The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-07
RUSSIA TODAY A SHAMELESS!
BOLSHEVIK RULERS CONTINUE
THE "REIGN OF TERROR
Fearful Story of Conditions Told
BY Maj. Spacek, Recent Eye
Witness of Horrors; Bolshe'
wiki Indicted as German Aids
and Emulators of Hun Atroci-
ties.

Editors Note.-What are the Boil
sheyiki doing in Russia! What does
Holsberism mean in Russia, when 1t
1ourishes? Is it honest or dishonest:
These are questions that all America
wants answered. Russia il far cry
from all our shores. Conflicting stories
come to US by cables and In correspond
e,,ce, Major Jaromir Spacek, who
wrote the following for this newspaper
is Czecho- Sloyak soldier who only re-
Gently left the Czecho-Sloyak armies IN
Siberia. The Czecho- Slovaks are slaVs:
mostly Bohemians, and were part O.
Austria's army. While Russia was
still fighting, these Bohemian soldiers
we're taken prisoners or they deserted
to the other side. When Russia le1t
the war, there were some W,UO OF
these soldiers, and, as the German army
began to oyerrun the land, the Bohc-
uians decided to leave Russia by way
Of Siberia and 60 to France to fight
with the forces Of democracy Tor BOhc-
MAS liberty. They began marching
from wherever they happened to be.
Suddenly, the Bolsheviki attempted to
stop them and disarm them. The
CZecho- Slovaks, who, by the way, are
all republicans, resisted; and, ever
since they have been at war with the
Bolshcyiki. Most Of them are still ma
rooned in parts Of Russia and Siberia,
but few are constantly getting thru
to Vladivostok, where they set sail to
America. Major Spacek is one Of them.
His observations in Russia and Siberia
have been so recent and his reputation
is so we'll established that the follow
ing article can only be looked upon as
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
By MAJOR JAROMIR SPACEK
Military Aide at Washington to Pro
fcssor r. G. Masaryk, President OF
the Czecho-Sl Republic.
Whether revolutiOn-tOrn Germany
will finally sink down under Bolshe-
Wiki regime or not, one thing IS GER
tain. under the auspices, encourage
meut. plots and financing Of a kaiser
ruled Germany, Russia was thrown to
the tender mercies of the BOlshevikj
mob, who thereafter worked every hour
and every day in the interests OF Ger
many. .... C..
They were pro- German throughout.
In the service Of Germany, they disor-
ganizcd the Russian army and destroy
ed Russian industry and agriculture.
In the service Of Germany they sent
the Russian governments gold, to the
kaiser's agents. They fought every ele-
1nelltf that was opposed TO the kaiser
and that is why they sought to- hight
the Czecho- Slovaks.
And their very army, their Red,
Guard, had as 80 per cent Of it's Dem-
bership German and Magyar Hunga-,
RAM prisoners of war III Russia. When
our CZechs killed some Of this sO-called
Red Guard We found on their bodies
registration cards indicating that the
individual was German or Magyar
prisoner Of war in Russia. We also
found printed orders signed either by
Emperor William or Emperor Karl Or
dcring these prisoners to enlist IN the
Bolshevik army. Could any stronger
proof be required to convince any sane
man that the Bolsheyik regime was u
pro- German regime?
POOR INCITED TO HATRED
Owing to their neglected condition
under the old cZarist regime, the mass
Of the peasants, with little or no edu-
cation. kept in subjugation by the min
istry, the military and the priests, had
the most primitive ideas about the
function Of government. They were
easily inHamed by pictures Of Utopia
which could not possibly be realized.
They were easily led to a passionate
hatred of not only the rich but Of COM
mon men and women who had accu-
mulated small homes and homestcads
by their labor.
All that Bolshevism accomplished,
however, was to bring on state OF
anarchy and wholesale destruction and
murder. Promised social reform in pro-
.prietorship Of land and in industry
have resulted only in the destruction Of
factories and business and in the fail
urc to cultivate vast reaches Of land
which formerly produced the food upon
which Russia lived.
Factories were burned by mObs led
by Bolsheviks. And even where land
was divided among the mob, it was
impossible to work it because Of lack
of farm tools and machinery.
Men who knew how to run factories
to produce goods were either murdered
or forced to conceal themselves. \
The peasants. who had owned their
farms before the revolution. produced
only enough food last summer to salts