Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-09
WORLD MENACED BY SPREAD OF
 BOLSHEVISM

conceal the proposal from the gov ernments associated with the United States.
 Must Keep Troops.
 The ambassador was asked what would happen if American and allied troops were withdrawn from north ern Russia, and in reply asserted that he was positive the Bolshevists would sweep in and engage in an organ Of murder and destruction on a scale such as the world had never seen.
 Reports that the Bolshevists were sending their agents into Germany. France and England were upheld by the ambassador, who said he believed the efforts in this country thus far had taken the form of money for use nspreading their propaganda. He told of the delivery of Bolshevist uganda to the armies of the all lies and the United States in France. Germans Want Control.
 | The ambassador said the Soviet government. had recently been petis tioned not to carry out the denation- alization of certain banks, the objects of the petitioners being. he said, to allow German agents to obtain con- trol of the stock of these institutions. Mir. Francis said it was not true 1 that the mass of the Russian favored ] the rule of the Bolshevists. As a matter of fact, according to ambassa- dor Francis less than constantly dwindling ten per cent of all the po- pie in Russia belong to the Bolshe. vist. He painted vivid picture of the terror that reigns in the old country of the Czar and told of one instance where the gutters from court yard in Petrograd actually ran with blood from the victims of the Bolshevists. l Many were killed without even charg- es being made aginst them and on sev- eral occasions. the ambassador as- serted wholesale killings were indulg- ed in. He said more than five hun dred innocent hostages were killed at one time and that his observation of conditions and affairs in Russia led him to believe that the Bolshevists in their every day practices committed excesses far beyond even the widest dreams of anarchists.
 ''Free Press" Is Denied.
 1 Flat contradiction was given by am- bassador Francis to the effect that free press existed in Russia.
 The ambassador discussed Colonel Robins at some length. He said he had heard the Red Cross representa- tive referred to as the "mouthpiece of America" and the references be- came so frequent that Francis was O. bliged to issue public notice saving that he represented the American gov ernmert and statements coming from any other source were unauthorized
 Mr. Francis declared that Colonel Ro. bins wanted him to follow the Rol- shevist government to Moscow" wher it. moved there from Petrgrad The
 Red Cross representative was said bN the ambassador to have had eVerN facility placed at his disnosal by the Bolshevists with whom he was per.
 sonal grata. He said when Colone Robins travelled the Bolshevists tele
 graphed ahead to help him in every way and that he even had authoriza
 tion to have what telegrams he sent
 put ahead of all other messages, sucl privileges being denied to the ambas sador.
 Americans Aided.
 The ambassador said that on ths
 night of the suppressine of the consti : tuent assembly. the Bolshevists ex pected trouble and three of the many
 hundred Americans who came to Rus sia were on guard at the Soviet min istry of foreign affairs. He declared these to have been John Reed writ CT who has appeared before the com mittee: man named Humphries. anc
 another named Reinstein, whose home was said to be in Buffalo. The ambas sador asserted that in single week eight hundred Americans arrived ir Russia and that many of them asso ciated with the Bolshevists soon after The ambassador said he warned the } state department and recommended l that passports be not issued to Ameri cans to come to Russia.
 s Albert Rhys Williams a previous t witness before the committee was re