IKON FOLLOWED CZAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 5

IKON FOLLOWED CZAR.

-♦. ■ ■ SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY GONE WITH TEMPORAL. ,-. v SAN FRANCISCO, May 27. When 99 per. cent, of the < itussian populace took dp\rn the image" M the*. Czar, which hung below the ikon m every Russian home, symbolising with it the two authorities of Heaven and earth, their next question was, "Why not take down the ikon, tool" And l the ikon followed. Every sentblance of authority was. banhed. "Freedom, earth, ■] 'bread, and peace"— these things the Bolsheyiki promised, and the ; first promise has been grimly fulfilled, according to Miss Louisa Wale, ' daughter of an English. . manuj facturer, who is m San Francisco, after' a residence of eighteen years m Russia. "Russia is celebrating the reign of freedom In eyerything," said Misa Wale., "No ceremony is x'equired for a man is free to take the woman he likes and go aboxifc his business. .."• The. streets of Moscow are piled high.; with,, paper and! refuse sinae all authority is abandoned. "In the Redl Sqxiare, a landmark m Moscow, similar to' Union Square, 500 bodies were buried, last October af^er^ the claßh between the' Bbaheviki and" the student class. The coffins, 'were painted redi and! decorated- with . bright,, ribbons, and just outside trhe.,\ city-. thOj' dead of the opposing, class were interred with ?the solemn Marche -, J?unebrew" . The operations of .;• the Bolsheviki/ Miss Wale said, are m line with the,' policy, • of the I.W.W. m this country.' Ribhld threats - against property owners, • native and foreign, are made openly and blatantly;, v. .■;••■ -.'. .-•'..., : "' ■■'.•: Freedom to confiscate property and to violate houses accounts for the presence of Miss Wale and five other young Englishwomen m this ■' country. They left Moscow at the command of the^ British C»onsul, who ordered all English women a-ndl children out of the country. -^ The streets of Moscow are m darkness after 7 o'clock. The use' of lights after that hour entails a fine. The promise of bread, which- the iiconoclasts made, has been fulfilled witli something similar to .&■ stohe," v if. the sample m Miss Wale's possession is a fair example. "We need stronger propaganda m Russia. The secret of 'success m Russia is based upon her propaganda," Miss Wale said. "The tragedy of the whole thing is that the Russians have lost the feeling for their country, patriotism.', has-been strangled with blood, Miss Wale said, "and the people shrug ..their .shoulders and_ say, 'Why dw- not .the, Germans straighten things ; dut ;' they are strong.' "