The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-15
S0v|ETS BOAST
OF VICTORY AS
RUSSIA STARvES
Shocking Conditions Grow
Steadily Worse,

Uandon T0mo- cnbi. cop,dsh' i'r' by
ur ruLiir Ledger Company
STOCKHOLM. March - Pre-
'micr IcnInc recently asked the Nor
wcgian socialist party, with which he
va, then roquciimg, 20 send two PAT
~ member, to Russia 10 study the
real conditions existing under boil
,hryi,m aud the so,Ie, government
Tn, socialists oi Norway deputcd
rs, sp,ali,t LAWYERS, pcDtoy0ld and
.Slug to carry ont an lnycytgatiOn.
Ihr, returned after accomplishing
their mission Passing through
Stockholm on their way back 10
th..nanl. they communicated some
81 their impressions 10 the Swedish
-. .All,t organ, Social Dcmokralcn
They were given every freedom 10
rur.ue their studies. had interviewed
mu,t ot thc leading bol'hcyl,t men,
lrguung w''h lcnlne himself, whom
,hcy called the Peter the Great u'
.l1l,hc.u Russia, ard Trohkv who
., making Of Russia socialist NAL
.iay power The latter hll,'cd OF
having created large, well trained
army That could give a good account
a. u,cli against any invading force
Terror tpabaied.
The Red Terror nevertheless, The
Nprwcg.anS found. was continuing
un.ba,ed. Soldiers belonging 10 the
J,cd army lived mostly by exactlon,
at plunder and levying OF blackmal
u summary court-martlal i, con
stantly al work emptyIng the prisons
oi hostages Peters, presiden, OF one
uf these revolutionary tribunals, de
6lsred these tribunals had altogether
executed more than 5000 counter
revolutlonarics This statement, the
Norwegian investigator found later
q great deal OF undcreStlmatlon ol the
facts, as there were over Spp ol 'hi,
class Of tribunals at work. each H'
which must he credited some with
hundreds, some with thousands OF
summary execution
A, regards the working class. they
could not be worse of than IN Petro.
grad and Moscow, where they have
no work and are starving Starvation
moreover is general and II IS no vain
word It is impossible 10 imagine any
thing more plilahle than conditions
,ptevailng in both capitals Com
plants against the soviet government
were bitter despite the severity OF
the police measures and the spying
system IN force. Waiing' and
grumblingS are heard everywhere
from almost everybody one talks TO-
Locomotives Sick
The starving is mostly due TO faulty
administration and the deplorablc
state ot the railway communications
A. an instance OF this. peo,cnold
states ,ha, out ni 1000 locomotives
he was told 4.O0 were sick when
~ asked railway official why they
were utt repaired. the official replied
the men were too weakened by hun
ger 20 be able 10 carry out such ia
tigulng work Ii takes five men ~
m weight ono could raise easily
before. One cannot get them 10 work
a. even light jobs more than a cou-
pie OF hours a day II is viciou,
circle, Men are starving because the
locomotives are sick, and the looom1-
tiNes continue sick because the
workmen are starving. This vicious
circle is now met with constantly in
everything Russian excep, in the
vivid Imagination Of the holshcy.S,
leaders, who continue to hoas, tina,
bolsheyism is oonquering the world
and that all peoples before long. will
be converted to it's .enets imposing
them by force upon reactionary gov
ernmen,S