_The reply has been given
under the form of redoubled artillery fire._
_Izvestya_ published, on July 25th, a Bolshevist military proclamation
addressed to the inhabitants of Jaroslav concerning the insurrection which
originally arose from the suppression of the Soviet and other popular
assemblages:
The General Staff notifies to the population of Jaroslav that all
those who desire to live are invited to abandon the town in the
course of twenty-four hours and to meet near the America Bridge.
Those who remain will be treated as insurgents, _and no quarter
will be given to any one_. Heavy artillery fire and gas-bombs will
be used against them. _All those who remain will perish In the
ruins of the town with the insurrectionists, the traitors, and the
enemies of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolution._
Next day, July 26th, _Izvestya_ published the information that "after
minute questionings and full inquiry" a special commission appointed to
inquire into the events relating to the insurrection at Jaroslav had listed
350 persons as having "taken an active part in the insurrection and had
relations with the Czecho-Slovaks," and that by order of the commissioners
the whole band of 350 had been shot!
It is needless to multiply the illustrations of brutal oppression--of men
and women arrested and imprisoned for no other crime than that of engaging
in propaganda in favor of government by universal suffrage; of newspapers
confiscated and suppressed; of meetings banned and Soviets dissolved
because the members' "state of mind" did not please the Bolsheviki.
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