“TERROR LOOSED AGAIN”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 12

“TERROR LOOSED AGAIN”

SOVIET RUSSIA FIVE PEOPLE SHOT EVERY DAY LONDON, Eel). 6. “Rus.-ia, is on ilm verge of tho most terrible economic chaos! ‘I he I'enoi is loosed again.” Alexander Kerensky, the man who ruled Russia, for two months in 1917. and was forced to fly the country bv Lenin’s (fmn d’etat of November 8 in that year, made, the assertion quoted above m a. tint in Nl. dames’ yesterday. His eyes, heavily lidded like an eagle's, shone with his emotions. His hands, always restless, opened and : sluil as he spoke. Gradually his voice rose. He was once more the fiery Socialist, orator of the last: elected Duma. “ALWAYS CIVIL WAR.” "It is not true,” h<r proceeded, “that the population is passive under the Bolshevik Government. Remember that. Make a (mint of that. If is not, true. There is always civil war between the peasants and the Government.—and 90 per <ent. of the. Russian people are peasants. And another thing most important to remendror—there is this year a complete teversion to absolute militant Communism. The policy of the past few years lias gone. “Why? Ah! 1 will tell you. Thu Bolsheviks have exhausted the. accumulated wealth of the towns. There is none left. And now they are turning to the. peasants, who love their land, and they are saying, ‘Non must, give up your land and your livestock. You must become units in our vast- communal farms. The result An increase, of the civil war. frequent incendiarism, the. slaughter of livestock. Thu peasant I will not surrender. ( RED ARMY MURDERS. ‘T have just had secret advice from tlm Amur region that a punitive expedition of the Red Army lias shot 150 men in one small village. “And do you know how many people are killed every day in Russia for contraGovernment activities? Listen! Five, people, every day— -1800 every year. “So the peasants are destroying their l farms and slaughtering their beasts, and they then go to the Bolsheviks and say:! ‘We have nothing. Keep us. But 'us, on your dole.’ And tlm Bolsheviks have nothing: uhtli which to support them. There, will soon he an insur- , leelioli of the peasants, for I see a, famine coming wmse than that under j Lenin’s rule, tvliiih destroyed 5,000.000 people. And then—who knows?— a, * dictatorship merging info democratic government. , “Thai is wlial the people want—-a Republic, with representatives elected, hv secret ballot, a. president, also elected, and complete religious and civil liberty. A moimrehv? No. never! There will U> no more Czars, no more nobles. j ‘ But there is a. hell corning for Russia, before her salvation. And with each 1 revulsion of the people from this (cranny. 1 the tyranny becomes mine and more; severe. It is a government now of sheer j desperation.”