The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-13
SAYS BOLSHEVIKI
 MUST BE CRUSHED
David R. Francis. Testifying Before Senate Committee. Says It Is Constant Penace to Peace of
 the World.

Washington, March S.-David R. Francis, who went to Russia as American ambassador in 1916 before the overthrow of the monarchy and who remained there until after the Bolshevists had seized the govern ment, in testifying today before the Senate committee, warned that should the Bolshevists be permitted to re- main in power all Russia would be oN- plotted by the Germans.
 Within ten years under such condi- lions. he said Germany would be the victor of the war in that the nation would be stronger in every way than it was in 1914.
 Bolshevism Menace to World.
 Ambassador Francis told the com mittee that a complete and thoro un- derstanding of the Russian menace convinced him that with the Bolshe- vists in power in Russia, peace not only in Europe but turnout the entire world was an utter impossibility. He said that even now there was good reason for believing that German and Austrian officers were with the Red forces operating in Northern Russia and he added that the Germans steadily werre getting a grip on the vitals of Russia and her industries.
 Mir. Francis further testified that information had reached him that Raymond Robins. former American Red Cross commissioner to Russia, had, upon his return to the United States, carried proposal to President Wilson. This proposal, he under stood was an offer of certain conees- sions to the American government similar to those granted Germany in the treat of Brest-Litovsk.
 The ambassador said so far as he knew, Mir. Robbins was never given an opportunity to present the propos- al to the President
 Must Keep Troops There.
 In reply to questions from mem- bers of the committee, MT. Francis said it was his understanding that the soviet government did not desire to make a similar proposal to Great Britain, France and the other Allies. On the contrary, his information, he said. was to the effect that the Bol- shevists wished to conceal the pro- posal from the governments associat- ed with the United States.
 The ambassador was asked what would happen if American and Allied troops were withdrawn from North ern Russia, and in reply asserted that he was positive the Bolshevists would sweep in and engage in an ogry of murder and destruction on a scale such as the world has never seen.
 Reports that the Bolshevists were sending their agents into Germany, France and England, were upheld by the ambassador, who said he believed the efforts in this country thus far had taken the form of money for use in spreading their propaganda. He told of the delivery of Bolshevists propaganda to the armies of the AL lies and the United States in France.
 Mir Francis said it was not true that the mass of the Russian favored the rule of the Bolshevists. As a mat ter of fact, according to Ambassador Francis, less than a constantly dwind- ling of 10 per cent of all the people in Russia belong to the Bolshevists. He painted vivid picture of the ter TOT that reigns in the old country of the czar and told of one instance where the gutters from a courtyard in Petrograd actually ran with blood from the victims of the Bolshevists. Many were killed without even charges being made against them and on sew eral occasions, the ambassador assert cd, wholesale killings were indulged in. He said more than five hundred innocent hostages were killed at one time, and that his observation of conditions and affairs in Russia led him to believe that the Bolshevists in their every day practices commit. ted excesses far beyond even the wild est dreams of Anarchists.
 Bolshevism Worse Than Anarchy.
 Anarchists, as I understand them, he declared, believe only in the de struction of property. The Bolshe vists believe in the destruction O. propertv and life as we'll for the,