SOME RUSSIAN HATRED.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 September 1918, Page 6

SOME RUSSIAN HATRED.

L MIRBACH M9TKSKD TO IT. STOCKHOLM, July 9. Scenes of the-most stirring character took place in the Pan-Soviet Congress at Moscow which opened on July 3 and has just adjourned. The news, whlcn was suppressed by the Bolsheviks and German censorships, has been brought here by the Swedish boat from Petrograd, which had on board Russian newspapers giving detailed accounts of a dramatic meeting of the Congress.

M. Alexandroff, who greeted the Congress in the name of the Soviet of Ukrainian Peasants, spoke of the Bolshevik Government, which tolerates the presence of the representative of German imperialism, Mirbach, within

its capital.” Two hundred and fifty delegates of the Left here rose and cheered wildly while Count Mirbach and his suite, occupying a box, sat stiffly in their seats. “Imprisonments and executions without trial are now the rule in the Ukraine,” continued M. Alexandroff. * ‘These measures are used by Germans in order to suppress the revolt of the Ukrainian workmen and peasants, but we know how to fight even if you don’t and we shall continue to fight.

The Germans have come to the Uk- ! xaine to obtain bread. They won’t get it. Peasants are refusing to surrender bread, and wherever the Germans succeed In loading trains, we are blowing them up. We have blown up all the artillery magazines in the Ukraine. The Germans sought to transfer immense quantities of aviation machinery from Odessa and Nikolaiefi to the Krupp works. We blew it up. “The Germans will be wiped out in the Ukraine. They have already paid a thousand lives for their tryanny. I desire to inform you, in the name of the workmen and peasants of the Ukraine, that the whole of the Ukraine is now in a state revolt against the Austro-Gcrman yoke. You have concluded the Brest Litovsk peace at the price of the Ukraine’s liberty. I now call on you to aid us in our fight.” Here the delegates of the Left, the Bight and the Minimalists peace, crying “Down with the B'rest peace.” “We firmly believe you will com© to our aid,” continued M. Alesandroff, 4 ‘You will not deny us arms and will not wait until Count Mrbach permits

you to do so.’ ’ At this point Count Mirbach showed signs of excitement. He turned to a German officer near him and whispered something. The Left delegates, again rising, shouted, “Down with Mirbach! ,> "Down with, the Brest peacel’ “Down with the lackeys of Mirbach, the Bolsheviks!” The chairman, M. Sverdloff, succeeded in restoring order with great difficulty. M. Trotsky rose to announce that the Government would oppose the efforts of certain Red Guard regiments in undertaking an offensive against the Germans on. the Kursk front without orders from Moscow. He also defended the official of the “death penalty,” The Left delegates shouted demands for repeal of the death penalty, and their leader, M. Kamkoff, rose and shouted at M. Trotsky. “Kerensky!”M. Trotsky: Kerensky did the will will of the workers.

M. Kamkoff: You' lie! You are doing the will of Mirbach. You and your gang are Russia’s new hangmen. M. Kamkoff was called to speak after M. Trotsky. He declared that the surrender of the Black Sea xleet was virtual treason an agent provocateur’s trick on the part of the Bolsheviks.

“As far as Trotsky’s protest concerning independent action by Red Guards is concerned, they are acting under the impulse of a genuine revolutionary spirit. They refuse to witness the choking of our Ukrainian comrades by German Impcralists. Turning to Count Mirbach s box, M. Kamkoff, continued: “Revoltionary Russia and the Ukraine can no longer remain inactive when these contemptible butchers and despots who have had the nerve to come here as guests

are strangling our brothers in the ■Ukraine.”

The speakers’ words roused an excited demonstration against Count Mirbach on the part of the Opposition and the entire audience. The public galleries were filled with cries of “'Away with these robbers” “Throw them out!”

M. Sverdloff again succeeded in restoring order, and Mr. Kamkoff concluded by saying that the iLeft would continue, to fan the anti-German revolt in the Ukraine and Russia, Tie proposed the sending of a telegram to all the Russian detachments fighting bn the borders of the Ukraine, likewise to, the General Staff of the revolutionary Ukrainian troops, urging them to keep up the fight and promising them aid in men and arms. The Bolsh“Mks voted dow" the motion. , whereupon all the delegates of the Left rose and left the theatre, singing the “Internationale” and shouting: “Hurrah for the revolt in [Ukraine I” “Away with Mirbach!”

“Away with the ueatli penalty: “Down with the- Bolsheviks!” So they went home. Three days later they killed Count Mirbach,

The Petrograd Nash Viek reports that the Germans fire pouring rein-

forcements into the Ukraine, and that the German force there now consists of the 35 divisions. The peasants arc acting in small armies of 15.000 to 20,000 men, well armed with machine

guns and artillery . They are defending the villages by methods of regular warfare, surrounding such places with troops.