Bearing in mind that the sole aim of the people of Jaroslav--led by Socialist workmen--was to establish their own local self-government, the inviolability of the Soviet elections, let us examine a few of the many reports concerning the struggle published in the official Bolshevist organs. Under the caption “Official Bulletin,” _Izvestia_ published, on July 21, 1918, this item: At Jaroslav the adversary, gripped in the iron ring of our troops, has tried to enter into negotiations. _The reply has been given under the form of redoubled artillery fire._ Four days later, on July 25th, _Izvestia_ published a military proclamation addressed to the inhabitants of Jaroslav, from which the following passage is taken: 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._ On the day following, July 26th, _Izvestia_ published an article to the effect that “after minute questionings and full inquiry” a special commission of inquiry appointed to investigate the Jaroslav insurrection had listed three hundred and fifty persons as having “taken an active part in the insurrection and had relations with the Czechoslovaks,” and that the commissioners had ordered the whole three hundred and fifty to be shot. Throughout the summer the struggle went on, and in the _Severnaya Communa_, September 10, 1918, the following despatch from Jaroslav was published: JAROSLAV, _9th September_.--In the whole of the Jaroslav government a strict registration of the bourgeoisie and its partizans has been organized. Manifestly anti-Soviet elements are being shot; suspected persons are interned in concentration camps; non-working sections of the population are subjected to forced labor. Here is further evidence, from official Bolshevist sources, that when the Soviet elections went against them the Bolshevist Government simply dissolved the offending Soviets. Here are two despatches from _Izvestia_, from the issues of July 28 and August 3, 1918, respectively: KAZAN, _July 26th_.--_As the important offices in the Soviet were occupied by Socialists-Revolutionists of the Left, the Extraordinary Commission has dissolved the Provisional Soviet. The governmental power is now represented by a Revolutionary Committee._ KAZAN, _August 1st_.--The state of mind of the workmen is revolutionary. _If the Mensheviki dare to carry on their propaganda death menaces them._