Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-07
.bOLSHEV|K RULE
IN RUSSIA WANES
MINISTER HOME FROM EUROPE
TELLS OF ACTUAL
CONDITIONS.
LEVINE OFFICIALS 90
PER CENT GERMANS
1oIshsviki Do Not Represent Russian
People and They Are Tired Of
Foreign Dictation-Rsv. George A.
Simons Tells Of Horrors in Former
Empire-Massaerss Not Checked.

Des Moines. May THE bolshevih
government in Russia is slowly but
surely crumbling, says Rev. George
A. Simons, who was in Russia fol
eleven years, ending Oct. s, 1918
and who has just returned from Fin
land, where, as head of the Metho-
dist relief commission, he was in
close contact with conditions in east
ern Europe.
'Lenine knows it and is trying tc
pull out says DR.. Simons. "Trot-
sky wants to go thru the wall with
his head, tho, and Lenine has a delt.
cate problem on his hands. However
bolshevik commissions are visiting
other countries, trying to establish
relations with the outside world. Or
three occasions stayed in the same
hotel with the bolshevik commits
sions.
IA number of the bolshevik lead
ers are buying large estates In diff.
ferent parts of Europe. They se<
that bolshevism is doomed"
Conditions of the Worst.
Conditions in Russia are frightful
now. according to DR.. Simons. Lady
MarIing. wife OF the British min.
lister in Copenhagen. Denmark. hal
charge of the relief work among the
900 British refugees who have come
out of Russia during February and
March.
"She says they all tell the same
story-that the county 10 in q
frightful state, economically, socially
and morally. and that terrorism IL
rampant, They all believe that the
end 10 not far away
It now costs between $4,000 and
$4,000 r,lbles month just to obtain
food enough to sustain life. he says
the refugees have told him. To q
large extent the lack Of faith in the
currency turned out by the bolshevik
government has caused . return to
primitive conditions. Tho peasants
refuse to exchange their food pro-
ducts for the worthless money, hut
they win trade butter ana wheat fol
clothing or other articles they may
fancy. W
Massaerss Unchecked.
Massacres. of the bourgoisie. con-
tinues. he says. On the same day
that the central soviet at Moscow
issued m edict doing away with
capital punishment the extraordinary
commission at Petrograd had 2ot
men murdered. their offense being
that thsy belonged e, the iptslli-
'Esn1lax
Unbelievable moral conditions OBJ.
tain. the refugees have told him. and
every day fresh horrors are 4arned
TO prejudice the Russians still more
against their rulers. A gruosome
story. which DR.. Simons says ID au.
thenticated, 10 to the effect that the
Chinese sxecutioners who were call.
ed In whom the Russians refused tt
serve, were discovered selling thu
flesh Of their victims in the market
for meat. For this crime they wert
sentenced to three months imprison.
ment. while priests were shot for M
offense at all.
Before Or. simons left Russia, h,
could SEE the lines Of prisoner
marched down the thoroughfares Il
the river, placed on barges and talsel
to Kronstadt, where they were killed
Searched. HE Hons.
DR.. eimons. himself suffered from
the bolshevik. His homo was search
ed ON many occasions, the soldier,
often pushing their weapons asains
his chest and once . price Of 500
rubles was put on his head.
II got much Of my Information
from . man whom had known
eleven years." says DR.. simons. III,
was the pastor Of the only Luther
an church in Russia. One day h,
and his wife and daughter stag
gered into the hotel at viborg. Fin.
land where I was staying. The!
had fled for their lives and ha4
waded snow that was often breas
high. They reached viborg NOR
dead than alive.
HE told me that there was
very bad shortage Of food. waite
and fuel in Petrograd. and a. q re
suit Of insanitary conditions thu
produced. q typhus epidemic wa
raging. e ~
''He said that thirty-five physi
clans had died Of the disease and IF
teen more were seriously i'll when b,
left, 20 that the town had most In
adequate medical protection.
7 wish everyone could know tina
the bolshevik government does not ii
any way represent the true Rus
slams. The officials are, 90 per cen
Of them. Germans, who were SEN
into Russia by the Germans to con
troll the country after the revolution