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Show Dutch Minister Tells of Terrible Conditions in Country. execute royal ones ! Reign of Terror Exists I in Bolshevik-Con-.trolled Districts. STOCKHOLM, Dec. 7. On the pretext pre-text of having discovered a counterrevolutionary counter-revolutionary plot, the terrorist commission com-mission at Mohllev sentenced fourteen persons to death, according to a Petro-grad Petro-grad dispatch. .Among those sentenced sen-tenced were Prince Erlstoff, who was executed with his two sisters, and the Prince and Princess Sviatopolk-MIr-sky. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 7 The Dutch minister at Pctrograd who has arrived in Holland by way of Germany, spoke freely on his arrival of the conditions brought about by Bolshevism In Russia Rus-sia and appealed to the workmen of all nations against Bolshevik tenden- cies. The minister characterized Bolshevism Bolshe-vism as "the end of civilization." Translated into practice, he declared the Bolshevik principles "are high wages for no work, the taking of other's property without punishment and taxation." "The state of unemployment in Pctrograd Pct-rograd Is terrible," the minister said. "The slatuatlon is one of utter exhaustion. exhaus-tion. The people do not know how they will exist from day to day. I never dreamt of such corruption and tyranny and the absence of all semblance sem-blance of freedom. "The situation Is one of utter exhaus-One exhaus-One thing is certain and that is If she is left as she Is now Russia will be completely and utterly ruined." |