PROPAGANDA IS WORSE THAN ARMIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14448, 7 November 1917, Page 3

PROPAGANDA IS WORSE THAN ARMIES.

RUSSIANS' MENTAL PERSPECTIVE

DISTORTED. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 21. Russia has reached the reign of ter ror period." To-day, the cry is forNblobdifor wholesale executions.

Bolsheviki members m the Petrograd Council of Workmen and Soldiers are demanding the lives of former Foreign Secretary Paul N. Miliukoff, Michael Rodzianko. president of the Duma., and 20 other Duma members.

Nothing could more strikingly show the horrible distortion of mental perspective developed by German propaganda of incalculable strength, than this growth of the guillotine spirit m Russia. The Bolsheviki are pacifists* they demand universal brotherhood and an end to killing. To ensure this they demand executions.

Germany's propaganda more than Ger many's armies menaces the life of Rus sian ; democracy to-day. \

The Teuton intrigue is reaching even into the Winter Palace to attempt Premier Kerensky's life. It tempted KomiJiff to revolt. -, It is spreading unbe> lievably. scandalous stories of Russias 1 great leaders, to create dissension m the new democracy. -7. V It had succeeded m befuddling the Russian public almost to the point of hopelessness when I lef fc— td the point where the insane cry is. for Mood. Russia's armies are holding I at bay ninety and a half divisions of German troops-*-1,357,000 men— while Germany concentrates on her intrigue. Russian army officers are keeping 'together enough of their forces to stop the German war machine. They are superheroes.

At home Premier Kerensky is an open target for a concentrated campaign of vilifioation, scandal, intrigue,' and even attempted assassination. . German intrigue m Petrograd stops at nothing. It fostered a mysterious story recently that the Premier was a* morhpine fiend, - having contracted the habit following an operation a year ago. Another lie which the Kaiser's agents industriously circulated was that Kerensky had divorced his wife and married an actress. Utterly untrue, these scandalous insinuations found some credence. One small newspaper even published them.