The Facts about the Bolsheviks. By C. E. B. (Macmillan.
2d.)—The facts given in this pamphlet are stated to be compiled from the accounts of trustworthy eyewitnesses, and " as far as possible the Bolsheviks' official Press and publications." Tin evidence confirms the reports that have so repeatedly come through as to the tyranny of Bolshevik rule. The Bolsheviks control the Press, manipulate the elections, prohibit meetings when they think fit, and when resistance is made employ force in some form or other. The most potent of its forms are the dreaded Red Guard and, human nature being what it is, the withholding of food cards. Though bitterly opposed to the Bolshevik principles, men declare themselves Bolsheviks " rather than condemn their families and themselves to death by starva- tion." Industry is paralysed, education at a standstill, and the land is being neglected while the peasants fight among them- selves. The real power of the Bolsheviks, judged by numbers, cannot be ascertained owing to the intimidation that rules -everywhere, but, says the pamphlet, a significant hint was given in the " Pravda of March 1st of this year." " It was discovered that in a sailors' battalion, reputed the most Bolshevik of all Russians, there were only four declared Bolsheviks and one hundred sympathizers' ! "
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