Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-09
Hum Exploits Of Russia Defeat
 ALied Victory
fContinued from Pad onel

murder and OeSIrucIlOn on a SCc1e such as the world has never seen
 Reports that the bolshevists were sending their agents into Germany, France and England were upheld by the witness, who said he believed the efforts in this country thus far had taken the form of money for use in spreading of their propaganda He told of the delivery of boskevist propaganda 10 the armies of the al lies and the United States in France
 The ambassador said the soviet gov ernment had recently been petiticned not to carry out the denatiOnaliZa- tion of certain banks, the objects of the petitioners being. he said, to al low German agents to obtain control of the stock of these institutions
 NIT. Francis said 1t was not true that the mass of the Russians favor ed the rule of the bOlShevists- As a matter of fact, according to Ambas- sador Francis, less than a constantly dwindling 10 per cent of all the people in Russia belongs to the bolshevlsts- He painted a vivid picture of the ter TOT that reigns in the old country of the czar and told of one instance where the zutters from a courtyard in Petrograd actually ran with blood from the victims of the bOlshevists-
 Wholesale Slaughter
 Many were killed without even charges being made against them and ou several occasions. the ambassador asserted. wholesale killings were in dulged in. He said more than 800 in noeent hostages were killed at one time and that the observation of con ditions and affairs in Russia led him to believe that the bOlshevists in their every day practices committed ex- cesses far beyond even the widest dreams of anarchists
 Anarchists, as l understand them, he declared. believe only in the de struction of property The bolshe- vists believe in the destruction ol property and life as well for they req lize that their only means of cOntinu- ing in, power is by killing all those who dare to oppose them
 Speaking of the CZecho-SlOvak forces in Russia, MT. Francis said there was not the slightest doubt but that they were betrayed by Trotzky, at the instigation of the Germans Trctzky. said the ambassador, agreed to assist the CzechO-Slotaks to leave Russia if they would lay down their arms and at the same time issued a secret order promising to punish any Russian trainman who in any way assisted them to get out of the coun- try. Later these CzechO-SlOvaks were treacherously attacked
 Flat contradiction was given by Am bassador Francis to statenssnts of previous witnesses before the com mittee to the effect that a free press existed in Russia
 BoIsheviki Favor Robins
 The ambassador discussed Colonel Robins at some length. He said he had heard the Red Cross representa- tive referred to as the -mOuthpiece of America, % and the reference became so frequent that he was obliged 10 issue a public notice saying that he reDrssented the American government and statements coming from any other source were unauthorized. NIT. FralS cis declared that Colonel Robins want ed him to follow the bolshevist gov eTnment to Moscow" when it moved there from Petrograd- The Red Cross representative was said by the min ister to have had every facility placed at his disposal by the bOlshevists, with whom he was persona grata- Ee said when Colonel Robins travelled, the bOlshevists telegraphed ahead to help him in every way and that he had authorization to have what telegrams he sent put ahead of all other mess ages. such privileges being denied to the ambassador.
 The ambassador said that on ti e night of the suppression of the con stituent assembly. the belshevists eX- pected trouble and three of the mary hundred Americans who came to Rus sia were on guard at the soviet min istry of foreign affairs. He declared these to have been John Reed. writer who has appeared before the committee, a man named Humphreys and another named Reinstein. whose home was said to be in Buffalo. The Ambassador asserted that in a single week 800 Americans arrived in Ru F. sia and that many of them associated with the bolshevists soon thereafter. The ambassador said he warned the state department and recommended that passports be not issued to Ame-- jeans to come to Russia
 Albert Rhys Williams, a previous witness before the committee was re- ferred to by Mir. Francis. who said Williams freely associated with the bolshevists and was an advocate = their principles.
 Oliver M. Sayler. who said he WAS a dramatic critic of the Indiana Police News and was in Russia during tl,e early days of the bOlshevist revoIu- ton described conditions as he said he found them.
 Subject to the further Call of Sen ator Overman. chairman, the commit tec adjourned at the conclusion of the taking of MT. SayleT's testimony It was said 10 De doubtful whether any further witness would be asked to te5- tify before the committee
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