The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-14
Finnish Emissary Tells
of Bolshevik Terrorism

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not my own--~whirh was national
lx~d' BY tho reds. they found they
could not run &, without skilled tech.
Meal hrin. Therefore they went 10
the engineers and managers and
asked for their skilled help. They re-
fused
we WIN call again tomorrow
said the reds
THAT night two Of those engineers
we're murdered
Killed Whole -
The next day tho delegation again
waited on the management. SON
they met with refusal That nIKht
two more engineers wer~ murdered.
The rest gave In and under compui.
sion worked Tor the uoiahcvlka.
There were In all 20 Of these techni.
cal men and executives. For two or
three months they directed tho work
Of this 'nauonallxod factory Then
II becam. evident 20 tho reds that
tho white guard was winning. and
that they would presently b. elected
from their control OF the mill. And
they killed the whole 20 men before
they left.
These are not things i've heard
rumored they arr facts knows
know the sort OF terror we capital
lists and bourreousie. no called. lived
In all this time. As In Russia. they
the reds determined TO get rid Of
capitalism BY getting rid Of IN. CAPT.
taiists-- including In tina, term nearly
anybody who owned anything.
Calls ~ Terror
But when the white guard. or
anti bolshevist forces. finally won
out. we took leaf from tho RolHhe-
visit book. We got rid OF IN. thing
by getting rid % the Dolahsvists--
not. however. by murder or torture
You zee. most OF this Bolsheviarn
came from outside. with RuaalaD
leaders. Russian soldiers, Russian ar
itators. When the white guard won.
these people fed back Ia Ruasia. ieav.
ing their dupes among the Films TO
face the music as you call IL. This
betrayal did more 10 wakeu The de.
iudod Films to their folly than any.
thing else. and I think We ar. thru
with Bolshevistr and Bolsheyiam for
good. Every body's good.
But when hear some OF your
theorists and doc,rinaires talking for
BolHheYisrn with beautiful phraAon 7
always feel that they can not know
what they are saying. for Bolshevisrn
Ia hunger and terror and murder and
lust. and n these takers could see
the unrecognizabic corpses Of hun
dreds and thousands OF inofrenelv.
people butchered in the name of free
dom and proletarian inn, ~ I have
seen them. they might he deferred
from advoca ting similar thing in
your great democracy
Finland wants 20 trade with the
United states. Dc Julin says. During
tn" war Il has been shut of almost
completely from any foreign trade
but before the war Finland
bought much Of It's foodstufYs. Nearly
all it's cotton. ana largo part OF its
and Industrial machin.
cry from America.
80 "AtbhAFfh NAAiN AViIlfIlfTEe una
TO swell its volume the Finnish gov.
eminent has sent jacob de Julln as
ita commercial commissioner. and he
l. now touring the country In the In.
tercst Of finniah commerce.
~ the present moment for exam. I
pie. the stock OF saw timber ready /
for shipment In Finland is worth /
over fi3s 900 900. and the forests ara
practically inexhaustible The re.
markable number OF lakes and water. |
ways In Finland render IL particu.
larly ne for tho timber industry and
furnish also almost llmitless oppor.
tunitiea for water power devclop.
meut
This huge timber stock Is OF no al.
rect interest 10 the United States Of
course. but 1t IL indirectly OF signlf.
cnnce. De Julin ~ now discussing
with the food administration and the
shipping board the project OF load.
Ing the holds OF our food ships which
have brought scr, 900 900 OF -four to
Finland since January ]. 1919, with
Finnish timber to be sold In England
and France. This would end the
present commercially unsound prac.
tice OF returning those ships 10 the
United States wholly empty, II
would also put the Finnish timber
Industry on it's feet and give that
country much capital with which TO
meet It's trade obligations with the
United states. Also, since that tim
Der would be used largely for rebuild.
ing In England and France. 1t must