Show ASKED TO TO- TO OUTLAW UNITED STATES WOULD MOVE TO PUT AN END TO RUSS TERRORISM c 1 T sf p In of Desire of Americans t to Help Help ft Russian Pe Peopled People the the Government Gov- Gov f Feels That Reign of 0 v T Terror Must Be Ended r Washington Horrified by liy the bloody r. r reign of terror terol In Russia Rusia th tha United Unite States has hus called upon SaIl sall all allied and und neutral nations t to co consider what they may do 10 to impress upon tho the Bolshevik th the thO aversion with which tho the civilized world worl regards g Ul their r wanton crimes B By direction n of President Wilson Secretary Lansing dispatched instructions to to- to every American diplomatic representative hi In the foreign ign capitals The action aligns the United State Stati 3 with of that of Great Britain and Franco France Francein in Ind declaring the Bolshevik responsible for the mUl murders cranes and excesses which have shocked the world outlaws and amI public enemies Whatever action ma may be decided upon b by the nations separately or in concert It Is made clear clem will apart from the pr prosecution tion of against Germany This is the text of of the tate d depart depar- par ments ment's Instructions to to the Ame American diplomats W I tI This government is ove in receipt of information in In- formation from flom reliable e sources revealing reveal reveal- ing lug that Ule peaceable Russian citizens of Moscow Io cO cOp p Petrograd nd and other clUes cities are suffering from lom an openly avowed ed campaign of marked terrorism and are aro subject to wholesale e executions s Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands of persons have been shot wIthout without without with wIth- out even eyen a form of trial ill ill-adminis l prisons are filled b beyond on capacity capacity capacity capa capa- city and e every efY night scores scores of RussIan Russian Rus Bus sIan stan sian citizens citizens- are are recklessly y put to to death and and- irresponsible bands are aro venting their brutal passions in In In- Inthe the daily massacres of untold Innocents In view of the earnest de desire desie jre of the tl people of the United States intes to befriend the Russian people and lend all possible possible possible pos pos- sible assistance In their struggle to reconstruct reconstruct re re- re- re construct t their nation upon principles of democracy anTI anil self government and In the interest interest interest inter inter- acting ng therefore solely est of the Russian people themselves this thI government feels that t t cannot be he silent or refrain from expressing Its horror at this state of terrorism Furthermore Furthermore Furthermore Fur Fur- it believes that In order to check the further Increase of th the thin thein in in indiScrimInate indiscriminate indiscriminate discriminate slaughter of Russian citizens citi- citi zens all civilized nations ns should regist regist register reg reg- ister r their abhorrence e of such barbar barbar- ism You will Inquire therefore whether the government to which you ou OU are accredited accredited ac ac- ac- ac credited ted will be jR ta take Immediate action which is entirely devoId devoid devoid de de- de- de void from the atmosphere of belligerency belligerency bellig bellig- and the time conduct of the war war- warto to Impress upon the perpetrators of these crimes the aversion with which civilization regards their present want wanton acts C J |