The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-04
BOLSHEVIK TERRORS
TOLDBY REFUGEES
RailroadWorkmen Drink Naph-
tina, Benzine and Kerosene
With Maddening Effects.
MOSCOW CITY OF DEATH
Bread $50 n Pound and Fuel
Unobtainable at Any
Price.
Special cable D,spofcn 10 TIE Sex rom the
London Times Sserfce.

London Tfrnes bsrttce
Copyright. 1919: all rohn reserred.
OMsK, Feb. s-Foreigners and Rus
SLAMS arriving here from Russia paint a
terrible picture OF conditions prevailing
under Bolshevist rule. Absolute confis-
cation OF every commodity appears to
DO universal. Everything has been taken
from the peasants except where they
have combined to resist spoliatlon. In
some districts It Is the military order
that no less than twelve Red Guards
are allowed to enter village. because
smaller numbers are set upon and de-
stroyed
Railway communication except for
military purposes IL practically non-ex-
istent owing to the condition ri the
workmen. who drink nsphtha. benzine
and kerosene with maddening effects.
The situation in Moscow Is described as
CHASTITY. Ali the shops except those
maintained by the Soviet are closed
nothing Is obtalnable without cards, and
only those associated with the Bolshe-
visits obtain cards, so that the people
| who stand aloof suffer indescribable
ha rdships.
Although the cold IN Moscow Is only n
! little less severe than in Siberia there ~
no coal in the city and hardly any wood
for heating the latter is coarsely ra-
| toned and only Bolshevist partisan
| share in the little available heat. II
| ie impossible to estimate how mary per-
| Sons are dying Of starvation. but every
| body coming from Russia declares the
Bolshevists are deliberately endeavoring
to exterminate the intelligenzia.
bread $50 q Pound.
Prices IN Moscow are fabulous
Sledge drivers decline to bulge for I'M
der 200 rubles $4,000 normally. where
| they would previously content them
| selves with forty kopeks go cents)
| Bread Is 100 ruhles (s5D a pound
clothes unprocurable at any price what
ever.
Many Of the churches IN Moscow have
| been turned into theatres.
The famous sacred Strastnol Monas-
| terry has been transformed into a dane
| ing hall, where women revel nightly
The Bolshevists, having been excommuni-
| Gated By the church, are doing every
thing possible to destroy its Influence
| among the peasantry by propaganda and
violation. II is now known as certain
that many prisoners returning from Ger
| many and Austria have been impressed
| into military service, the unfortunate
being kept without food and clothing
Until ready to do anything to save their
| lives. Every town is a military camp
where training on large scale Is con-
| tinually going on.
Many officers OF the old army. espe-
| pecially those with stan training, are
forced to serve. as their wives anu fam
| lies are being held as hostages for their
| loyalty. When An officer without do
| mystic ties is doubted a batch Of his
friends arc warned that al! viii be shot
| II he deserts or fails to perform his
duty. Tho powers Of the regimental
| commissary are absolute, and gangs of
desreradoes are employed with every
| unit TO shoot down disaffected officers
and men.
The naturalization Of women, though
| tried In many places, has proved
| n failure owing TO the feeling aroused
but there is little doubt that women De-
| longing TO the better class who prove
| recalcitrants undergo hideous treatmen,
at the hands OF the leaders who cons;i.
| tute the Bolshevist regime
! only one-terth Of the Red Army is
really Bolshevik. the remainder being
| forced 10 fight because otherwise they
and all belonging TO them would be ex-
terminated II an officer or soldier de-
| scrts his whole family is shot The
| Rolshevists have stated that they realize
tho game will be n losing one unless the
| whole OF Europe is forced into revolu-
| ton.
This Is the kind OF situation which
| the Allies contrive TO give the impress
| sion here they are doubtful what to DO
| about Since NJ. Pichons speech made
month ago the Allies appear to the
Russians TO be blowing hot and cold,
! one moment consratulatiny Admiral
Kolchak for his efforts to restore Rus
STA and foreshadowing the recognition of
| the Omsk Government, and then plung-
ing them into despair BY proposing that
the Ro!sheyists should be represented
at the Peace Conference