The Washington times., 1919-11-09
j. s. ARMY OFFICER
GIVES RED CURE
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ing a plea to them to disregard the
BrestLitovsk treaty with Germany.
which had been ratified by the central
Soviet at Moscow.
In Terror of Reds.
81 had come to the conclusion that,
although / was dealing with a Boil
shevik soviet, 1 was not dealing with
individual Bolsheviks.
Il thought you people were Bolshe-
viks,' 1 said to a friend rof mine in
the Murmansk soviet.
"The Bolsheviks are in Moscow" he
answered.
why don't you tell Moscow where
to get off at?' l asked linn.
They would return the compliment Mt
and send red army up to see that we
accepted the invitation" he replied
IF we had any assurance of sub
stantial assistance from the outside
row." he continued. "At the present
time our lives and the lives of every
inhabitant OF the Murmansk district is
In the hands of the central soviet If
they sought to starve us into submis-
sion, they could do so by simply cut
ting of our supplies. If they sought
to intimidate us by force they have
the men and guns with which to do
it,"
THE history of the negotiations be-
tween the allied governments and the
Murmansk soviet would transcend the
scope OF this conversation, but suffice
IT to say that the Murmansk soviet
did break relations with the central
soviet by a vote Of Al to 4, and the
war in the north began.
: "hater, on July 1. 1918, I had the
pleasure of accompanying the first
allied expedition to Aarchangel. The
people Of Archangel, having heard
that We had sailed from Murmansk
arose against the local Bolshevik gov
eminent and overthrew IT before our
arrival. Our landing at, Archangel
was attended by enthusiastic demon
strations on the part of the populace
The populations of Vologda ami
other cities and town in the interior
Where 1T was thought our forces wouI!
rapidly advance, were likewise anNi-
ousiy awaiting our arrival, and were
ready to overthrow the yoke of Boil
sheyism the moment they knew ef-
fectiye assistance to be in sight I'm
fortunately. on account OF the ex-
treme weakness OF our original ex-
peditIon-a mere HANDFUL of men
we were unable to push very far into
the interior, so that the people of
Nolodga and other cities of the in
terror never had an opportunity to
carry out their plans to join us.
Il have always thought that a
reasonably strong force in the north
at that time could have put an eni
10 Bolshevism in Russia. The Boi-
shevik forces fled before us in terror
until they found out that they had
us outnumbered at every point by 81
TO i. Then they stopped and took
courage. The tragedy of the thing
lay in our weakness in the north ami
our inability to get re-inforcements
in time to strike an effective blow
But that's all ancient history now.
BoIshevism q Disease.
What is Bolshevism? It's a dis
ease, inflicted upon mass of igno-
rant human beings through the in
strumentality OF hired eloquence. in
timidstion by terror and systematic
starvation. It's sometimes known as
the red terror / prefer to call IT
the red plague
How has it remained in power in
Russia for two years? many people
have asked. 1t is not at all strange
when one takes into consideration the
methods of Bolshevism.
The soldier of the Red army is
given food and clothing-at least
enough to keep him alive-and his
family is placed in the preferential
category by the food administration.
AS long as he is good Bolshevik
soldier. and behaves himself he eats,
and so does his family. Empty
stomachs have a powerful influence
on mans conscience.
Family Pays Price.
'Tf a soldier OF the Red army de-
serts, his family pays the price-and
he knows it.
Il have been asked why the soldiers
of the Red army do not rise up and
turn their arms on Bolshevism.
'If the soldiers of the Red army
knew that on a certain moment of
certain day a general uprising would
take place. on that certain moment
of that certain day Bolshevism would
cease to exist. The trouble is they
have no means of combining their
forces. In the first place the regi-
ments OF the Red armies are being
moved about from place
to place-mixed with one regiment
this week, another next week and so
on.
They are never left together long
enough to find out who are friends
and who are enemies. And in addition
to that, they have been intimated by
the hordes of highly remnuerated
spies who constantly
mingle among them and who take ad-
OF the slightest hint at
mutiny to report and bring about
wholesale executions as a gentle OBJ
ject lesson to the remaining COM
rades. A man in the red army never
speaks and seldom whispers of mutiny
a second time.
Armies Wen Ofncered.
You wonder at the successes of the
BoIshevik armies. Their operations
are directed by some of the best Of
hcers of the old imperial army. Prac-
ticalIy all of these officers are COM
pelled to serve by having their fami-
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