The Washington times., 1919-11-09

lies held as hostages. They are
watched continually by Bolshevik
"commissars" and the slightest move
in the wrong direction would result
disastrously not only for the officer
himself, but for his family at home.
These statements are not gathered
from hearsay evidence. I have
learned of conditions in the red army
by conversations with scores of prison
ers taken by our forces in the north,
stretchingS over a period of many
months, and from refugees who fire.
Quently escaped from the interior and
made their way to our lines for pro-
lection.
Boys PitifuI story.
~ recall a certain case during my
service with the allied intelligence
section in the north. An agent of the
division OF which I had charge re-
ported that a Bolshevik spy had sue
ceeded in crossing our lines and was
about to leave Archangel with val
liable information for the enemy. l
sent out a force OF men with orders
to take him at all costs.
"a short while later he was appre-
hended, but fled into a dark street
and it was necessary to shoot him in
mortally wounded, but before his
death 1 had a long conversation with
him, and learned his pitiful story. He
was perfectly conscious and knew
that his hours were numbered. and he
told me the truth.
''He was a boy Of perhaps eighteen,
with an open, appealing face-the last
person on earth one would have
taken to be a spy. He told me how
he had crossed our lines and freely
answered all my questions.
Finally l asked him, How did you
ever happen to become a Bolshevik?"
"I am not a Bolshevik," he quickly
replied, lat home l was the sole sup
port Of my mother. They took me
into the Bolshevik army and made me
serve as a spy. I have served them
that she might live"
, That is just one individual instance
in passing to show the dastardly
methods of that damnable system.
Many people ask: why should we
concern ourselves about Russia. Why
not let Russia settle her own internal
affairs or stew in her own Juice
Il would like to answer that Ques-
ton by repeating a conversation l had
in Moscow with a young acquaintance
of mine whom I had formerly known
in Petrograd and who had in some in
explicable manner become injected
with the germs of Bolshevism.
We will spread the doctrine of Boil
sheyism throughout the world" he
said. Existing governments must go.
We will bring about a world revolu-
ton. The old order is doomed. Our
program is to internationalize the
world. We will spread our propa-
ganda to the ends of the earth. We
will not stop until our aims are ac-
complished."
do you means that you would seek
to overthrow the Government OF the
United States" asked.
Certainly" he replied.
And destroy our national pride and
national patriotism everywhere" in =
quired."
Patriotism Is Curse"
Exactly" he answered. Patriot
ism is the curse of humanity
That is the Bolshevik dream. To
destroy national pride and national
patriotism; to tear down the institu-
tions founded by the blood of our fore
fathers and make draught-horses of
us all.
That's the internal affair in Rus
sia that people tell US to leave alone.
There's one observation want
to make to you-the observation of an
American who for three and a half
years has watched the trend of things
in America from a foreign land.
1T appears to me that we have
permitted politics to enter into this
Russian question. l am even led to
believe that certain people have taken
advantage Of the very existence of a
human race in order to further their
private political fortunes.
This is the one question of all
questions that have ever faced man
kind which should be left distinctly
out OF politics.
This is a time for all men to unite
their forces and combat this disease
which threatens the human race.