New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1918, Page 15

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 OIN OUR CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB NOW $ .50 per week for 50 weeks totals § 25.00 plus interest 1.00 per week for 50 weeks totals 50.00 plus interest 2.00 per week for 50 weeks totals 100.00 plus interest 5.00 per week for 50 weeks totals 250.00 plus interest OURS is the ONLY CLUB in New Britain that pays INTEREST Assets 1,400,000.00 MERCIAL TRUST COMPANY 27% MAIN STRERET OPENS DECEMBER 21st OPEN SATURDAY AND MONDAY EVENINGS The CO Ilnon aim of opposition to the Soviets. cipline was maintained from the be- ;a distance of 600 kilometres and two | cording to the promises which hmll RUSSIAN LEADER ‘N U S TO‘ The peasants were not long in ginning, and with such supplies and | bridges, and further they held all tha | been made us, but we waited in vain, TRA[]E RE[AT"]NS L L 1 joining this democratic movement. | war mater as it was possible to | way up to Vladivostock. for no help came. And this is what | Tmpelled by famine and Bolshevist | gather this new army started its cam- | Colonel Lebedeff recited at con- | brings me to the United States J | terrorism, they flocked to the standard | paign against the Bolsheviki siderable length the support that the Soviets Have 150,000 Men. BEG A‘D FOR STRI 4 | raised by the workmen and the sail-| On the 15th of June, operating in | Russian Army received from the “The Soviets made two final e TU BE F[’STEREH = ors. The peasants responded particu- | conjunction with the Czecho-Slo- | people of the country through | forts to circumvent us. One was the larly in the governments of Mos- |vaks, it had taken the city of Strav-; which it operated. They came for- | conclusion of a treaty with Germany lution,” Catherine Breshkovskaya, in | ©%: Smolensk, Tambov, etc opol, and on the 17th Syzran fell be- | ward splendidly with contributions, [ which permitted the Bolsheviki to | e St At the same time the Unions of | fore it. so far as they were able, of all the | bring their forces from Ukraine and | . Col. Lebedeff Declares Bgl- jz‘f"";"‘f\."‘m:,"‘\“l::,'(:(’.:\" auc "S'””“C{skmn-- , which had been forced un-| The Czecho-Slovaks and the Army |army needed. In this connection it !the German border against us. This NallOHS BOI‘flGI‘lflg on P&ClfiG Plafl 1 | | | ! | | j | { . B : Opposed the Bolsheviki, der the Soviets to do so-called neu- | of the Russian People were acting in | should be borne in mind that they | augmented their forces on our front shevist Menace is Genuine = Ovposed the Bolsbevild, |~ tiral work, such as the policing and | accord with the Allies. To them had | had already been despoiled by the |to 150,000 men. According to tho Busi Uni e thaoy “”m;“_\v which was organ- | 8uarding of railroad property the | been given {he duty of re-establish- | Bolshevist — element Nevertheless, | second treaty, the German prisoners IIS]HGSS 11008 —Urges Help That Will ' {5 "0 1" oimn he the committes | A5eDalS, etc., began to show evidences | ing and holding the Allied fronts | the people of Kaazn contributed §,- |in Russia were ordered by the Ge | of the Constituent Assembly. It was | Of Oranization against the Bolsheviki. | along the Volga against Germany | 000,000 roubles to the support of the [ man government to enter the ran - Give Russia Chance. 25 o momber of {his ministry that he | The movement expressed itself in a |and Germany's agents, the Bolshe- | Army of the Russian People, and |of the Bolshevist Army since, as was | Honolulu, Nov. 29 (Correspondence reanized the detachments hnown as | SeTies of soldiers’ uprisings in Samara, | Viki. The committee of the Constit- | When the richer elements of the city | stated in the treaty, the Bolsheviki DN The Army of ihe . Rnesinn | People, | Saratov, and other cities, which were | Uent Assembly, after the taking of | Were appraised of this they came [were at war with France and Eng- | which has made such a notable stand | SuPPressed by the Bolsheviki only af- | Syzram, declared that it did not rec- | forward with 30,000,000 roubles. An- [land. This brought the Bolsheviki} “= - = W20 - Dl s mags anchianotabie s onl evntianubus et ognize the peace of Brest{Litovsk, | othfer instance of contribution was|Army a great many recruits friendship and better trade relationg mir I. Lebedeff of the Russian army. | iny in co-operation with the Czecho- Bolsheviki Quick to Act. and continuing efforts to strengthen | 1,500 horses fot the Russian artll-| “We held out as long as we could, | between the nations surrounding the tormer secretary of navy in Prince | Slovaks, the detachments of the Army The Bolsheviki were not slow to | {1¢ Army of the People, the Commit- These were brought together in | but without support from the out- | pacific ocean and to accomplish for of the Russian People fool Sysran, | adopt retaliatory measure against the | te¢ mobilized two Russian classes, the zan, and turned over in one night | side the time came when we had to 3 Smbirsk, Kazan, and other important | democratic coalition against them. | €N of 1897 and 1898. to (VUIOH('I Lebedeff. ~An interesting | give way. We had a huge front to gne of . the leaders of the party of j o 1 = . ' ™7 . an the forces un- | Their metfods were of extreme te As the numbers of the rmy of the | sidelight on the situation at Kazan is | protect, and we were getting no aid of The Associated Press.)—The ‘Pan- Pacific Union, organized to promote New York, Dec. 20.—Colonel Vlad- | Evorra and Kerensky's ecabinet, and |them what the Pan-American Union had done for the republics of the two American continents is laynig plans for the movement of the Rus zecho-Slovaks, sustaining Bolsheviki Russian forces had been led to expect, compelled revolutionary movement beginning Macedonia revolution decorated promoted to Russia and was Prince Lvoff's cabinet as secretary undertook measures | for establishing discipline in the Rus Bolshevist forces which Shortly after the cabinet government his program measures the cabinet, Colonel Tebedeff co-operated with the “Grandmother of the Russian Re\‘o-lthese organizations having the com- suppressed provisional immediate Bolshevism | of 800,000,000 roubles in gold, two- | thirds of the gold reserve of the old tussian Empire. This vast sum had Leen in the possession of the Bolshe- viki, and rt of this gold would have been transferred to Germany in accordance with the supplements to the Brest-Litovsk treaty. At the | same time these forces, under Colonel | Lebedeff. captured a large quantity | of silver, securities and othe val- | uables, all of which was forwarded by the Colonel to the Directorate of | Five, chosen at the Congress of Ufa, and sitting at Omsk Colonel Lebedeff was sent to thi country by the Congress of Ufa. Hi recent military experiences have been entirely on the Volga front, where month after month, waiting for aid from the Allies which failed to come, he and his forces struggled against uperior numbers, but were finally | compelled to retreat bafore the Bol- shevist menace. Colonel Tebedeff, in speaking of his experience today, dweit at length upon the unity in Russia of the forces op- posed to Bolshevism. The movement took definite shape in the month of April of this vear. Tt was started by the workmen of Petrograd, wing some 132,000 men These workmen protested against the Soviets, but in vain. They could get no recognition, and rapidly became subject to Soviet terrorism. Then a group of 100,000 of the Petrograd workers formed a local Workmen’s Conference, and de- manded the resignation of the Sov- iets, at the same time protesting against the peace of Brest-Litov At the same time a group of sailors from torpedo boat destrovers on the Neva at Petrograd joined the work- {men with similar demands, which | were in substance that power ha ven to the Constituent Assembly. Branching out, this movement next showed itself at Moscow, whither the Petrograd workmen sent delegates. At the capital of Old Russia a similar workman' organization was formed, and the same thing was Aone in munition, all protestants against their authority, Petrograd, Nizhni-Novgorod, witnessed scenes of the shooting down of the workkmen’s protestants against 3oishevist protestan composed Sermovo, this time workmen, According democracy a gave its force and its moral their hands ists-Revolutionists formally Bolshevism, Socialist-Populist Democrats party of Soci Democratic Russ Bolshevism, 1 was ready to act therefore Bolshevist there was at Orenburg. According to the Colonel, beginning and always has been composed very large- of mercenaries, this fact, the notable won by the detachments of the Army of the People over Bolsheviki. the eight of this Bolsheviki. movement port of them were the Social- ist-Revolutionists, the members Constituent the Soviets in exterminated he sets forth, the Army of the Russian People. Volunteers flocked to this force, and permanent organization completely beginning, Samara, Saratov, and elsewhere, all were made effective. Most strict dis- nition of war. Colonel Lebedeff say that they had nothing except what they took or captured from the Bol- task. On the 22nd of July, the Russian took the city of Simbirsk. FHere luck awaited them. Simbirsk was filled with ammunition factories. Colonel Lebedeff's forces got in Simbirsk could not get there any rifles, and the Russian People was still very seriously handicapped. jussia, was taken on August | sent’ to the Directorate of Five at Omsk In the meantime the detachments of the Army of the Russian People as growing numerically day by day Peasants were flocking to its ban ners, and the recruits came in_so fast that the need of rifles, cannon and serious. Ficree Fighting Continues, ments of the Russian Army were ovposed by forces numerically much greater than it could muster. For in- stance, at Simbirsk the Bolsheviki | of the Russian Army 1,600. The anti- had fto move simultaneously in var- sheviki at Kazan At the end of August. Colonel Lebedeff relates, the Russian Army and the Czecho-Slovaks held a front Kon the Volga from Kazan to Volsk, luring the thirty-four days the Army remained were constant the churches, sheviki. The lack of all kinds of mosuqes, praying for vic- war material was a most serious handicap, but, never faltering, this | organization stuck heroically to its gogues and Bolsheviki thousands of peasants were men flocked f the government of particularly "Tchistopol, Ourjoum, Army, sticking closely to the idea of its obligation to the Allies to en- large the fronts against Germany, Tzarievokzhaisk, Unfortunately cnough rifles to arm them. The work- enthusiastic. much clothes, artillery and large am- munition, but unfortunately they therefore the efforts of the Army of ammunition Bolsheviki themselves one hundred Kazan, one of the biggest cities of Here it was that the vast haul of gold came into the possession of the Army of te Russian People, and was three months this division Jolshevists } too great, the opinion that eventually the entire been wiped concentrated sishevism resulted in August seizing the evacuated expressed ‘ organization movement Novgorod machine guns became more and more they were feverishly constructing During all this fighting the detach- | thoroughly convinced | democracy was arrayed against them; s a growing determina- { numbered 8,000 and the detachments | tion to force the Soviets to relinquish Bolshevist detachments were small because under the circumstances they ious directions, There was about an | battalions equal proportion in favor of the Bol- | composed railroad workers brought from Mour- in leaving the Volga, the Iine that we had heen We awaited Allles ac- Socialists-Revolutionists has come 0 | gei Ctolonel Lebedeff took possession | rorism. Disposing of arms and am- | RUSsian People grew ,thers was an | found in the Colonel’s statement that | whatever from the Allies. This is increasinng lack of rifles and ammu- why we had to retreat. Tt is awful for me to think what must have happened to large numbers of the peasants who enlisted with us. At the hands of the Bolshevists they must have suffered a terrible fate. The fear of the Bolshevists was so great that when we left Fiazan 30,- 000 inhabitants of this city camoe away with us, and this same thing was repeated in other cities. Now ter- ror reigns in these districts, and the best of Russian democracy is threat- ened with extermination. “Therefore Russian democracy now comes forward to ask help from the United States against the new tyrants which are threatening its life and its soul. The Russian people have given all they could for the cause of Democracy and will continue to do so. If we have to retreat further from the Volga countless thousands of our supporters will be killed. The Bolshe- vist terrorism is beyond description, { and all the country is awaiting help from the hands of democratic Europe | aided by the democracy of America.’ Colonel Lebedeff laid special em- phasis on the anti-German feclings in Russia, and said that the anti- Bolshevist movement in Russia was inspired not only by the instinct for self-preservation, but also by feelings of antagonism toward Germany and loyalty to the Allied cause. CRIPPLED SOLDIER TO WED. Private i Bertram Wright to Wed Cecelia Fritzon. Private Alvin Bertram Wright, of North Andover, Mass, and Miss Cecella. Fritzon of 328 South N n Street, have been granted a marriage license. Private Wright was among the first of the American soldiers to see ac tive service in France and fook part in many of the big engagements of the war. He has a couple of service stripes and wound stripes and an empty trouser leg bears mute testi- mony to the sacrifice he has made for democracy. for a Pan-Pacific Congress of Cham- bers of Congress to be held in Hono- lulu in 1920. A Japanese trade eommission headed by R. Yamashina, vice-presi dent of the Tokio Chamber of Com- merce, which passed through here rc- cently for a tour of the United States tand South America, agreed to do everything possible during its travels to stimulate interest in the projected congress. Organizers of the Pan-Paclfic Union, prominent among whom are| its president, C. J. McCarthy, gover- nor of the Territory of Hawaii, and | Frank C. Atherton and Alexander) Hume Ford of Honolulu, hope in time to have the governments of the nations of the Pacific take over its ad- ministration. President Wilson has been inau-| gurated as honorary president of thel Union. A note of internationalism has been struck by the election alsol |as honorary presidents of Premier] William Hughes of Australia and Premier W. F. Massey of New| Zealand. Both have accepted and| signified their intention of promoting| the objects of the Union in all possible ways The president of China also hag been elected an honorary president and an emissary is now on the way to] Peking to engage his interest andj support. Prominent Japanese are co operating. Honorary vice presidents include Governor General Harrison of Philippines; the governor-general off Java, and John Barrett, director the Pan-American union. Mr. Ford is confident that evers nation bordering on the Pacific wil be represented at the congress here in 1920. The premiers of Australi and New Zealand have already promised to attend in person Support for the congress has beet pledged by the Seattle Chamber o Commerce and the International racific Chamrw. w Oomerce, th latter comprising commegziel bodie in the Pacific Northwest § X Britis Ceiumbia.