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 Rh Mr. Libby obtained his information from Arthur J. Watts, an English Friend, who has been engaged in relief work in Russia. Mr. Watts gave Mr. Libby a translation of the reports of Russian commissars from various cities.

For all this the Bolshevists are largely—though, of course, not wholly—responsible. Whatever the degree of their responsibility may be, it is an outrageous falsehood to talk of great educational advances under such conditions which are admitted as being far worse than anything Russia has hitherto experienced.

Yet the Soviets have never ceased to put forth inflated and grandiose paper schemes as if certain of accomplish-