Russian Diplomacy. and Red Army Facts Told Moscow, Feb, 17.
The press here was silent to-day concerning the arrival in Rome of Feodor Butenko, former Soviet Charge D'Affaires in Bucharest, who disappeared mysteriously some' days The Press Bureau here stated today that the report published in the [Htallan paper, "Giornale d'talla," concerning M, Bulenko's appearance in Rome, was false as he was actually kidnapped or murdered by the 'Toarist' Russia Pratsed Rome, Feb, 11.
"Bolshevism instituted In' the Russian countryside is the most terble slavery ever known to human-'This statement was made here today by M. Feodor Butenko, former Soviet Charge d'Affaires in' Buchai est, who was declared missing for some time before he appeared in Italy yesterday.
"Tam happy to be alive and unde: the protection of the Italian ties." M, Butenko added, spor Perfect" French, but looking deathly pale, He confirmed that his wife and daughter, were still in Leningrad.
'M, Butenko refused to state how he came here from Bucharest, but well-informed circles understand he crossed the Yugoslavian border at Postumia on February 11 with a false passport and immediately left for Milan where he reported to the police who then summoned from Bucharest a member of the Italian Legation there who knows M. Butenko and who identined him.
'According to an unconfirmed' port, Count Galeazzo Ciano, the elian Foreign Minister, received him yesterday morning, In a long article published in the "Giornale d'Ttalla" to-day, Bulenko eulogized Tsarist Rusti attacked the Soviet rexime—Hayas M, Butenko Interviewed Agure, He Is kept only because there fx nobody else," declared M, Butenko to a correspondent of the "Voelkis+ cher Beobachter" which also pubished a photo showing M. Butenko whose identity with the vanished Charge d'Affaires has been doubted In a Moscow statement yesterday, He had hidden four, days" Bucharest, M. Butenko laid, because he had first to find means for leaving the country and had chosen Italy one of the few countries where could feel safe from persecutions Bolshevism, 'M, Butenko describes the condltions in the Soviet diplomacy, All representatives wore watched by the Ogpu. The Ambassadors and Isters, Messrs. Bogomolov, Karachun, Yureneff, Bernin, Krestinski, and Litvinovs first secretary, '3M, Hi chelmann, had been shot, M. Butenko stated, The Minister in Prague, M. Alexandrovski, was likewise 16 be taken to Moscow to be shot but M. Budenko said the plan was abandoned in view the close Soviet relations with Mf, Butenko is very sceptical garding the Red Army. The great masses and even a part of the workfers had an aversion to military service but about 2,000,000 to 3,000,000, men equipped with all modern arms were reliable, he declared—Trans-
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