Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-05
RED TERROR IS
STILL IN CONT ROL,
SAYS JOURNALIST
Peters, the "MankiIler,n Is
AIl-PoWerful in Moscow
Women Relatives of Men
Fighting Lenine Butchered.

lSlltlllS GClllilC DulOllCl Odi
BY Arno Dosch- Fleurot.
(Staff Correspondent of The Albu-
querque Morning Journal and New
York World.)
Copyright, 1913. by The Press Pub
fishing Co.
(The New York World.)
Warsaw, Sept. 4.-Axel Anderson.
head OF the Danish Red Cross in
kuss.a, with personnel of forty-two
compatriots has arrived here from
Moscow on the way home. He is the
last representative of "a non-Boishevik
power to quit Russia, and he left there
| only because forced to do SO and with
extreme regret because of the hun
dreds Of foreigners still in Russian
jails.
He feels that he must report to his
government before talking for publi-
cation, but / have obtained consider
able authoritative information from
the mission.
The extraordinary commission
against counter revolution still holds
| the upper hand. Commissioner Jake
Peters (the 'mankiller"), in Moscow.
and Medvedieff, in Petrograii, are
all powerful and are carrying on the
IbSu tGIEOE
! Women Butchcred.
T Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
| female relatives of men in the Koi-
chak and Denikine armies have been
executed. Revolving peasants have
| been executed in masses. Bolshevik
police seem to be efficient. Crimes of
violence are vigorously punished. So
ordinary citizens willing to work with
| the government are able to live un-
| molested. The streets are compare
| lively safe.
| According to the Danish reports,
| discipline remains good within the
Red army only because of its severity.
The death penalty is inflicted for
slight infractions Of order, and always
for drunkenness.
! The sum of the information shows
now that the Bolsheviki have not
| changed their methods or purposes
/ in the last year. They are still try
| ing to maintain themselves by tcr-
rorisra md },;e sacceeesrss Tses,
| are seeking to spread their propa-
| ganda, hoping for Bolshevlk growth
| elsewhere.
Arrested the Danes.
The Bolsheviki played the Danes a
| final trick after orders had been
! given to quit by arresting them at 8
o'clock in the morning, forcing them
to carry their luggage across the city
| of Petrograd to the railway station,
4 Indifferent TO the consideration that
many of the mission were women
| who had worked hard to feed chill
| dren and workmen who had been
starved by inefficient communist rule.
Arriving in Moscow, the members
of the mission were marched to the
| Jail, where they were left for three
days without food. They were kept
! in Jail for month, the authorities
| giving many excuses to conceal the
real purpose of that act, which was
to give the authorities time to organ
| ize and to send ahead a bogus mis-
sion composed of Bolshevik agitators,
| with false Danish passports. This
1 bogus mission was to reach Poland
at about the time the genuine mis-
sion was scheduled to arrive there.
/ The Polish authorities, having been
4 advised that the Danish mission
! would then arrive. permitted the pre-
/ tenders to cross the border. They
| would probably have passed success
| fully into Germany. their destination,
| if a Polish soldier had not become
| suspicious of them.
Reach Polish Refuge.
Having allowed time for the pre-
| tenders to reach Germany and to
! disperse there the Bolshevik authori-
| ties sent the Danes to Minsk, carry
ing them by rail to within a few
versts of the Polish outposts and
then dumping them out, with warn
! ings not to return under any cir
| cumstances.
They proceeded afoot and were
we'll received by the Polish frontier
officer, but when their arrival was re-
ported at army headquarters an order
was dispatched to the frontier officer
| peremptorily commanding him to turn
them back, Headquarters believed
they were impostors.
Word finally reached President
| Paderewski, who satisfied himself that
real Danes were suffering -or the acts
| of impostors. He sent apologies and
a comfortable train. After their ex-
periences the Danes are not yet quite
Modified. They are now about to
proceed to Danzig. with the assist
lance of the American food adminis-
tration.
| From members of the party / have
been able to get a picture of the
| steady disintegration of Russia since
J I left there last September. Most of
the factories, except munition works,
are now closed as the Bolsheviki have
been unable to make industry move,
| reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. There have been strikes in the
munition factories, notably In the
| Putiloff works in Petrograd.
4 Thousands of former functionaries
\ of the car have Joined the Bolshevik
bureaucracy. Thus they are able to
obtain rationing cards of the first
class, he same as are given to the
hardest wcrkmen. Yet general ra-
tioning has been so poor that all
classes remaining in the cities are
| gradually starving.