Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-09
F francis PAINTS
DARK PICTURE Of
BOLsHEv|SN NOW
RULING RUSSIANS
Says Cutters Ran With Blood
Of People Wantonly Slain by
Reds Under Orders From
TrotskM Now War Secretary
ROUNDLY DEN0UNCES
RAYMOND ROBINS
Hundreds From America u. S.
FIocked to Petrogradi Warn
ing Sent to President Against
Granting Passports,

MORNING JOURNAL spECiAL Leased WlREl
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 Investigating law
less propaganda, warned that should
the Bolshevists be permitted to re-
main in power all Russia would be
exploited by the Germans. Within
ten years under such conditions, he
said. Germany would be the victor of
the war in that the nation would be
stronger in every way than 1t was In
1914.
Ambassador Francis told the COM
.mittee that complete and thorough
understanding of the Russian menace
convinced him that with the Bolshe-
visits in power in Russia, peace not
only in Europe but throughout the
entire world was an utter impossible
ity He said that even now there was
good reason for believing that Ger
man and Austrian officers We're with
the red forces operating in northern
Russia and he added that the Ger
mans steadily We're getting grip
upon the vitals of Russia and her in
dustries.
" Attacks Reyt-Wnti iRosins
Mr.. Francis further testified that
information had reached him that
Raymond Robins, former American
Red Cross commissioner to Rus ia,
had upon his return to the United
States carried a proposal from the
Bolshevik government to President
Wilson. This proposal, he said, he
understood, was an offer of certain
concessions to the American govern
ment similar to those granted Ger
many in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
The ambassador said so far as he
knew, Mr.. Robins was never given an
opportunity to present the proposal
to the president.
In reply to questions from mem
bers of the committee, Mr.. Francis
said 1t 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 Boil
shevists wished to conceal the pro-
posal from the governments associ-
dleu WITH Inc lHlltu EolHltS,
Orgy of Murder Predicted.
The ambassador was asked what
would happen if Americans and all
lied troops were withdrawn from nor
thern Russia. and in reply asserted
that he was positive the Bolshevists
would sweep in and engage in an
orgy of murder and destruction on IA
scale such as the world had never
seem
Reports that the Bolshevists were
sending their agents into Germany,
France and England. were upheld by
the ambassador, who said he be-
lieved the efforts in this country thus
far had taken the form of money for
use in spreading of their propaganda.
He tol9 of the delivery of Bolshevist
propaganda to the armies of the al
lies and the United States in France,
The ambassador said the soviet
government had recently been petit
toned not to carry out the donation
alization of certain banks, the OBJ
jects of the petitioners being, he
! said, to allow German agents to OBJ
tain control of the stock of these in
| stitutions.
BoIshcyists i'm Minority.
Mr.. Francis said it was not true
| that the mass Of the Russians favored
the rule of the Bolshevists AS a
matter of fact, according to Ambas-
sador Francis, less than constantly
dwindling ten per cent of all the peo-
! pie in Russia belongs to the BOlshe-
visits. He painted vivid picture of
the terror that reigns in the old coun-
try of the czar and told of one In
! stance where the cutters from a
court yard in Petrograd actually ran
with blood from the victims of the
! Bolshevists. Many were killed with
| out even charges being made against
! them and on several occasions, the
! ambassador asserted, wholesale kill
| ings were INDUCED in. He said more
| than 500 innocent hostages were
killed at one time and that his OBJ.
servation of conditions and affairs
in Russia led him to believe that the
! Bolshevists in their every day prac-
! tices committed excesses far beyond
even the widest dreams of anar-
chists.
Destroy Property and Life.
anarchists, as i understand
them" he declared, believe only in
the destruction of property. The Boil
shevists believe in the destruction of
property and life as well for they
realize that their only means of con-
j tinuing in power is by killing all those
who dare to oppose them"
Speaking of the Czecho-Slovak
forces in Russia, Mr.. Francis said
there was not the slightest doubt but
I that they were betrayed by Trotzky.
at the instigation of the Germans.
Trotzky, said the ambassador. agreed
to assist the Czecho- -Slovaks to leave
i Russia il they would lay down their
!. arms and at the same time issued a
n secret order promising to punish, any
I Russian trainmen whe in any way
|, assisted them to get out of the coun-
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