What the Soviet has Done A number of Russian Socialist, and Democratic leaders who' fled from the country to escape the Soviet's persecution are now publishing a newspaper, the "Volja Rossic®"' ("Will of Russia') at Prague. In its issue of November 6 last appears the following article on the effects of Bolshevism:
The Bolsheviks promised bread, peace and Socialism. Three years have gone. What have they given? Famine, war and despotism, Russia is a country of death. It perishes. The mortality was in 1911, 21 per mille, last year it was 75 per mille. The number of births decreased. from 29 to 13 per mille. In Moscow there die monthly 5,000 children from want of nourishment. The weakened population becomes victims of illness and epidemic. Last year in Petrograd 242,115 people were attacked by typhus.
In Russia is famine. The people in the cities receive every day a quarter Russian pound "of bread mixed with straw. A' horrible winter threatens the towns and villages. There is no fuel; there are no products, no shoes, no clothing. A habit costs in Moscow 250,- 000 roubles. In the towns five persons must share one pair of shoes, in the villages generally nothing is given.
_War Wirnour Enp.
The war is without end. The mobilization is permanent. Millions of people are armed. An inhuman discipline is established. Every kind of Liberty is crushed. There are only Government newspapers. There is no right of. meeting, no liberty for striking. Lenin's motto is, The personal dictature is necessary." The Bolsheviks have announced "AN power belongs to the Soviets."
The new bureaucracy has put the people in irons. Terror is raging. The prisons are overflowing. 145,000 persons were confined last year; in the two last months 18,000. The whole of Russia is in the power of itshajka" (the extraordinary court of justice). The country is overflowing with blood. In three months of 1919, 13,850 persons were shot; in August this year 1,083. The labourers' organizations are dissolved, Out of nine millions of Russian proletarians only 1,960,000 have remained. Work is militarized. Industry is destroyed and production has sunk totally. Against the peasants punitive expeditions are sent which suppress in a cruel way the peasant revolutions and require their provisions. The land question is not settled. Such a dreadful set of conditions has Bolshevism introduced in three years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.