The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03
B0ESHEvIKI KILL
 MANY CLERCYMIE:N
and Priests Are Murdered in Moscow, and Body of Monks Were Shot to Death; Dean of Cathe- dral and His Sons Drown ed in Neva River.

London, March 3-(Correspondenc of The Associated Press )-Murders of clergymen constitute the latest fea- ture of BoIshevik terror in Russia, says Professor Peter Struve, a distin- guished Russian Economist, who has escaped from Russia and arrived in England after hiding from the Bol- sheviki for months in Moscow, and after a long journey on foot to reach safety in Finland. He was com pel1ed to disguise himself to escape death at the hands of the adherents of Lenine and Trotzky. Professor Struve was representative from Pe-, trograd in the second Duma and a member of the Assembly convoked by Alexander F. Kerensky.
 Altogether ten bishops had been shot and many priests murdered, and the dean of Kazan Cathedral and his two sons were drowned in the New by the Red soldiers said Professor Struve. Near KotIas, all the monks in one monastery were shot to death Professor Kartasheff, Minister of Re Igion in Kerensky's government. who has escaped into Finland, says that the present persecution of the Church In Petrograd is only compar- able with the persecution of the early Christians.
 Tn Moscow all the shootings take place at night, but in Petrograd the victims of the Bolsheviki are shot .u the afternoon in the courtyard of the headquarters of the Executive Com mission and, in order to drown the noise, 1t is usual to start. up the en- zines of motor cars which are wait ing in the vicinity.
 At the beginning of the Bo1shevik 1 movement, I publicly expressed the l opinion that not even a German would hold converse with a Bolshe- vik. AS a Russian ConstitutionaIist 1t is completely inexpIicabIe to me 1 how any allied government can con i template discussion of any sort, in any circumstances or at any place, i with anyone who calls himself a Bol~ 1 shevik.
 Those who imagine that there can 1 be any pact between the forces of l civilization and Bolshevism, have no l conception of the real state of affairs 1 in Russia. The most moderate form 1 of restoration of order and liberty in 1 Russia would make the existence of Bolshevism impossible. Bolshevtsm | is complete tyranny, which is abso- | 1utely incompatible with any form of i ordered liberty and consutut1OI1a4 | government. It Is entirely false to say that Bo1shevism Is popular
 form of government. If Trotzky
 would walk a verst through Moscow
 he would be killed. No Czar lived in greater terror of his subjects than the chiefs of the BoIshevIk govern 1 ment. There was more law and jus tice under serfdom than under the i Bolsheviki.
 Tt is untrue that the armed forces
 of the Bolshevid can offer any seri-
 ous resistance to organized and well
 armed pressure, and the failure ot the Bolsheviki in Esthonia, where
 they yielded before small but com
 pact forces, is much more character
 istic of their real nature than the
 successes they gained in the Nortf
 and the East against the driblet
 which were put in action there.
 ITO represent the Bolshevih a
 being strong is not only false but yer!
 dangerous because 1t creates the yer!
 impression that the Bolshevih desir'
 to create. They aim at world revo
 lution. and to create 8 false impres
 sion of their power is to further theI aims Civilization must not shrinl from the problem; it can be deal
 with easily if it is grasped firmly. Th real strength of the Bolshevild lie , in the irresolution of the leaders Q |