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Show Defender of Bolsheviki Starts Near Riot in Probe Meeting Scotch Quaker Says Russ Reds Arc Laboring Toward an Ideal; Senators Wrathful at Witness's Testimony. F.y Universal fcVrvicc. WASHINGTON. ."March 5. -When Frank Kcd'lfo of Edinburgh, Scotland, undertook a defense of the Bolshevist government of Russia before the Overman subcommittee sub-committee of tho senate today, he nearly created a riot. Senators Overman, Nel- 1 son and Sterling, tho only members of 1 the committee present, were unable to, restrain their wrath over Kcddic's testl- i niony. j The witness confessed to being a "con- j scientions objector" who had escaped mil- I itniy service In Tond-.n on that plea;' he ahio tn ir i the committee he believed , in tho P ar-Mngs of the Society of Friends and had f.-u jn Russia fn charge of I orphanages o-'tabliMicd by that organi- j zafinn. ) Keddle said he v.ss, not a supporter of ! the present government of Lenino and Trotzky, but bt-lieved it was a ttep Jn the right direction. He declared himself i ippo:-.o(j to all (ire or violr-nro, and for that rra.'-nn eo;r not. i-upprt. the a n - 1 r.f the H"d Guard;.- nd others responsible f-.T the bl .Hsh"J and mnarros. I Working for an Ideal. "1 am not In favor of the present government," gov-ernment," he ?a id, "but I am in favor of what they are trying to dj. They are I working toward an idea I. I intend to go back and help them. What thr-y want a no what thy are striving f,r is ) er--ate a. condition of t-oeieiy whru the working man will have pnonrh Ifhuro to develop the : park of God that is within him lit'-rat ure. p-try, art, music and all the other things that aro now denii.J him." JdcHc raid, in answer to n. qust fori by Senator Overman, that he did not believe be-lieve the timo has come for a chango of this kind in the United Siaf-s, hut predicted pre-dicted tha t Knglaud. Franr-e, S'-.t land and other countries of Kurope will soon be In tho throes of revolut ion. I (c said this was ber-aiise- these countries w.i a nw rocial ordT. Protests Against Questioning. Senator Nelson thundered a numh'-r of questions at lite witness to find out what his views were in vliat Lenino and TroU-ky TroU-ky have done.. Kiddle evaded dirert reply. Several limorj he append for fair play and prnf-stcd against Hie manner man-ner in v hi'h quc- t.ioi,;! v.-'-re propounded to him. The v.i'ness st ;-o j i g ;, uigi-d the nitli-'draal nitli-'draal of the A nvri .') n and alln-d ron.M from K'is.-;:a. He said th'-y had Put one effect, to force many .Russians to join with the TJolsheviks who would otherwise (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) 1 BQLSHEVIKI DEFENDER STARTS fl IHH-1T (Continued from Page One.) have remained out of sympathy with them. He said: "The part played by the allied troops was not satisfactory from any point of view. I talked with British troops at Archangel and they said they did not enlist to fight the Bolsheviks and wanted to go home. The situation created by the Japanese troops there is very bad. I have been told by American officials In Siberia t hat the Japanese have been financing the Cossacks and continue to stir up trouble. I am against all revolution revo-lution and I urgi that all troops be withdrawn with-drawn from li-ussia." Miss Beatty Testifies. Miss Bessie Beatty, v ho went to Ru?-sie Ru?-sie in 1?U for a San Francisco newspaper news-paper and -who is now editor of McCall's Magazine, wan also a witness. She was asked about thR 'recent decree ordering the nationalization of women, and declared de-clared that the order had been misunderstood. misun-derstood. "All it meant was that the church and state were to be separated In regard to marriage." she said. "Under the czar there had to be both a civil and a religious relig-ious ceremony; the soviet decree merely ma kes the church ceremony optional." Kayrnond Koblns cf Chicago, who went to Ruspia for the American Red Cross, will be heard by the committee tomorrow. |