Show l U caY caYON Rf I ON N IA I I RI N f fI I TR TEO I Intrigue rie Spreads ads Thirst for Wholesale Exec Executions Executions' t ons' ons of Members Members Members Members' Mem Mem- bers bers' of the Duma By William G. G Shepherd United Press Staff Correspondent Copyrighted l 1917 by the United Press Q f Sept 21 Rus Russia Rus- Rus sia has reached the reign of terror tei period Today roday the cry is for blood for blood for wholes wholesale le members is in Inthe the Petrograd council workmen ot and soldiers are demanding the lives lI of ot former Foreign Secretary Paul Paul N N. N.- N. M 1 Michael hael president r of ot the duma and twenty other duma members Nothing con could Id more moie strikingly show the horrible distortion of or mental perspective perspective per per- developed by German propaganda ganda of Incalculable strength than I. I this growth of the guillotine spirit In Russia Russia- The Bolshevik i are pacifists they demand universal brotherhood and an end to I Killing I Ilin g. g To insure this they demand executions execution Germanys Germany's propaganda propaganda- more than Germanys Germany's armies menaces menacE'S the life of Russian 1 democracy today oday The Intrigue is reaching even Into the winter palace palace- to attempt Premier Premier Premier Pre Pre- mier KerensKy's life It tempted te K Korniloff to revolt lIt It is Is spreading unbelievably scandalous i stories stories' of Russia's great leaders leade to j create dissension in the new racy lacy moc I It ha had succeeded In befuddling the Russian Hussian public almost to the point of hop hopelessness when I to left-to the point where the Insane cry is for Cor blood Russia's armies annies are holding at bay ninety an and a R half divisions of German troops men while men while Germany concentrates concentratE'S on her intrigue Russian BussIan arm army officers are keeping together enough h of or then their forces to stop the Ger Ger- Continued on page 11 BLOOD CRY IN RUSSIA Continued from page 1 man war war 1 machine They heroes are super super- At home Premier Kerensky I Js is an open target for a concentrated campaign campaign cam- cam 5 Is ot of f malignant scandal scan scan- dal intrigue and even attempted as assassination as- as I German intrigue In n Petrograd stops at nothing It fostered p. p mysterious story recently that the premier was a a. morphine fiend having contracted the habit following an operation a year ago Another lie which the kaisers kaiser's agents industriously circulated was wag that Kerensky had divorced his wife and married an actress Utterly untrue these Sc scandalous Insinuations found some ome credence One small newspaper even published them Kerensky's latest picture showed him standing with his cotton gloved hand Napoleon like on his chest No sooner had these ben put on sale than the Ule city was permeated with angry whisperings about Kerensky the dictator dictator dic German agents unceasingly whispered playing on the distorted psychological bent of the tense RussIan Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian mind Kerensky's picture vaguely vague vague- i ly Iy suggested Napoleon Therefore Kerensky KeI Ke Ke- I was a new Napoleon a dictator Not alone did the tho German agents at attack attack at- at tack Kerensky by word of ot mouth they even sought his life The Winter palace a dreadful 1 memory memory memory mem mem- ory of the old autocratic days is today a gruesome place of death and tragedy and mystery Its lower wInd windows W arenow are arenow arenow now all blown out Lower rooms close to where Kerensky works were charr charred 1 In a mysterious fire two twp weeks ago O. O At the time when Korniloff was marching on Petrograd German agents spread the report that the British government government government gov gov- favored his revolution and tho the pulling down of Kerensky How well they did their work is indicated in the fact that the British government actually actually ac ac- ac- ac sent a guard of sixty soldiers to the embassy fearing possible attacks by Russians enraged at the thought that Kerensky was menaced The arm of the German secret servIce service ice even reached out to Russian grand army headquarters General Korniloff himself was deluded into the belief that all the allied ambassadors would favor his Ills revolutionary move That belief was in no small measure responsible for his open rebellion and Korniloff's bitter enmity toward Germany Is known to every Russian A week after AlexIeff was appointed commander in chief of Russia's armies when Kerensky felt Korniloff was sUpping slipping slip sUp ping in his allegiance Korniloff re refused refused re- re fused to relinquish his command and carried carried- out a brilliant but small advance advance advance ad ad- ad- ad vance of his Russian troops toward Riga With Korniloff a prisoner Kerensky now faces a trying ng question of what I to do with with- him Tha The premier ia ls s either unwilling or un unable ble to subject the tl fo former former for for- mer commander In chief to the Reath death penalty Apparently capital punishment in inthe inthe the whole army has been abolished Premier Kerensky finds It Impossible further to carry out his policy of Iron Ironhanded Ironhanded ironhanded handed discipline In the army CapItal Capital Cap Cap- ital punishment has again been put in lQ the hands of tre soldiers' soldiers committees and that means Its total abolition I Kerensky's bravery bra and idealism in inthe inthe inthe the face of unparalleled criticism slander slander slander der and attacks on his life is unquestioned s- s But his surrender of concessions concessions concessions conces- conces conces conces- to the the Bolshevik the fanatical extremist group who at any time may start an armed demonstration In favor tavor of peace peace peace-Is Is Injuring the progress of the war |