A WELTER OF BLOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1919, Page 5

A WELTER OF BLOOD.

_..■ BOLSHEVISM DESCRIBED, .: VY; AN, ENGLISH EX-LABOMT&' '. London, Feb. 11. >i A striking denunciation of Bolshevisofl is published in the shape of a written by tiie cx-Laborite, Colonofl Ward, MX'., from Omsk, oa 29, to Mr Appleton, a trades' unionist,] The letter tuya: '".For the love ofj ' Allah never more tulk of the glorie*. of] revolution. 1 am in it here. A friend( strikes down him he thinks is hiSi foe and linda the dead man is lifar brother. Princes, peasants, plutocrats, workmen, rhh and poor go down to« gethor in a welter of blood and dirt 801-I shevisin thinks nothing of shooting SOD social revolutionists before breakfast, because of a petty difference of opinion whether a railway should be national or communal. How any of our Labor leadora failed to grasp the 'Bolshevik: creej of blood and presumed to condone- tbf, horrors committed by this mob of fan* lical maniacs I cannot imagine. "I have been at Ekaterinburg and SOSJk the Cossaoks pulling lumps of wood out of the well where the Czar was imprisoned with an occasional Grand Dukft mixed up with the timber, then another piece of flesh recognised as that of A : . Grand Duchess, and then others as th» workmen and workwomen were all nror'-' dcred and mutilated just to .prove the* love- of humanity. Colonel Ward continues: "I believe' it was necessary to spoil the old rigirao' and execute the Czar and his minions,•but these swine whom we call BolehSviks are mere bloodthirsty cut-throats who murder for the love pf< murder. Their rogimo has destroyed more peasants and poor people in a year than that of the Cicar in a hundred. Wtr is Bar* riblc, but revolution is hellish. Another surprising similarity bs< tween Cairism and Bolshevism is ths* both try to destroy the inteHeetorf elements of their country. They have made a singular onslaught on all tno educational institutions. Young schoolhoys have sometimes been lined up an! shot in hundreds in one batch; the/ohfr est was 10. "It appears that German agents h«y» told the ignorant Russian workmen th*t the only way he can keep the country in his own hands is to destroy the edu«< ted man. This is being thoroughly done wherever Bolshevism triumphs' The Ocrman idea is that if every intellectual man and boy is killed the conquest of Russia by German knlturc is certain."-* Router. [Colonel John Ward, who has represented the constituency of Stoke-o* Trent since 1008, first as a Labor menlH ber and now as a Coalition Liberal, is in Siberia with the 25th Middlose* Reg* ment. He worked on the Manftnestef, Ship Canal as a navvy, and in 188-5 volunteered for the Soudan campaign, for* which he was awarded the Queen's! medal and clasp and the Khedive's Sta*. ■RaTly hi the war he Taised five Labor 1 Bflftalirm>!, and became colonel of th» SHfli Middlesex. He is the organising secvetnry of the Navvies' Union, of which he was the founder. He was returned unopposed at the recent election,}