"ONLY" 13,700 EXECUTIONS
("Times" Special Correspondent.; Helfinafors, February 19. Information reaches me from 8 rail that on Snltinlay last, during a so- i evet sitting of the Soviet, the Conuuis:' sinner of ihc Interior, Jl. Lissovssky, i/lv reporting on the effects of the civil w.#. declared" that up to .latiunvy 1 last flio number of persons shot by the onl'ierS of the Extraordinary Commission did' - exceed 13,7(H). No record had been fSjacj 1 ' of the numbers shot in the small towli's uiut villages, as the local authorities avoided - all bureaucratic methods and often acted on simple intuition. M, Lissovssky concluded:— 'With these figures - in our bands v are going to the Conference with the i pre.-xMitat.iveslif the Entente Governmca', and we shall show to the whole wi.\ ' that the eo-callcd Russian civil war 1. 1 cost many fewer human lives tluin 041 small battle in the Imperialistic ww,"
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 2
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148"ONLY" 13,700 EXECUTIONS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 2
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