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Show WHOLESALE MASSACRE OF INTELLECTUALS IN PROGRESS IN RUSSIA Germans Use Bolsheviki as Tools to Blot Out Constructive Forces in Hope of Gripping Nation for Future Exploitation. ,: By DR. DAVID SOSKICE, Former Petrograd Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian and Private Secretary t n A lexa nder F. Kerensk v. LONDON, Nov. 2-1. News which I have received from Moscow and other parts of Russia dominated by tho Germans and Bolsheviki shows that western Russia is In a state of latent revolta revolt of a people prompted by starvation on the one hand and red terror on the other. Eye-witnesses who have escaped the horrors describe to me how the "intelll-gentla" "intelll-gentla" are being1 gradually exterminated, exterminat-ed, numerous victims falling' daily, either from famine or the bullets and bayonets of their oppressors. I liavo before me a letter from Christi-ania, Christi-ania, saying, in part: "A Russian family has arrived today from Petrograd In an absolutely inde-1 inde-1 scribable condition. In Petrograd the Bolsheviki have begun to massacre all . the 'intelligcntia' (educated classes), the former officers with. special barbarity. Massacre Wholesale by Bolsheviki, "Every night a cannonade goes on in all parts of the city; rifles and machine guns are at work. Tho 'intelligentia' are seized and driven en masse to Kronstadt, and it is unknown what late befalls them there." Fnr the, laT severi'I Tenths IJie. whole, oi Russia, has been in a .-..a. to of perpetual revolt, Imt It is tho revolt of desperate, disorganized and disarmed masses against the mightiest and most perfidious power In tho world against Germp.ny.' Germany, not by force of arms, but through Bolshevik treachery, means to stay in Russia. Having ascertained that sho cannot retain the country either by arms or the establishment of friendly relations, re-lations, she uses her Bolshevik tools in a policy of unprecedented destruction. The policy consists in destroying all the living forces of Russia, Industrial as well as intellectual. By ruining Russia's Industries In-dustries and exterminating her educated classes, her experts and organizers, Germany Ger-many hopes to reap all the advantages of being her next door neighbor after the war. j Her calculation is that Russia, deprived perhaps for a generation of her own in-dustries in-dustries and experts, and separated from the other industrial countries by thousands thou-sands of .miles, will become Germany's undisputed prey and market. The Bolsheviki, Bolshe-viki, who are destitute of any sort of constructive con-structive ideas, are tools admirably adapted adapt-ed for the execution of Germany's destructive destruc-tive designs and her schemes are laid before them by German agents who work In their ranks. Would Cripple Nation for Benefit of Huns. Never will Russians worthy of the name forget the perfidy, the crimes and sufferings suffer-ings which the German rulers by their deliberate and cold-blooded methods have inflicted upon their country. The revolt of the people of western Russia against the Germans and Bolshevik instruments is not one that can be suppressed. It is nourished by hatred and despair and is of the nature of an irrepressible guerilla warare the only kind of warfare which a distracted nation can wage against her ruthless oppressors. Realize Day of s Power Is Waning. 1 By Universal Service. ; WAUlNGTt N, Nov. 24. Overnight advices on the economic and military situation in Russia have encouraged officials offi-cials to believe that the American and allied forces operating toward Moscow as a common meeting place are not endangered endan-gered by the apparent military domination domina-tion of tle Bolshevist red guards. ' In the minds of many in Washington the terrible excesses of the armed mobs of Petrograd in fhe past week are the last flames from tho conflagration which burst forth when the Bolshevists realized that their cause was lost and that the (Continued on Page Two.) IMESfflflE WHOLEGALE (Continued from Page One ) peasantry of Russia had at last awakened to the true conditions under which Russia withdrew from- the great war. A prominent official said today: "The wholesale slaughter of Russian army officers and others who were aligned with nobles of Russia gives proof that the Bolshevists realized that their day of power is waning and that they must stop not even at terrorism if they are to retain the power over the nation s finances they now hold." It is pointed out here that the present Internal struggle in Russia is a result of the deplorable slate into which the economic eco-nomic machinery of the nation has fallen. Since Russia made peace under pressure with the central powers, her markets have been dominated by German merchants, mer-chants, who sought by every means to pour Into the country the products of German factories made during the first two years of the war. Hoped to Drain Russia of Gold. The German merchants held forth the hope to the people that all would be well within a short time; that the German arms would be victorious and that Russia should want for nothing which would aid in her rehabilitation. It has been patent I thitt Germany hoped to drain Russia ot ! what gold reserves might be still availa-' availa-' ble, for the neutrals of north Europe were insisting thai by gold alone could Germany Ger-many hope to gain raw materials fpr her continuance of the war. Now that Germany is faced with the problem of restoring her Industrial strength, her Interest in Russia has suddenly sud-denly lapsed and her merchant leaders are said to have refused flatly to indorse expenditures in Russia for the purpose of extending trade in that section. The United States, on the other hand, is closelv following the policy laid down by President Wilson when he advised the soviet councils of Russia that the United States would support Russia In her efforts at rehabilitation. . It has always been the thought of President Wilson that the United States could have prevented the defection of Russia had the proper assistance assist-ance been given to her people by various organizations. The organizations in question, however, were not in a position to supply the necessary assistance. United States Not to Relax Its Efforts. The efforts of the United States to gain foreign trade in Siberia and build up the ' business centers through development of I the country's natural resources have been I in no way lessened by the signing of the I armistice and the approach of peace. Agents are being recruited in the United i States by tiie war trade board for the purpose of making further reports and investigations along the line undertaken i bv the commercial delegation sent with j the American troops to Siberia. There is 1 every reason to believe, according to ad-. ad-. vices received by commercial leaders ; here, tiiat the United States and .lapan ' can bring about the resumption of law and order throughout Siberia. The suc-i suc-i cess of their plans will naturally tend to i h df''t;-iie'iin of the Bolshevist power in Russia proper. In me meantime, great secrecy is maintained relativo to the movements of the American and allied forces, which, starting from the Murmansk coast and Vladivostok, seek to join forces at Moscow. |
