The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-06-09

article who loves country and desire
to see the perpetuity of its govern
ment maintained that orderly am
peaceful reconstruction may follow
The author Of the article went wit
the deportcd Bolshevists and radical
in the eArc" to Finland; thence +
Russia, and his statements are alb
solutely devoured from the usual pre-
cautions of the. LeRine government
to let nothing go opt of Russia whicl
is unfavorable to the present regime
See what Bolshevism has brought I,
Russia.
Reval, Esthonia, June 81 hav
Just returned after more than tire
weeks in Bolshcvik Russia.
! have seen the real Russia-no
the Russia shown by the Soviet of
ficials in personally conducted tour
for correspondents.
No other newspaperman without {
permit has crossed the Rolshevik from
tier, reached Moscow and returned.
Russia in 1920 Is a land of hor-
ror Undesirable.
The people are slowly starving
to death. Gaunt, apathetic fig
ures stalk the streets.
The army is in rags. Its equip
ment is worn out.
The early ardor of the Red re-
volution is gone and Bolsheyism.
if not crumbling, is slowly decay
ing.
| spent a week in the capital, Mos
COW, another week in the Pshov regiol
and three days in o Moscow prisol
dungeon, to which ! was sentenced b,
the extraordinary commission TO
suppression of counter revolution, be
cause | had crossed the guarded Boil
shevik front without permit an,
made my way into the interior in dis
regard Of the flat orders Of the Mos
COW government that no more "bourg
eoise9 journalists would be admitted
The rest of the time / was travel
ing about visiting, In ALI five prov
incos: petrograd, Pshov, Tver, Nov
gorod and Moscow.
My only instructicns were to "Te
the truth about Russia in 192O.'
came with perfectly open mind.
travelled about Russia ION my own,
conducting my own investigation an
talking to the Russian people with
out the interference Of any govern
ment guide or interpreter. aske
the Soviet government for no assist
ance, no favors.
Bolshevism T. failing, not be-
cause of the counter revolutionary
activities of the bourgcoise. but
because the workers and peasants
are starving. Because cholera,
typhus and all the other plaques
of famine and want are increas-
ing.
| interviewed many alleged CON
munists. Some of them admitted tn
game was up. One man, who said a
least he was communist, remark
ed:
THE BOlsheyists are good des-
troyers but poor builders"
OF 100000 registered communist
100 900 arc believed to be sincere an
the rest simply registered in orde
to draw the workers food rations.
1t Is impossible to live and renal
healthy, even as a government work
err on 5000 rubles month with brea
at 500 rubbles pound. The dali
ration of half pound Of bread an
pint of thin cabbage or fish soup
totally insufficient. | have eaten i
Soviet kitchens and ! know.
Moscow city is horror. True,
few thoaters are open, but no restaur
ants are open, Correspondents, VIII
have sent back dispatches telling O
Moscow restaurants were received
They were taken to certain com
munist clubs which were rspresente,
by Bolshevist officials to be publ
restaurants.
Few trolley cars are running. 0nl,
the government has automobiles. Tn,
big stores and shops are all closed
There is enc train daily be-
tween Moscow and Petrograd.
Railroads are utterly dem0raIized
and permits to travel by rail are
almost impossible to obtain.
1t is illegal to deal in food an,
people everywhere are hegging bread
Moscow residents are trading furni
ture, pictures, pianos, elathing any
thing they have. to peasants TO
food.
Al the station in Moscow | saw
crowds Of children. men and
women, eagerly picking up bread
scraps thrown from a Red Cross