Charlevoix county herald., 1919-08-01
Passes Needed After II.


After II o'clock none may leave the
house without pass signed by Peters,
and only given to conciliar workers on
night business and agents of the ex-
traordinary commission, who form the
sole night traffic i'm motorlorries con-
Quoting perquisitions. These are so
thorough that If arms, even in q hol-
ster, are found concealed in garnet or
court, the president of the house COM
mittee is shot. The informant knows
a case where whole family was shot
because field glass case was found
in flat. The universal terror makes
the people repulse visitors even when
bearing help or letter, fearing to be
compromised on cOunter-revolutiona
denunciatiOns. Jakovelva, the notori-
Gus murderess, chief of the extraor-
binary commission has gone to Mos
COW and has been replaced by an in
dividual bearing the alias "the bear"
In the army all officers without fami-
lies are dismissed from the higher COM
mands and sent to the rear They are
replaced by men whose families have
been taken hostages. The wives and
families of officers are kept In special
concentration camps near Moscow,
whittier they were dispatched last
week.
Many women have been shot when
their husbands were suspected of coun-
ter-revolution. The officers are all dis
armed except those known to be COM
munist party workers. Soldiers have
the right to shoot officers on the bare
suspicion of counter-revolution.
The immediate cause for the in
crease in terror is the abortive move
ment at Krasnavagora, engaging boil
shevists and inspiring them to devote
all their efforts to outroot the White
organizations in Petrograd.
Among officers and workmen the boil
shevists are taking the opportunity to
arrest all foreigners remaining in
Petrograd, including women.
Allies Seem PowerIess.
There is terrible disillusion In Petro-
grad with the allies, who seem only to
threaten and unable to deal serious
stroke, thus allowing the thousands of
patriots to be slaughtered and inflict-
ing mental torture. A month ago the
universal question in Petrograd was:
"Will the allies give food IL they take
the city," Now the question of food
has ceased to interest. though starva-
feso f- .
"Will the allies come quickly? If not,
then let them give over altogether. The
present state Is unbearable. It is bet
ter to die quietly Of starvation than
thus be bounded to DEATH"
Owing to similar cause peasant ris-
ings, common as winter throughout the
country, now are seldom. Owing to
the frequency with which the peas
ants joined the Whites who afterward
retreated, all the peasant families were
slaughtered simultaneously.
Following the feverish efforts on the
part of the bolshevists to prepare
against the surrender Of Petrograd on
the eleventh, as previously telegraphed,
the civil evacuation was completed by
the .twenty-second. All received ma
terial at the factories and military
stores of secondary Importance were
evacuated and all telephone commuta-
tors dispatched to Moscow, but on the
nineteenth an order came from Mos
COW to evaeuate only parts of the ma
chinery, not the benches and perma-
nent fittings, reducing the extent of the
work Of the chief commissary. A line
of trains is ready instantly TO flee to
the Volga towns.