The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-14
MANY PRIESTS
 MURDERED BY BOLSHEVISTS

Of the Associated PresS) Murders Of clergymen constitute the latest fea- ture of Bolshevik terror in Russia, says Professor Peter Sturve, dis tinguished Russian economist, who has escaped from Russia and arrived in England after hiding from the Bol- sbeviki for months in Moscow, and after a long journey on foot to reach safety in Finland. He was compelled to disguise himself to escape death at the hands of the adherents of Lenine and Trotzky. Professor Sturve was representative from Petrograd in the second Duma and member of the as- sembly convoked by Alexander F. Kerensky.
 Altogether ten bishops had been shot and many priests murdered and the dean of Kazan Cathedral and his two sons were drowned ill the Neva by the Red soldiers" said Professor Sturve. Near Kotlas all the monks in one monastery were shot to death. Professor Kartasheff, minister of re- ligion in Kerensky's government, who has escaped into Finland, says that persecution of the church in Petro- grad is only comparable with the per secution of the early Christians.
 .In Moscow all the shootings take place at night, but in Petrograd the victims of the Bolsheviki are shot in the afternoon in the courtyard of the headquarters of the executive com mission and, in order to drown the noise, it is usual to start up the en- zines of the motor cars which are waiting in the vicinity.
 At the beginning of the Bolshevik movement I publicly expressed the opinion that not even German would hold converse with a Bolshevik. AS Russian Constitutionalist it is con- pletely inexplicable to me how any allied government can contemplate discussion of any sort, in any circum
 
 who calls himself Bolshevik.
 Those who imagine that there can be any pact between the forces of civilization and Bolshevism have no conception of the real state of affairs in Russia. The most moderate form of restoration of order and liberty in Russia would make the existence of Bolshevism impossible. Bolshevism is complete tyranny, which is abso- lutely incompatible with any form of ordered liberty and constitutional government. It is entirely false to say that Bolshevism is popular form of government. If Trotzky would walk a verst through Moscow he would be killed. No czar lived in greater terror of his subjects than the There was more law and justice under serfdom than under the Bolsheviki. "It is untrue that the armed forces of the Bolsheviki can offer any serious resistance to organized and we'll armed pressure, and the failure of the Bolsheviki in Esthonia, where they yielded before small but compact forces, is much more characteristic of their real nature than the successes they gained in the north and the east against driblets which were put in action there.
 "To represent the Bolsheviki as be- ing strong is not only false but very dangerous, because it creates the very impression that the Bolsheviki desire to create. They aim at world revolu- tion, and to create a false impression of their power is to further. their aims. Civilization must not shirk from the problem; it can be dealt with easily if it is grasped firmly. The real strength of the Bolsheviki lies in the irresolution of the leaders of civiliza- tion"