Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — SOVIET POGROM IS FEARED [ARTICLE]

SOVIET POGROM IS FEARED

Red Cross Man Says Soviet Russia Is on Last Legs. Washington, May 14. —The Russian bolshevik government as a “social adventure lias become a ghastly failure,” according to Col. Edward W. Kyan, Red Cross commissioner for north Russia and the Baltic states. Colonel Kyan is just back from a surreptitious visit into Russia with the Esthopian peace delegation, and his observations are contained in a report received by the state department. Russia cannot hold out six months, he said, without aid from abroad. “The country must either receive assistance from beyond the borders of Russia,” the report said, “or there will be chaos.” Both Moscow and Petrograd were “indescribably filthy in appearance,” Colonel Ryan said. The streets were at least ankle deep, in most places knee deep, in dirt. Only part of Moscow Js supplied with water, few electric lights were visible, and there was no coal and little wood, with the result that “everybody was cold,” he said.