New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

~ ments invited by the Allies
4 "a to join in the Prinkipo con-
ference, the plan of which
has since proved a complete failure,
were, besides the Bolshevik govern
ment of Soviet Russia, the indepen-
dent regional government of Omsk,
headed by Admiral Kolchak; that of
Yekaterinodar, headed by General
Denikine, and that of Archangel,
headed by Nicholas Tchaikovsky.
All Of these, called collectively the
patriotic or anti-Bolshevik govern
ments, refused to sit at the same
table with Lenine and Trotzky,
whom they branded as traitors to
Russia and the enemies of mankind.
The emissaries Of these govern
ments are now at Paris, endeavor-
ing to bring their cause before the
peace conference The Kolchak and
Denikine governments are represent
ed by Boris Sazonov, formerly For
eign Minister of Russia under the
Czarist regime, while the govern
ment of Archangel delegated its
head, Tchaikovsky. Cooperating
with them is Prince Lvoff, Prime
Minister in the first revolutionary
Cabinet that took the helm after the
overthrow of Czarism.
Ernest Hamlin Abbot, the Paris
correspondent of the New York
"Outlook," has interviewed these
three Russian spokesmen on their
views on Bolshevism and on the Le-
nine regime in Russia. Here are ex-
tracts from their statements as
printed in "The Outlook"
SdzonoU
When queried about the possibil-
ity of a popular upheaval against
the Lenine administration Sazonov
replied:
"Nobody is in position to rise
There are millions of people in Rus
sia, but the people are disarmed. Five
hundred people with arms can terror
ize a population of 10000 When in a
community the conditions become in
tolerable, the population in despair
rise, though disarmed, and 90 and kill
| m Of
the nearest centre the Red Army comes
and burns down the village The peo-
pie are unorganized. The Bolshevists
have got hold of former stores of arms
plus those given by the Germans.
"Bolshevism is simply an interna-
tlonal movement against nationalism.
1t is true that peasants burn down
houses, and this is the reason: The
first thing the Bolshevists said to the
peasants was: You have five acres.
Wen give you the land of a man who
has five thousand acres.' On the faith
OF that promise, the peasants burned
down the house Of their neighbor and
made him flee or killed him. Then thew
got hold of the land. But the peasants
did not originate this idea; it was the
Bolshevists who appealed to the peas
ants land greed. After that the Boil
shevists took the centrol into their
own hands. When they began to have
a tight grip on the people, the peasants
began to see that they had been fooled
The Bolshevists, for instance. created
pauper committees. man has a pig
or calf. He has to get permission
to sell it; he may get permission after
two months, and then he has to give
up the money, which is divided among
the paupers-that is, among the peo-
pie that are idle and won't work. the
worst elements. You can imagine the
impression that that made on the peas
ant. AS consequence there is not a
place where there hasn't been a local
uprising Of the peasants against the
Bolshevists; but it is put down with
the utmost cruelty. The people now
curse the day when they were misled.