The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-13
WORLD REVOLT BY
REDS, LENINE HOPE
Agents Sent to All Countries,
Including U. S., to Stir
Revolution.
By II. wICKHAM Sized,
Editor Of the London Times.

Editor Of the Londox Times.
special cooIe Despdtch TO The SUN from the
London Times Service.
Copyright. 1919; oil rights reserved.
PARIS, May 12.--By a curious play
OF circumstances the nature Of which
am not at liberty TO indicate. I have
received an authentic account of the
position Of the Bolshevist rulers in Rus
STA, the accuracy Of which NIkolai Len
Inc and Leon Trotzky themselves could
| not truthfully contest.
Lenine still pins all his hopes to tho
possibility of bringing about a Boil
shevist revolution and establishing "a
dictatorship of the proletariat" in the
western European countries and the
, United States In a conversation with
him and his intimates he comedies that
no reliance is to be placed on the Red
Army or organization, the maintenance
OF which has been tour de force on
the part of Trozky.
| Lenine relies for success on an army
OF another kinda propagandist army.
as he Gals it-which Is marvelously or
ganlzed and supplied with unlimited
| FUNDS He has agents working in all the
allied countries. though its chief centre
outside of Russia Is Stockholm. He
hopes that the operations of this army
may speedily bring on a general revo-
luton and dislocate capitalistic society
throughout the world.
Famine Is Russian Barometer.
In Russia the situation varies greatly
according to the degrees of famine
In various regions. At Petrograd the
whole population. reduced from some
100000 to less than 500, 900. is rapidly
starving and is for that Jason sullenIy
| anti-Bolshevist. The exodus from the
city. formerly encouraged by Lenine,
has been stopped by the Red Guards.
Those OF the middle class who remain
are in even worse straits than are the
| workmen.
The physical condition of the people
Is so bad that, for instance. in the hos
pitfalls no operations can be performed
| because the wounds do not heal. There
is. however. no likelihood of a sponta-
neous revolt against the Bolshevist rule
| because the inhabitants are too near
starvation and too lifeless to be a match
even for the handful OF Red Guards with
machine guns.
/ In the country districts, where the
peasants still retain some secret stores
of corn. the situation is less acute, but
apathy is just as pronounced. The Rus
/ sian mujik has reverted to conditions Of
| the stone age. wearing skins for clothes
| and covering his feet with wisps of
| straw. The peasants detest Bolshcv ism
as much as the urban population does,
but are incapable Of organising active
resistance to II.
Reds Rule in Face OF weakness.
Thus the Bolshevist regime stands
because there is nothing to overthrow
IT, Lenine, Trotsky and their associates
| live in daily terror of foreign military
intervention. against which they know
they will be powerless. Their sole pur-
pose is to gain time until revolution
abroad can come to their assistance
When the Nansen revictualling pro-
posai reached them they could hardly
believe their eyes. They could not con-
ceive that the allied and associated
governments intended to remove or at
least alternate the chief cause OF Boil
shevist unpopularity in cities like Petro-
grad and Moscow.
That cause Is hunger. The Russian
workmen do not wish to work. but yearn
to be fed. II food comes and they can
continue to be paid by the Bolshevist
happy.
Therefore Lenine and Trotsky sin
cerely interpret the hansen proposal
with logic as being a concession to
Bolshevian wrung from the unwilling
capitalistic allied governments by the
fear of a proletarian revolution In their
own countries. This Is the explanation
of the Nansen proposal which has gone
forth from the Bolshevist headquarters
and throughout Russia.
At present the chief fear OF Lenine
and Trotsky is that the movement OF
Russo-Finnish forces under Gems. Mann
helm. Mapperheim and Yudenitch may
result in the capture of Petrograd and
In the revictualling of Petrograd and
the zone around 1t by the Allies. Lenine
knows the weakness OF Petrograd and
believes that II Yudsnitch were to prom
Use relief to the working classes In
Pertograd and amnesty TO the Red
Guards Petrograd might fall into his
hands almost without resistance.
With Petrograd and that region once
taken and revictualled Lenine's OWL
position--indeed the whole centre OF the
Bolshevist organization In Moscow
would within a few weeks be imperiRed
by the effects of the contrast between
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