The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-02-12
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IS BLAMED
FOR SUCCESS
BoISheyik Agitators in u. ST.
SimonS Says,
FEAST SIDE" IS H0TBED
Russian DebaCIe Traced TO
Gotham by ChurChman,

,By The Associated Pre1sD
WASHINGTON. Feb. l2-->ucoeA
OF the bol,heyik movement ~ Russia
was attributed 10 iidi'h aii from
New York, by Rev g. \ Simon,, for
mer head oi the Methodist. Episcopal
church IN Russia. testliying today
at the senate judiciary sub commit
tees inquiry into llwle's agitation
N the United States.
Referring to bol,hcyism, DR.. Si-
mons said
Il have firm conviction that this
agitation . liddiSh and that one Of
rs bases IS IN the lower East Side OF
',ev York ! don't think the boil
,heyik movement in Russia would
have been success except for the
,upport It got in New York
The Turn In Russia.
Immediately after the kerensky
revolution early IN 1917. Dr.. Simons
said. sentiment IN Russia was pro-
ally. bu, with the bol,heyik move
ment a strong pro-German sentiment
developed with more than hall the
ag,a,ors Jews, including many from
New York
The witness said a woman, a mem-
Der OF his church and a teacher in
Smolny Institute, peuograd. head
quarters OF the bolSheyiStS before they
overthrcw kerensky. frequently saw
German Officers At a council table
with bolShcvik leaders and reported
hearing German spoken more fre-
quently than Russian DR.. Simons
suggested th' language nigh, have
been liddi,i instead OF German.
German, Financed Strike.
DR. Simons declared that before
Russia entered the war he heard that
| hundreds OF thousands OF rubles had
been placed BY Germans in the hands
OF labor leaders IN Pe,rograd to cause
strike IN industrial plants after war
opened. The strike was pu, down by
IN old rcg,n,
DR. Simon, ,ail he now was having
Investigated report coming to him
/ On apparently good authority, that the
! governing committee OF the northern
commune m Pctrograd in December.
1918, contained only sixteen true
Russians, Pos persons from New York
and one American negro calling him.
sell Prot Gordon.
The witness said bolshevist agi,a,-
ors followed him when he delivered
lecture, on Russia and distributed at
the door pamphlets entitled Seventy
six Questions and Answers" on boil
Sheyism IN Russia. written BY AL
Der, RhyN Williams. a speaker at
rc,cr, m"c.rng in Washington, which
, prcmn,cd the senate committees new
inquiry \ paragraph on religion Of
the bolShcyl't system in this booklet
was described hv DR. Simons as an
"irtereS:.na ialry tale"
U S l,cCro on Council.
, Quest'oncl about an American nc.
pro in holsicyl,, councils called PRO.
tcSsor Gordon DR. Simons said in
the United State, he had been
pugili>t and in Petrograd door
keeper at the American embassy.
b. Later he assumed the title OF Pro-
tcSsor ot Physical Culture and Box
ing AZ ono time. Dr. Simons said,
the negro wanted to marry a Rus
sian lady and asked hun to perform
the ceremony.
American propaganda in Russia
seeking TO explain real motives OF the
! United States in the war irritated the
holShcyiStS. the witness said and Rus
sian aPlta'orS posted bills referring
10 the ilesh-eating, blood drinking al.
lies.
Bolshsviki Hate Allies.
Most real bolShevists have hatred
for England and the allies and afiec-
ton Tor Germany, he added. although
many displayed a tendency 10 main
tain friendly relations with the United
States.
The witness said he often dressed
like a Russian workman in Pe,rograd
aNN circulated among the crowds
there TO study the bolshevik movement
| The average man hatangued by asi.
,a'ors, he testified wa, isnoran, and
entirely correct to all agi'a,ors, re.
gatdlest of the doctrines they
preached
Dr. Simon' left Russia last Oc,o-
bcr and is n1w associated with The
Washington Square Methodist Hpis.
copal church, New York He had bees
in Russia since 1907 lie said he b.
lievcd in and loved Russia. but ~
this bolshcvik thing. 8s
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