Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-11
GRIM HUNGER FACES REDS
las ARMED VICTORY LOOMS
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A military organization, disciplined to
the core, finds a growing difficulty in
carrying out orders by the mailed-fist
tactics in which it has hitherto been
supreme.
From east to west, the bolshevik
soldiers are militarily trained through
out and differed the same as any other
regularly organized army. Controlled by
the soviet political commissars, they
stand prepared at all times to fix frm,
ly upon the people the new social
system prescribed in the supreme flats
issuing from Moscow.
Military Machine Perfect.
At the end of the second year since
the bolsheviki have assumed direction
of the proletariat, Russia remains in
the firm grasp of this military regime.
1t is the same force which has beaten
back invading foreign armies on all
fronts. the same that has overcome all
counter-revolutionary movements.
The soviet leaders are capitaliZing
their victories to the utmost. They
are instilling into the minds of the
people that the red forces have de-
feated the worlds armies, which seek
to enslave Russia and set up another
form of Tsarist government. They are
urging upon them that the tragic
sufferingS and sacrifices will firmly
establish national security and spread
the cause of social revolution through
out all lands. In some cases, along
the eastern frontier, these pleas fall
upon the unwilling ears of the peasant
pioneer, who looked upon the former
car as his little father" incapable
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that all Russia's troubles began with
the downfall of Nicholas.
In their efforts to avert a rising
tide of counter sentiment, the leaders
have resorted to stringent methods
Siberia, the last great food reserve
has been stripped of grain and manu-
| featured goods captured after the
Kolchak debacle. Supplies have beer
transferred to relieve Moscow ever
to the point of placing the Siberian
population in need.
Drought Retarda Crops.
| The rich black soil in southern Rus
| STA is said this year to have produced
less than half a crop because OF
drought. The Don coal basins are pro-
ducing little, despite Denikine's rout
necessitating that railroads and in
dusrries. excepting in the small dis
tricts of Siberia, depend upon wood
1
draining the food stocks, while every
where women, girls and boys are re-
placing men at all forms of labor.
The spectacle of stringency is com
plete with hundreds of dormant fac
tory stacks, from the small districts
larger industrial centers of the Urals
to the great manufacturing district OF
Moscow, standing as monuments to an
| industrial structure bearing all the
| appearances of having broken down
l Observers on the TRANSMISSION jour-
ney commented on the aspect of the
situation in view of a statement
credited to Leon. Trotsky. minister of
! war, in addressing the seventh con-
vention of all-Russian commissars
Trotsky was quoted as saying that
the bolshevik working armies, -
heralded as units which would re-
| build Russia's industrial life, had
| failed where skilled labor was need
| ed, their usefulness being limited to
the rougher forms of labor, such as
cleaning cities and keeping up the
| railway right of ways.
&. The output of the few factories
! which are working is absorbed by
! the army. leaving nothing. it is de-
! clared, to exchange with the agricul-
| tural population for their products
| The plan for such exchange. handled
j by. the. government, is declared to
have been a basic point in the boil
| shevik program.
Paper Money n Menace.
| Continued requisition of grain and
| live stock in return for alleged worth
| less paper money instead of supplies
| is said to have made the agricul-
tural population the greatest poten-
tial enemy of bolshevism. Observers
say that if this condition is not rem
edied it promises to cause the ulti-
mate downfall of the regime despite
it's militaristic control.
| AS a result of the deluge of paper
money throughout Russia and ST.
| IBERIA, a system of barter, which is
carried on Illegally, is the only means
of exchange. Small quantities Of food
supplies compensate for the shortage
| in government rations and the ine-
quality in their distribution.
| Greater success seems to have at
tended reorganization of the railroad
passenger traffic, than any other
branch of the industrial life. From
j Verkhne- Udinsk. the capital of the
bolshevikfs far eastern buf1er state
| a traveller can ride into MOSCOW Oh
Petrograd in ten days. travelling from
Omsk on Russian Pullmans if he is
| on business or is especially priv.
legged.
trip across Russia is 1900 rubles. The
| sum is less than one american collar
hut also is less than the amount need
ed at scores of transsiberian stations
| to buv a pound of meat or salt from
| the peasants who sell food at the rail.
The brightest spot in the whole
picture of bolsheNik Russia is rep.
resented in attempts everywhere to
| emnhasize education. Efforts are be-
ing made to establish reading rooms
and schools for both civilians and sol
diers and to care for children during
| the food crisis.
| Much of the instruction naturally
includes teaching of the doctrine OF
| communism through dictatorship OF
the proletariat, world revolution ane
class war Russian opponents to boil
shevism, however, declare that, in the
face of actualities, such instruction
serves only to convince the people
more thoroughly of the impossibility
of realizing their needs through
methods such as they are now under
| going under dictatorship.
COL. MCDANIEL CHANGED.
Lieut. Col. William A. Mcdaniel. in
| IA ntry has been relieved from duty In