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Show PETROGRAD HUNDREDS IBEJLIIII Russ Capital Menaced by Flames; Wholesale Murders by Bolshevik Leaders Are Reported. Reign of Terror Spreading; Spread-ing; Moscow Is Also Scene of Frightful Excesses Ex-cesses by the Soviets. WASHINGTON, Sept- 11. American troops have licded at Archangel to assist the other allied forces there in their campaign to re-establish order in northern Bus-sia. Bus-sia. This movoinnt wis authorized author-ized tonight by General March, chief of staff. AVASUlXliTOX. ?ept. 11 A ai?paUh from ll'.? American legation al Christi-ania Christi-ania tcx:.-) va,d -e lia IjI infarma-liati had rea'hrd tiro That I'ctm-i-a j iraj hurnirig in twelve rinTcrent rle and that there naa imll'-Timmaie maasacre of people in the streets. Hundreds are reported slain. Secretary LanMnir. in announcing; the receipt or tlie message, said it did not indicate whether the rrasacre was organised or-ganised or merely was a resuit of a jren- erl state of anarchy. Titere iraa nothing noth-ing to show what part the Bolshevik authorities au-thorities were playinir in the situation. REIGN OF TERROR AND BLOODSHED STILL UNABATED STOCKHOLM. Tuesday. Sept. 10. i By the Associated Pre.-sL July and August were months of honor which never will be forsotten by persons who watched Russia's two great cities Fetrograd and Moscow pass through the mad attempt of the Bolsheviki to shoot or imprison all persons who disagreed with their wiW efforts to control crumbling European Russia. September probably will be worse, for the opposition parties arc gaining strength through desperation. The lives of the non-Bolshevifci are unsafe, and everywhere in Russia self-defense self-defense is forcing unwilling belligerents to take up arms against the ruthless persecution per-secution of the so-called commissions for the suppression of a counter-revolution which shoot down the bourgeoisie by the hundreds. Ieon Trotsky, the BoUhevik minister of war, evidently is determined that his dictatorship of the proletariat will not repeat the history of the former " provisional pro-visional government and fail through being be-ing too merciful. No Quarter Is Given. Ex-Premier Kerensky refused to impose im-pose the death penalty and his government govern-ment was almost without the loss of a life, but observers of the Russian political polit-ical situation say that no such bloodless end came to the soviet republic. It has given no quarter and it will receive none. Premier Ienine. War Minister Trotzky, S'verdloff, president of the central executive exec-utive committee, and o tlier Bolshevik leaders realize this and they doubtless will fight as long- as a single soldier remains re-mains loyal to them. Trotzky has said in ids speeches that Moscow will be reduced to ashes before it is surrendered. Yarosla v, a town on the Volga, TOO miles northeast of Moscow, was burned for resisting Bolshevik! domination, dom-ination, and Vologda, 110 miles south or Yarosla v. is reported to have suffered the same fate. Night has been hideous in Moscow for months because of the volleys from execution exe-cution squads in the military enclosures where prisoners are kept. Foreigners and Russians alike were searciied without warrants and the red guards marched crowds of men and women prisoners through the streets with such regularity that pedestrians hardly noticed them. 1 Terror Hardly Begun. Marie Spiridonova. a social -revolutionary leader, charged in her memorable speech made beioro the. all-Russian soviet' congress at A'oscuw on July 4. that the ! Bols-heiiki were nmre tyrannical than the (Continued on Pae Tour.) ' FIRE SWEEPING OVER PETRDGRAD (Continued from Pago One.) lute omperor, and the reln of terror had only boh'uu at t hut I Ima 1 r. Karl 1 IHrforlcli, tho (Jurman ain-bdsHiidor ain-bdsHiidor at Moscow, rushed back to Hcr-lin Hcr-lin and rfiportcd to his government that Mo.st'ow was In audi a ntHte of anarchy tliut tlie embassy could not stay thfre, (ind Ik n ullfKed to have advised a discontinuance dis-continuance of diplomatic relations with the soviet powfir.j There in littln ' wonder that Ambassador Ambassa-dor Hel fferlch had such an I nip rebut on. Two attempts were made on his life while h was in Moscow. (This is Die first news to come out of Russia of nn attempt bcinf? made against the life of the nw Ornian em-bassador em-bassador ut Moscow. J I is predecessor, t.'nunt Mlrbach, was assassinated.) Shots we re hoard every w here In the day and ntfiht, and motor lornes, filled with armed soldiers. tlftshed madly through tho streets with utter disregard Tor tlie life of civilians. The actual finM-inff finM-inff which took place fn the streets of Moscow on July 7 when the city waJi under artillery fire for several hours wuj far less terrifying to the public than were the endless days of sheer brutality when the soldiers imrosed upon the-he) pics public by virtue of their arm. Arrests by Wholesale. Men who hav refused to ficht' the f'recho-Slovsks on the Voltfa have been arrestei. The helpless and paralytic and the old women, more than eijhiy ye-n old, have been twken into custody. hi uc h is the wild campaign r-arrlryl on by the Idshevikl under the Kulse of sup-pteswini? sup-pteswini? a counter-revolution. Moses I rllzky, who nierciles!v directed activity ac-tivity of this wort in f'etroKrad. paid for it with his life, but Itierirhinsky mil ctJiitlnues his frantic persecution of civilians civil-ians In Moscow. Former rrnv officers Hre the Kreute.it sufferers at the hands of this wild search for counter-revolutionists, but it extends to all ectlon of the bour-Keo:me. bour-Keo:me. .Nut content with selzinc the property of the educated cluwes. the IViisheviki are now haraftflin ihem in every puwiittle way. A hruiai clujig war Is encouraged tiy exhortations daily in ihe HoUh"Vlkl newspaper news-paper to continue ttucka ur-on the bour-jrtisle bour-jrtisle and fvn to t.tke th-lr lively lJul bad aii conduions ar- now l n Mm-cow Mm-cow and In Ivtroiri1. a woree situation U rxp-e,t ,y thf mteilUmt rLv-s If an interregnum takrs pi . The spirit of vrriK-iiM' I ft o :ron and If" f-el-inx bilti-r SKklnat the Jewish leaira. arrlva 'n here from Hu:a ay. I'-at riot-ins riot-ins A(.ilnM the Jews Kenerudy U feared. 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