Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-05
MURDER OF RUSS CLERGY LATEST
 BOLSHEv|KI FAD
Red Soldiers Create Reign of Terror by Killing
 Holy Fathers.

l London, Mar. 4-iNurders of cler-
 gymen constitutes the latest feature
 of the bolshevik terror in Russia, says ! Prof. Peter Struve, a distinguished
 Russian economist, who has escaped from Russia and arrived in England
 after hiding from the bolsheviki for months Ill Moscow and after a long journey on foot to reach safety in
 Finland. He was compelled to dis 1 guise himself to escape death at the | hands of the adherents of Lenine and i Trotzky. Professor Struve was rep reseEtative from Petrograd in the second duIha and member of the assembly convoked by Alexander F. l Kerensky.
 Altogether ten bishops had been 1 shot and many priests murdered and ] the dean of Kazen cathedral and his two sons were drowned in the Neva by the Red soldiers" said Professor Struve. Near Kotlas, all the monks in one monastery were shot to death. religion in Kerensky's government, who has escaped into Finland. says that the present persecution of the
 church in Petrograd is only compara- ble with the persecution of the early Christians.
 Have Different Hours. In Moscow all the shootings take victims of the bolshevik are shot ill 1.-the afternoon ill the courtyard of ths
 headuarters of the executive commits sion 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 bolshevik
 movement, I publicly expressed the opinion that not even German would
 converse with a bolshevik. AS Rus-j sian constitutionalist it is completely |inexxplicable to me how any allied government con contemplate discus
 sion of any sort, in any circumstance
 or at any place, with anyone who calls himself a bolshevik
 "Those who imagine that there can
 be any pact. between the forces Of
 civilization and bolshevism, have no
 conception of the real state of af-
 fairs in Russia. The most moderate
 liberty in Russia would make the
 existence of tolshevism impossible.
 Bolshevism is complete tyranny, which is absolutely incompatible with any
 form of ordered liberty and constitu-
 false to say that bolshevism is a
 popular form of government. If Trot- zky would walk verst through Mos |cow he would be killed. No czar ever lived in greater terror of his subjects than the chiefs of the bolshevik gov |'ernment There was more law and justice under serfdom than under |'the bolshevik.
 Offer No Resistance. 1 ."It is untrue that the armed forces of the bolshevik can offer any serious resistance to organized and well-armz- ed pressure, and the failure of the tbolshevik in Esthonia, where they yielded before small but compact forces, is mucht more characteristic of their real nature than the sue cesses they gained in the north and the east against the driblets which were put in action there.
 ''To represent the bolshevik as be- ing strong is not only falst but very dangerous because it,creates the very impression, that the bolshevik desire 1 to create. They aim at world rev. olution, and to creat a false impress sion of their power is to further their aims. Civilization must not shrink from the problem; it can be dealt with | easily if it is grasped firmly. The real strength of the bolshevik lies Tn l the irresolution of the leaders of civ iliZatiOn' |.