- tion must not shrink from the prob lem; it can be dealt with easily if