BOLSHEVISM

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 36, 13 February 1919, Page 6

BOLSHEVISM

WELTER OF BLOOD AND

DIRT

A REMARKABLE LETTER

DESTRUCTION OF ENLIGHTEN

MENT IN RUSSIA.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTMOHT.J (RIOTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Received February 13, B a.m;)

LONDON, 11th February,

A striking denunciation of Bolshevism has been published in the shape of a letter- written by the ex-Lab6urite member for Stoke-on-Trent, Colonel John Ward, from Omsk to ifche Trades Unionist leader, Mr. Appleton, dated 29th November. Colonel Ward states: "For the love of Allah, let us never more talk of the glories of revolution. I am in it here. A friend strikes down him he thinks his foe, and finds the dead man is his brother.. Princes and peasants, plutocrats and workmen, rich and poor, ' go down together in a welter of blood and dirt. Bolshevism thinks nothing of shooting SOO social revolutionists before breakfast, because of a petty difference of opinion as to whether a railway should be national or communal.

"How any of our Labour leaders have failed to grasp the Bolshevik creed of blood, and have presumed to condone the , horrors committed by this mob of fanatical maniacs, I cannot imagine. I have been in Ekaterinburg and have seen Cossacks pulling lumps of wood out of the well where the Tsar was imprisoned, with ah occasional Grandduke mixed up with the timber. Then another piece of flesh, recognised as a Grandduchess, then Others as-workmen and workwomen —all murdered and mutilated just to prove love of humanity."

Colonel Ward continues:. "I believe it was necessary to destroy the old regime and to execute the Tsar and his minions; but these swine whojn we call Bolsheviks are mere bloodthirsty cut-throats, who murder for the love of murder. Their regime has destroyed more peasants'.and poor people in a year than the Tsars did in a hundred. War is horrible; but revolution is hellish.

"Another surprising similarity! between Tsarism and Bolshevism is that both try to destroy the intellectual elements in their country.. They have made a regular onslaught upon all the edu'ca- s taonal institutions.. Young school-boys have sometimes been lined up and shot in hundreds. .In one batch the oldest v<a_ sixteen. It appears thai'German agents told the ignorant Russian workman that the only way he can keep the country in his own hands is to destroy the educated man. This is' being thoroughly done wherever Bolshevism rules. The German idea is that if every intellectual man and boy is killed, the conquest, of Russia by German kultur is certain." .-.,.!'■'"■'