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SJt's Bound to Come to an End,'
He Declares. SSIt's
Inevitable

enough" he continues. at could not
help but appeal to any one of an al
truistic temperament, until you
caught the German taint in back of
it. When you began hearing about
riches for the poor man and all the
rest of it, it became clear that some
thing was wrong.
"To-day the popular appeal of the
whole thing is lost. don't believe
that 10 per cent of the people in
European Russia want to have any
thing to do with Bolshevism at the
present time. All the rest of them
are dead against it. Bolshevism is
surviving temporarily, but only
through reign of terror. Now and
then groups are resisting it, but they
never have quite the strength. 1t is
sufficient for most to know that any
one hostile to Bolshevism is promptly
dealt with. Dead men tell no tales.
"You don't understand how the
thing can continue with 80 per cent
Of the population against it? Well,
it's perfectly conceivable how il can
last-for a while. Imagine the
United States if the /. w. w. got
control ard gained possession, as the
Bo]shevists have in Russia, of all
the arsenals in the country and of
all the arms. Imagine daily search
of the population for weapons with
death as the penalty for any one
possessing them. That's just what
is happening in Russia to-day. I'M
agine all the convicts in the country
being released and more or less in
control Of the situation, and made
to stick by their leaders with prom
ises of loot. That is what is going
on in Russia. If you imagine all
this you can see the predicament.
It's pretty hard to break it up.
"But it's going to stop. Once the
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The League Defined

Now in this situation what OF the
league of nations' The answer is clear.
The league Of nations from the Ger
man standpoint Is that association OF
Great Britain, France and the United
States which, dominating the Paris
conference. has dictated and will now
undertake to impose the Treaty Of Yer
sailles upon Germany. II is the guar
antor Of the treaty which no German
accepts. it is The organization which
has undertaken TO bestow Posen and
East Prussia upon Poland and deprive
Germany OF Danzig and the Saar
Basin.
For Austria It is the alliance which
has reduced the Hapsburs state from
a nation Of fifty millions to q third-rate
country of barely seven millions; for
Hungary it is the alliance Of Western
nations which gave Transylvania, the
Banat and Croatia and its adjoining
slay lands TO the Rumanians and the
Jugo- Slavs, and guarantees this ces-
sion: for the Bulgsrians it is the force
which preserves Serb rule in Macedo-
MIA, which n year ago was safely IN
Bulgar hands. For Italy it Is the CON-
bination OF the Western nations which
has challenged Italian claims to Fiume
given its support TO Slsv aspirations
which conflict with Italian from Trieste
to San Juan de Medua. to Greek pos
session Of Smyrna and Hellenic aspira-
tions In the Egean Islands, now held
by Italian garrisons.
Neither the Germans, the Austrian'
nor the Hungsrians, TO say nothing o
the Bulgarians, accept the settlement
of the Paris conference. which depriv
them Of territories long held BY them
as more than decisions to be endure'
while the powers making them retai
the force to impose them. Italy re
CARDS the league Of nations IS an asso
citation Of unsympathetic powers whic
have rejected Italy's claims and I'll re
paid Italy's services and sserihess
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which he took in the woods near
Ufa, one of which shows the body OF
a seventeen-year-old girl.
"At what was once the Ufa High
School," Mr.. Embry told reporters
earlier in the week
al talked with a woman who had
been a teacher there when the Bolshe-
wiki entered. When the Bolsheviki
came they lined up all the boys, the
little ones as we'll as the big ones, and
questioned them as to their sympathies.
All who were not killed were put to
work OF the most menal kind. and the
larger boys, against whom there was
suspicion that they might be anti-Bol-
shevist and therefore soon eligible for
service under Admiral Kolchak, were
taken out and shot.
"The girls in the school were ordered
TO serve in the barracks Of the Boil
shevist soldiers, their taskmasters
cursing and beating those who were
not blessed with good looks. As for
the good looking girls, to use the words
of their former teacher, they suffered
insults of the most horrible nature.
She was too modest to go into details
but we who heard understood.
"The extraordinary committee also
named a great number of hostages, and
after subjecting them to the most hor-
rible treatment ended their sufferings
by killing them and throwing the
bodies into the river. When was
told the story Of what happened to
these hostages it was so terrible that
I could not bring myself to believe,
and then the SHOWS melted and ! saw
the people searching among the bodies
in the woods for relatives and friends,
and then knew that there was nothing
too horrible TO be true so far as the
Bolshevik who had control there were
concerned.
THAT is, in brief, the story Of some
Of the horrors that were perpetrated IN
Ufa. II is a story that is parallcled
in practically every detail by what hap
pened in other cities and towns in the
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France Must Be Mdemnifed

II France does not obtain reparation,
if she Is not indemnifed for the wan
ton destruction of her industrial dis
tricts, nothing seems more certain than
that the suffering which will follow In
France will lead to national bankruptcy
and not improbably revolution. But
this would mean the removal OF the
single force which can compel German
compliance, it would leave France de-
fenceless before a new German attack,
and it would enable Germany, in the
end, not merely to reoccupy her old
territories, but to win the war itself, TO
deal with France as Bernhardi ad-
vised, so that France would never be
able to cross her pathway again.
All this is possible for Germany II
only she can create in the United
States and in Great Britain a senti-
ment against the French, and such a
sentiment has been at least started al
ready. She hopes. quite justly, to be
able to mobilize the so-called Liberals,
who have already protested against the
peace terms, to create a sentiment in
favor of a modification Of the financial
terms in these countries. and then to
profit directly by the saving in money
and indirectly by the ruin Of France.
But it is not merely to separate
France from her two Anglo-Saxon asso-
ciates that Germany plans; she Is quite
as determined to separate the United
States not merely from France but
from Britain. Already it is not difficult
to perceive in this country consider
able and growing anti-British cam
paign. Much Of this is accidental, more
of it due to the eternal Irish wrangle
but all Of il so much grist to the Ger
man mill. II the United States can be
persuaded to separate herself now from
the closest and most concerned interest
in her recent associates, in the re-
building Of France, in the restoration
Of British credit, II real break be-
tween Britain and America can be fos'
tered, half the German battle will be
won, half OF what was lost in the wal
recovered.
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bers Of the most violent and out
spoken men they mustered in their
ranks. One of the chief function
aries was a Lett at the head Of an
organization termed the EXtraor-
dinary Committee on Investigation.
The inquisitorial duties of this or
ganization were to examine any Of
the population, whether man, woman
or child, regardless of their youth or
infrmities, who might come under
suspicion as entertaining anti-Bol-
shevist ideas. The committee was
empowered to execute its prisoners
without the formality Of trial, a
privilege of which the committee
availed itself Immediately and fire.
quently during its tenure of Office.
The officers of the provisional
government were rounded up and all
suspected of harboring ideas hostile
to Bolshevism were shot immediate
ly. The president of the provisional
government, i'll and intirm, was
wheeled before the tribunal in an
invalid's chair, wheeled out again,
and shot personally by the Lett who
headed the committee. In every in
stance the condemned were denied
trial of any sort.
A few days after Mr.. Embry's ar
rival in Ufa he and his companions
noticed crowds filing toward the
nearby woods. The melting Of the
winter SHOWS revealed there what
had become of missing people in that
unhappy community. Men, women
and girls, many of the latter of ten
der years, had been driven thither BY
the Bolsheviki and murdered for
their alleged hostile sympathies.
Some had been shot at close range
others bore the traces of horrible
mutilations and others had evidently
been dubbed to death. Mr.. Embry
possesses photographs of the corpsesr
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had the opportunity, which he made
the most of, of visiting towns in the
Bolshevist region that had been cap
tured by Admiral Kolchak's troops
in their advance this spring, where
he saw for himself the most grew
some traces of the atrocities which
had been wrought in the name of
Bolshevik law and order, and heard
at first hand the stories Of the inhab-
itants who had survived the vista
ton of the mercenaries, the GRIM
inals and the depraved riff-raff that
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ohm Embry Back From Omsk Says Bolshevism Cant Las
Tells Also of the Horrors Committed by
the Red Terror in
Russia

liberated areas. the worst atrocities, %
the evidence shows. being committee
Just before the Bolshsviki evacuated
before the Kolchak advance.
Another woman I know who vas
also in jail during the Bolshevist oceu.
patton Of Ufa province was . Nine.
pemetriev. She saw six men lished
together in pairs and then hauled on
to the cemetery, where they wcrs
backed up against their already due
graves and then shot down into :hs
holes. Those who were in jail and
who escaped execution were eontinu'
ally informed OF what happened to
their comrades, whom they knew 20 Be
innocent Of wrongdoing and whose only
crime was counter revolution, which
under the Bolshevnt definition con-
sists Of anything and everything thss
Is opposed to Bolshevisn. Mr.. pems-
triev, the husband Of my inforraers
was executed for having on his per.
son a map or plan Of his farm. which
is sixteen miles distant from Bugulma.
"Again there is the fate Of boy.
who was the son Of . farmer. The
Bolshevist firing squad did not always
cover up their victims after exeeu.
tions. often the bodies were left un.
protected and uncovered in the open
graves. The boy have in mind had
been shot and left for dead. The father
went to the grave and found him still
alive. While he was trying to rescue
the lad a squad Of Red Guards hsp'
pened along and. going to the grave.
discovered the boy was still alive
They Immediately fired another volley
into the wounded body Of the boy. and
this time the execution was . success.
"In various places and at frequent
Intervals the Bolshevist authorities
would publish the names OF their vic
tins for the purpose Of terrifying the
remainder Of the population. There rs
the case Of a man named Vorrikcn.
who was executed in the most tortur-
ing fashion imaginable. He was shot
in the leg, In the arm. In the head
and finally bayoneted in the stomach"
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When Germany Loses

The Treaty Of Versailles does not &C.
complish German defeat in this war
/, merely provides . basis for the se-
complishment Of the fact. Germany
will have lost the war only when she
shall have paid the price Of her dew
astations. II France falls Germany viii
yet win the var; II size sspsrs,ss us
from the French and the British she
will prepare the way for . nev and
successful war. She will accept this
peace ss . settlement only when shs
understands that IL 10 permanently
guaranteed by the nations which COM
bined to defeat her and in combination
can always defeat her
German policy for the next months
and years is obvious; II may succeed.
and IL 1. does IL will make ell the sec.
rifce Of the last war in vain. for the
German spirit, the German ideals. the
German purpose remain the same. IL
will fail, the victory will be main.
tanned, II the friendship, sssoeiations
understanding between Great Eritsin,
France and the United States endure
and increase with the years. This ss-
socistion was the rock on which the
German attack broke, It IS the corner
stone Of world peace and world Free
dom for the future; II is the fact. We
only fact, in the dream Of . league oi
nations, for which It may become the
foundation, but without which there
can be neither Q league Of nations moi
more than . temporary peace In tho
world.
Copyright. 1919. ~ The Mcclure Nsvs
paper eyDltoats)
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York, having resigned
q. ,ost a, consul for the United
s..t., at Omsk, the capital city Of
tx Kolchak government, in Siberia,
Yh. thing just can't last. It's bound
~ come to an end. It's inevitable"
The ~thing" Mr.. Embry was re-
t.rring to is the Bolshevist system
Of. government as it is practised in
rurouean Russia. His statement is
h..ed on personal observation,
backed by photographs and numer-
en-, conversations with lucky trav-
.llers who had succeeded in coming
.hroueh" safely from the chaos Of
b,ood and thunder that certain
vould.be reformers still label as the
Russian Utopia. During the eight
months at his post in Siberia Mr..
Embry met first hand the enlighten-
iue system of Bolshevism. In the
beeinning it had his sympathy.
aAcademically," says Mr.. Embry,
who was graduated from Harvard in
1915, "I'm a Socialist. Lots Of us
over in Siberia were almost inclined
10 Bolshevism, as propaganda dem
oastrated it in the beginning, though,
NJ course, we all remained strictly
neutral. But now," and the light Of
hattie flashes in Mr.. Embry's eye
when he says it, when it comes to
Bolshevism, I'm ready for a good
seht. Now that I've got back here
I'm Just naturally the self-appointed
foe Of Bolshevism and everything
that has to do with the system.
"Oh, their propaganda was clever
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different. In the German mind the
Poles are an inferior people, German
frontiers in the east inviolable, and
Polish inability to maintain her inde-
pendence or her integrity unaided by
Western powers unmistakable.
From the outset, then, we may expect
German resistance in the East; II the
frontiers laid down by the Versailles
document are to be established they
ran only be established by Allied ar
mics. And will France, Great Britain
and the United States agree to send
troops to enable the Poles to occupy
West Prussia and Upper Silesia? At
least. Germany believes that there is a
uestion, and she means to test 1t.
But if the Allies do not enforce this
decision, then there Is an end Of real
Polish independence.
But in the matter Of Poland Ger
manv has other obvious purposes. She
champions the claims of the Lithu-
anians. the White Russians and the
Ruthenians against the Poles; she hopes
and Justly expects that the clashes be-
,ween the Poles and their Eastern
neighbors, with the Czecho-Slovaks into
the bargain, will give her precious al
lies, and that the protests of these sew
eral opponents of the Poles will create
prejudice against the Poles in AL
lied capitals. Behind all else, too, Ger
many hopes for the day when Russia
achieving new unity, will again JOIN
with Germany In an anti-Polish policy
promising new partitions and restora-
tion of the old situation on her East
ern marches.
As TO financial considerations, no one
can mistake German purpose. She has
already found an audience among the
elements in Allied nations which, IN
their eagerness for peace OF conciiia-
ton, are ready to make any sacrihce
to German demands. Her claim that
the financial burdens imposed upon
her are unjust will be urged with new
eloouence in the succeeding months and
years in America and in England, and
Germany hopes TO obtain support 1oi
the reduction OF these financial obliga'
tions.
This hope is the more strongly held
because the United States Is not al
all interested directly in German pay
mcnts, Great Britain only slightly; II
is France. together with Belgium, whicf
must have German reparations to re-
main solvent. But will the allies oi
France support her claims. even to the
extent Of new military operations, with
out benefit and bound to impose new
expenses upon themselves7 Germany
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Jnpanese Hostility

Nor can any American mistake the
latent hostility Of tho japanese to the
Western powers, which was hardly hid
den at Paris. The japanese felt quite
Justly that Britain, with her colonies,
although still an ally OF Japan, was
rapidly marching toward an aligr nent
with the United States, which would
mean a common policy n the Pacific,
designed in the end to rehabilitate
China and curb japanese ambitions.
Americas policies in tho Far East, the
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Of this q new German war is highly
improbable for at least decade.

Of this a new German war is highly
improbable for at least decade.
On the other hand, Germany will un-
questionably begin to prepare for the
next war on the very morrow OF the
signing Of the treaty of peace. But
her preparations will not be military, at
the outset. By contrast she will plainly
undertake to do three things: to avoid
compliance with territorial and fnan-
cial conditions of peace alike by ex-
ternal propaganda and passive resist
ance on her frontiers, to separate her
foes by intensive activities in the ia
miliar propaganda lines, by the ex-
ploitation Of real and possible differ
ences Of opinion between the nations
which have defeated her, and, finally, to
build up a new alliance, which shall in
due course Of time be strong enough to
renew the challenge of 1914.
To begin at the beginning, Germany
will not at once attempt resistance in
the west to the terms of peace. Alsace-
Lorraine is solidly in French posses
sion as is the Saar region. French
armies are encamped along the Rhine,
furnished with all the material for a
campaign. The same is true with respect
to the relatively insignificant terrific
ries on the Belgian frontier which
have been allotted to Belgium, and for
exactly the same reason. Germany can
not undertake now to reconquer terri
tory.
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means to try it out. But without these
financial reparations France is we'll
nigh ruined, and if the United States
and Great Britain do not support
France, then there is an immediate
breach in the alliance, which only while
it is an alliance can maintain the doc
ument of Versailles in full force.
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HOiC 1t Worked in Ufa

There was, for instance, the prov
ince of Ufa, which the Bolshevik
army, numbering about half regi-
ment, had occupied during the pc
riod extending from last November
to last March. Immediately upon
occupying the province, the Bolshe-
wiki set up what they termed a gov
ernment, placing in control num-
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06
By Frank II. Simonds

TIME circumstances Immediately
surrounding the German de-
l. cision to sign the Treaty Of
Versailles, the scuttling Of the
ships in Scapa Flow, the burning OF
the French battle flags, above all the
comment Of the German press and pub
lie men, demonstrate clearly in what
spirit Germany accepts peace. We are,
then, not in the presence Of defeated
enemy, which bows to the decision Of
arms, as France bowed to Europe's de-
rses when Napoleon had lost Water
loo and gone to St. Helena. What we
have to deal with for many years TO
come is a sullen, resentful, unrepentant
Germany, a Germany awaiting only
the chance to reverse the decisions Of
The recent conflict.
Il 10 essential then, at the outset Of
Z new period in world history, to lay
uids certain illusions fostered dur
ing the war and cherished for a time
after Germany had yielded last No
sember. We have not before Us a
promise Of a new age; we have not
hquidated the old quarrels out OF
which the present war grew; we have
not settled questions like the Balkans;
al the old problems remain, while to
them we have added innumerable fresh
dimeulties extending from the Ad-
datlc 70 Russia and from Danzig to
Hssopotamia.
But now, as before. the German
problem remains the most acute. What
are sixty millions Of people, hostile.
hating their eonquerors, confident still
Of their own superiority in virtue and
In rsee, going to do in the face OF the
conditions imposed upon them by the
Treaty OF Versailles? We know-they
have told Us 90 frankly, bluntly-that
hey do not accept the conditions, save
- the force behind these conditions
esnpsls temporary assent. For them,
~ one Of their most influential jour
hals has already announced. the neH
Treaty is a new "serap Of paper" But
N what direction must we look fol
German effort TO nullify this treaty7
The Next Var
On the military side II 10 plain that
much time will pass before Germany
esn organize . new war. Her defeat
sAs terms Of the treaty. the state Of
her frontiers, with the Rhinelands oe'
esplsd By Allied armies, make . post
psasmsnt Of new military opsrstion'
Tor ten. and perhaps for nfteen year,
likely, unless her enemies shall them
s'lvss, because Of internal disorders
"rive At the same state Of unprepsred
htss. We may say 1t the outset tha
revolution in France might easily b.
followed by . rssurssnes Of Csrmal
silitsry strength and . fresh Csrmsl
hSuDtiss sssess The Ahias. bst sAsE
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american Aid Needed

The truth, and Europe perceives 1t
clearly and in America there Is as yet
little perception Of it. is that for
France, and in only little less degree
for Britain, American cooperation IS
mntter Of life and death for the next
ten or twenty years. With our aid
both countries can presently regain
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Reign OF Terror


tinues, compare the reign of terror
in Russia to the Reign of Terror in
the French Revolution. They see
the same radical manifestations, the
changing of the calendar and the
like. All l can say is the Bolshevist
lenders are making pretty rank
imitation. There is nothing origi-
mai, nothing spontaneous about 1t.
In some respects it almost seems as
if they were aping the French Revo-
luton, copying the old institutions
sordidly and deliberately. People
coming ont tell me that one of the
latest things they have done is to
change Saturday to Sunday"
Just what benefits were likely to
accrue from this change Mr.. Embry
was unable to say, but he intimated
that it was in line with the logic of
many of the reforms now being
practised in that gigantic and isolat-
ed region that once was Russia.
This was one of the very few of
Mr.. Embry's statements, however,
that is based on hearsay alone. He
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true Russian patriot had to fight
with his bare fists against the law
of blood and thunder, and this is no
exaggeration. The armies headed
against Bolshevism have munitions
now, and the best troops the Boil
shevists can place against them are
mercenaries-Chinese for the most
part. They are paid with the worth
less paper money Of Bolshevism- but
their greatest inducement to con-
tinue fighting is their privilege to
loot and despoil whatever comes in
their way. There is lot Of prop
erty in Russia, and this is what
gives Bolshevism an army.
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made up the Lenine-Trotzky army
of occupation.