The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
ANARCHISM IS0N
WAY IN RUSSIA
AS SOVIETSFAID
Diplomatic Observer, Back
From Investigation, Sees
Chaos Coming.
THEN A REGENERATION
Production Has Stopped and
Thousands Are Almost Sure
to Die in Winter.
THEN A REGENERATION.

Special Cable Despatch II THE HERALD.
Copyright, 1920, By THE New YORK HERALD
LONDON, Oct. 9.-"After Bolshevism,
anarchy-utter anarchy-and nothing
else" was the way a trained diplo-
matte observer outlined Russia's future
to the correspondent here of THE HER
AID to-day. He had been in Russia for
six months, disguised as a workman.
investigating conditions and framing
report to his Government. which IS
"one of the most advanced" in vest
ern Europe.
Then, little by little, Russia will be
regenerated on a reconstruction of So
ciety," Nhe continued. This will not
be process for a day, but for
decade-perhaps longer. And Bolshe-
vism is now near its end"
The report of this diplomatist has al
ready had a notable effect on the
framing of the policy of that advanced"
Government with which he is connected.
Indeed, there is evidence here that 1t
is having even further effect, for tho
roposed trade agreement between the
British Government and the Russian
sion here has been held up mystic
| riously.
Why British Held Up Treaty.
The holding up Of this agreement is
coincident with reports that not only
| will the disturbances within Russia most
seriously affect the Bolshevist armies
facing the Poles and Gen. Baron Peter
! Wrangel, but Bolshevist gold has been
| ba he on nd ~
OF purity when delivered, and that there
| Is no guarantee for the delivery of even
| this gold.
The informant of THE HERALD corre-
| spondent had no delusions regarding a
Russian panacea. He assessed the mill
tary efforts of the Poles and of Gen.
Wrangel against the Bolsheviki as worth
| nothing.
"A historic picture OF a retreat from
Moscow was painted a hundred and
eight years ago." he said. why re-
peat it?'
But he was perfectly definite about
| collapse OF the present Bolshevist regime
being imminent, although he admitted
his own predisposition in favor of some
| system of Communism when he went
into Russia.
THE Russians have been living on
capital accumulated through centuries"
tai Is approaching an end. Then. when
they reach an end of II, they are through.
Eight thousand pairs of boots were man
ufactured in Petrograd last summer.
What is that in the face OF population
OF 100000?
Thousands Doomed This Winter.
Last winter almost every wooden
house in Russian cites was torn down
FOR ftrnI q rn
wooden houses there this year. This
means that thousands of persons VIII
die Of the cold. Russian workers have
stopped producing"
When asked why the Russians had
stopped producing. the observer de-
clared:
'All incentive to produce, except to
save themselves individually from star
| walton, IS gone. The Soviet authorities
| themselves recognize this"
He produced from his pocketbook a
| slip of paper on which was an order for
the delivery TO him of two pounds or
bread. THAT was my wage-a very
large extra wage-for working May
| Day." he said.
In these circumstances quite naturally
this observer interprets recent reports
OF mutinies In the Bolshevist armies and
Industrial riots in the Russian cities as
cracking the last vestige OF Soviet power.
And he stated plainly that the Soviet
was the last vestige Of any power In
Russia.
He placed no faith in any White"
schemes asserting that the peasant
workers had lost faith in everything
except Themselves He said he foresaw
a condition In which every little natural
1 community .rauId rr,ttIfafa al ntfufHA
Interference. boarding its own primitive
r. sources and defending them.
Under such a state OF affairs. nat
urally, only the strongest could sur
i've" he continued. Gradually they
viii work out their own minute organi-
zation OF life in their own petty circle.
IS II spreads, constant with others
aolecule by molocule-there Will come
the reincarnation OF the spirit OF work
and OF rewards commensurate with the
value OF the work done
ut Is a historic process-the prehis-
toric process OF the ages IL will be a
'cng agony for Russia, but II is the only
theory which fits in with the hard facts
; q the Russian situation"
Meanwhile NilSolai Lenine. Bolshevist
. Premier, Is making a desperate effort
to so on with his world revolution in
an effort TO bolster UP what appears 10
be his falling star of destiny.
/, Sylvia Pankhurst Is back in Londoa
with full instructions from Lcnine on
how the Communist labor bodies In
Great Britain, by lawful or other
means may qualify for membership In
the Third (Moscow) Intcrnationale
Leonid Krasslne. head OF the Bolshevist
mission 60 London. has been endowed
with all the necessary political power
10 conclude trade agreement with the
British. one OF the conditions TO which
each side Is to agree being TO cease all
efforts 60 undermine the others system
OF government.
No better illustration Of Lcnine's con-
cepts could be drawn than that con-
tained IN this condition Both an
nouncements appeared IN the same edi-
lions OF London newspapers this week.