New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

Che 10 per cent so they can rule the
rest
after the breaking off of negotia-
lions at Brest-Litovsk, Then the Ger
mans were approaching Petrograd, I
decided to leave, and picked out Vo-
logda. intending to go to Irkutsk or
Vladivostok if necessary, but not to
leave Russian soil
Il had issued an address to the Rus
sian people on March II. just after
the Brest treaty was ratified by the
All Russian Congress at Moscow, in
which | said America still considered
the Russians our allies, that we were
not going to observe the treaty and
did not believe the other allies would.
few days later Won Kuehlmann, then
German Foreign Minister, demanded
| be deported for it. but the Soviet
chiefs replied that l had said nothing
more than Lcnine had said at Moscow.
II issued another address in July,
and this elected another demand for
my deportation. but nothing was said
to me about it,
kerensky Blunder Charged
Zone Of kerensky's great mistakes
was the postponcment of the Constitu-
ent Assembly. 1t did not meet until
December, when the Bolsheviki were in
control. The day before it was to meet
they arrested all the cadet members
who VIII had come a counter revolutionists.
They also arrested lot of social revo-
lutionists of the left. Then they pub
lished decree that there could be no
meeting unless 400 delegates were
present. But even with the arrests
there were 423 there, so the assembly
organized. The Bolsheviki had only
about quarter of the delegates and
bolted. That night drunken sailors dis
persed the assembly, and the next day
the Soviet seized the hall and would
not permit q meeting. The Soviet never
has made an attempt to hold a general
election since.
III believe Germany continued to fur
nish Lenne money for the corruption
of his own people. Well, the poisoned
chalice is now at Germany's own lips.
"The Bolsheviki won power by
promising the people peace, bread and
( land. They kept none of the promises
But some of the attempts were funny
One man told me of how the Bolsheviki
were dividing up his blooded cattle
They could not agree on who should get
! animal and divided the carcass"
The Ambassador told of his troubles
with the Soviets while at Vologda.
/ Tchitcherin sent Il message inviting the
embassies to 90 to Moscow, but they
refused
Finally the invitation became so
pressing that Mr. Francis decided to
go to Archangel. They reached there
July &c and were met by Bolshevik
delegation, which told them a boat was
ready and they could leave the coun-
i try. The boat was too small anyway,
but Mr. Francis refused, and the 140
people in the party stayed in the train
while the local Soviet negotiated with
/ Moscow.
I've finally decided TO move to Kan
dalatcha. where there was an anti
getting ready to go on a British ship
when the Bolsheviki gave permission"
When he reached kandalaksha, the
Ambassador said, he found that Cen
eral Poole, with 1000 men, had gone
to Archangel, and reached there just
four hours after an anti Bolshevik
revolution had won control of the city.
So the embassies went back.
"The Archangcl government was kid
mapped while | was there he went on.
Il brought it back. 1t was headed by
who had lived twenty years in Law
renee, Kansas. American troops had
landed on September A, and on the
night Of September some Russian Of
fcers, monarchsts, headed by Colonel
Chaplin, Russian on the British staff,
took the government officials. put them
on boat and started them for a mon
astery on an island thirty hours away.
Saw No Government Needed
next morning General Poole and |
were reviewing the battalion Of Amer
lean troops who were left in town
when he remarked to me: Did you
know there was revolution here last
night?'
1.-The hell you say said I. 'Whe
pulled it off p
"Chaplin,' he said. There he is.'