The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-12-12
B9BLIITT PICTURES
SOVIET menace TO
.gHRIgT|.!|ANNATION'S:i
EYEWITNESS Of Savage Actiyl.
ties Of Russians Tells
Of Experiences.

Homer q. Boblitt. who Travelled
nth American troops to Russia
where he was located eleven
months In close touch with the
Boisheyist situation soon after
that nation withdrew from the al.
lied contest, spoke at the high
school auditorium last might
upon the subject, Under the
Northern Lights"
MI. Boblitt began his address
EAby RiSturing something of the
Jphft ~ to Russia, and OF the
sort g men who made up the ex.
peditionary force. The camp they
eventually settled In was on the
wilma River, near Archangel
North Russia, he said.
Iththisa introduction he told Of
setng the huge German high
seas fleet OF the coast Of Scot.
land which he said, was sunk
! g year later, because It had failed
70 WIN the war. The vast feet
was sent to the bottom OF the
sea, 70 join the ships OF the
united States and other allied
nations which are being scrapped
presumably, because they won the
ne pictured the northern lights
which he termed probably the
sight In all the world las the
fingers of flame dance the dance
Of death in the sky, while all
around Is perpetual silence" M,
Russian peasants, he said
stu pillow their lands with d
wooden plow, SOW the grains by
hand. broadcast, reap them with
q sickle, tlail the grain out upon
the floor, then toss the straw into
the air to allow tina wind to carry
the char away. The grain II
then ground by, the women, he
added. who do most OF the work
there
MT: Boblitt said he found the
sussianG people simple, young In
piftt, young In accomplishment
End deyelop p1ent,5 and yet even
then In the grip of the monster
Which has already made itself
felt here-Bolsheyism..
he told OF seeing Bolshevist Of.
iicers put to- death by firing
SQUADS In Russia, and when they
were asked IL they wished to say
q prayer first, blasphemed and
said There Is no Cod"
Other Sofficera he said Worn
asked why such cruelties were
practiced in their war, and what
they were fighting for. "They an
sweYed, N said Mr.. Boblitt, I'VE
ate9 fighting to make the world
new again, without God In it;
without law, without govern
,hent; a place where men may live
J. and enjoy life to the fullest"
The speaker told, as an eye-wlt-
ness. of seeing allied officers kill
ed and their bodies mutilated, ma
tive men, women and children
. murdered and their bodies ter
fibIy dtsfgured, because they
were Christians.
One FAMILY especially, a doctor,
his wife, and an eighteen months
old child, was mentioned. This
doctor. was doing wonderful work
In the relieving Of suffering
\ among the wounded, Mr.. Boblitt
+ said, but while the division was
away for six days the Russian
army came into the village and
cut and hacked the doctor to
death, punched out the eyes of
tlie mother, tore her tongue out
by the roots, and horribly mutI-
leted her body with pIncers. The
Abe had its limbs and head torn
from the the trunk, and lay be-
side It's mother, he continued.
why did they do such things:
, Becapse these people dared 10
wear the red cross, the symbol Of
i Christian religion!" Mr.. Bob
lit declared. He then told how,
when Russian troops entered O
village the first thing they did
was to destroy completely the
church and all the equipment,
and religious furnishings OF the
homes. 1T was pointed out that
the full hatred Of the Bolshevtst
forces was always vented upon
things religious first of all.
AFTER eleven. months In Bloody
2ussia 4, Mr.. Boblitt said. land
liter returning to America and
Winding this dread influence al.
feady at work here, vowed to
Eight It until my last BREATH"
II have discovered, through the
death OF Russian officers, and
through observation In Russia"
he said, "that the great, under
elFing principle Of BolsheVism is
atheism. It Is the same in Russia,
England, Italy, Germany, France,
Or the United States"
He described something Of the
! awful suffering in Russia, espe-
daily Of the starvation there,
saying that 1t Is impossible to I'M
aglne its. extent. And why was
this sufFering2 he asked. He
then pointed out that 1t was not
because Russia had not the re
tources, for that country Is three
Times as large as the United
states, has the second largest
I SiI pool in the world, Is one OF
rho greatest graln:raislng coun-
iFies, has vast mineral resources,
and IS we'll able to support itself.
1.-THE Gear took twenty-five per
rent of all the people made. but
. he Bolshevists took 100 per
mt he said. Russia starved
fhs millions because the peo.
NE alt work, Just as this or any
other nation would Nstarye IL It
1uit work The population turn-
- IL llillnie M lnd Z law. and a.