The sun., 1919-07-05
BOLSHEVIKI HISS
RUSSIAN PARADERS
Police With Nightsticks Pro-
tect Carpathians' Procession
and Mass Meeting.

The Carpatho- Russians, who were to
have been a part OF the all Russian
meeting in Carnegie Hall abandoned be-
cause Of alleged Bolsheviki threats OF
violence. held their own meeting last
night in Bohemian Hall in East Seventy
third street without serious interior
ence. From the moment they started
their parade to the meeting. from Ave-
nue. A and Seventh street until the
meeting adjourned they were protected
by a large force of uniformed. mounted
and other police under Inspector Under
word.
When the paraders gathered in Tomp-
kinS Square II was in the face Of Boil
shevist meeting on the sidewalks, and
they were heartily boohed and Missed.
They formed ranks with three mounted
patrolmen at the head and with a squad
OF nearly forty uniformed men bringing
up the rear and arrived without incident
at the hall. There the police were re-
inforced with a further detail. and
though there were more boohs and
Misses from the tenements across the
way no one attempted to interfere with
the marchers or with the long police
nightsticks.
Many persons along the route OF march
seemed at first to fear the parade repre-
scented the first manifestation of the
threatened red outbreak OF yesterday
The Carpatho- Russians. however, kept
the band of fifty pieces steadily at work
with the Star Spangled Banner" and
other American airs. At the head OF
the column marched two men In Amerl-
can uniform. one carrying the American
flag and the other the Russian flag.
Speakers Cheered Heartily.
The meeting was addressed by Gen
Dobrjensky. who fought throughout the
war. was technical aid to the Minister OF
War in the Kerensky Cabinet. and is
the military representative Of the Omsk
Government Of Admiral Kolchak in the
United States. Every reference to the
imminent downfall OF the Bolsheviki--
and there were many OF them at the
meeting-brought forth wild cheers from
the 200 men and women who paraded
and sat for more than two hours in the
steaming auditorium.
There was considerable criticism by
the speakers for the police in refusing
to guarantee protection for the Carne-
gle Hall meeting of anti Bolshevists
while they have permitted and appar.
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| ings in Madison Square Garden and
| elsewhere.
I'VE consider ourselves under the pro-
lection of American law" said Gen
Dobrjensky. land we believe that had
we been permitted TO meet with the
representatives of all Russia, as we had
planned. there would have been nc
disorder"
Bolshevism, he declared, was not Rus.
al ~ hut l1f.
his hearers that the BolshevikI were try
ing to spread the doctrine In this coun-
try just as they had spread II in Rus
sia. But he predicted that II would soon
be stamped out in both countries. He
| described the Omsk Government as an
organization OF patriotic democrats who
have already proved their ability to put
their devotion to Russia above party
| considerations.
Predicts Russia VIII Revive,
With the aid which America would
send as soon rs the situation is under
stood here, Gen. Dobrjensky predicted
that the Kolchak Government would vet
unite and revive Russia as a free, fed.
! Grated democracy. He declared that
| three OF Carpatho- Russla's greatest
heroes, who have fought for years
against Hungarian domination and who
| are now lighting against their countrv's
| annexation to Poland under the terms
OF the peace treaty, are about to arrive
In the United States through Japan
They are Drs. Sochotsky, Chorak and
| Bendsik.
Other speakers to appeal TO the patrI-
| otto sentiments of the Carpatho- Russians
| and protest against the inclusion OF
the territory in Poland and demand its
| Independence as a free member of the
Russian federation were the Rev. !. W.
Irwin. head OF the English work OF the
Russian Orthodox Church In America
j. Il. Conner. formerly American Consul
General at Petrograd. and Prince Gho-