Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-18
NATIONAL
Of WOMEN |S ONE
PRINCIPLE HELD
BY B0LSHEvIk
Returned American Official
Reads Into Senate Record
Loathsome DEGREES Prohib-
iting Virtue Among Slavs.
VIGOROUSLY OPPOSES
WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS
SAYS If Northern People Are
Left to Mercy of Soviet Gov
ernment 1t Will Mean Horri-
BILE Massacre of Innocent.
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Washington, Feb. 17.-Roger r.
Simmons, who recently returned from
mission ot Russia for the bureau of
commerce, today told the senate com
mittee investigating lawles agitation in
this country that # the American and
allied forces We're withdrawn from
northern Russia the Bolsheviki would
engage in one of the bloodiest mas
sacres the world had ever seen.
The witnes said he was surprised
at the demands being made for the
withdrawal of the American forces
and told the committee that every
time the American and allied soldiers
had found 1t necessary to give up
ground in northern Russia the Bolshe-
WIKI had swent in and inaugurated an
orgy OF murder of peaceful citizens.
He said that before leaving Archangel
last November 3, he had found that
the American troops We're well sup
piled and had performed great acts of
heroism which yet remain to be told.
North Russia sympathetic.
All the Russians in the northern dis
trict were sympathetic with the allied
forces, he said. and were praying that
they would not be removed. Evidence
which, he said, showed that Germany
was responsible for the outbreak of
Bolshevism in Russia was presented
to the committee by Mr.. Simmons. 1t
included sworn statement of a Rus
sian that just before the cars gov
ernment was overthrown he was sent
by the German imperial chancellor to
Switzerland to determine which of
the Russian socialist schools there
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leader 5000, 900 marks If he would
send his men into Russia to spread
their propaganda. After visiting
switzerland, tha Russian reported
that the school headed by Lenin was
the most radical but he recommend
ed that the services of Lenin be not
engaged as the result, # successful,
would mean a terrible catastrophe for
Russia.
Lcnin Pro-German.
This evidence, Mr.. Simmons said,
coupled with the fact that Lenin
passed through Germany on his way
from Switzerland to Russia; that
members of the Red Guard were
given iron crosses and that German
soldiers and officers were used to put
down an anti-R Rolshevik mutiny, |
proved beyond doubt where the re-
SpoliSihllity lay lOT the reign OF terror !
in Russia
The witness read to the committee
the text of a number of DEGREES /
which the Bolsheviks secured !
the naturalization of women.
These need no comment" he
said.
This is the thing that is being fos-
tered and upheld by the propaganda |
now being circulated IN the United |
States in an effort to justify Boil |
shevism. The creed of the Bolshe-
viks does not respect and in fact. dis |
courages and in many cases even |
prohibits, women from being virtu-
Gus. 1t IS the same with religion. |
The Bolsheviks favor no religion of
any sort"
Scored BY Americans
Full publicity OF the acts and be-
liefs of the Bolsheviki, Mr.. Simmons
said, would be sufficient to kill the
idea in the minds of any Americans
who might have become sympath-
etic.
What do you think of men like
Albert r. Williams, who come over
here and uphold Bolshevism ?" asked |
member of the committee.
Y think" replied the witness, "that |
Williams left Russia before the ter
rorism began; Williams now is going
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