THE RED TERROR AT KIEFF.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1919, Page 7

THE RED TERROR AT KIEFF.

—— ■' ■ STORIES OF APPALLING ATROCITIES j j EVIDENCE OF GHOULISH". WORK ; - r By Telerrt-nli-Treaf AcfnfiMifm-OapyrlirM j (Roc. September 30, 8.50 p.m.) Warsaw, September 29. ; Evidence is accumulating of appalling atrocities which were perpetrated (luring j the Red Terror in Kieff. ' Thousands, of bodies of murdered people., iue being .: found, chieflv in cellars. Membfrs of the j Bolshevik Council Hat daily on one eido of a groat wooden cage, with wooden liars. The accused were paraded oil tho other side for sentence. They were then , •Gripped JiaM and carried to the slaughterhouse. Others were Hogged. One Sis- ' tor of Mercy wlio sheltered a fugitive was , violated. . , ■ Tlie "Morning Post" correspondent nnrrate! even more horrible barlwity—tho so-called "confinement torture. Tho undeilying idea was to imprison a victim j with dead and mutilated bodies M™firiement torture" sometimes took the. form of shutting up prisoners in tins. Slaughterhouse, where the windows wer« , broken with bullets. The floors are still j covered with tho blood and fraemcnta . ■ of the bodies, despito the use of chloride of lime. Later this was judged to no • insufficient, and the nrisoners were chain- ■ i ed up. twentv-four at a time, for 90 hours j in actual coffins with Hie men and woman . > they had seen killed.,. Thirty case9*flf >; insanity resulted in Kieff. Many of tna bodies wore Hung into tho anatomical ; rooms at the Kieff University, where boy# , j used to pull themselves up.to tho windows , • in order to gloat over the gruesome horrors. Thus » handful of nl««i -omnus- j sinners kept 200,000 peop!o in Kieff und«r' subjection, for seven months—Aus.-N.4. , ; Cable Assn. ' \ > THE PACIFIC BLOCKADE, OF THE REDS I V . . (Bee, September 29, 7.50 p.m.) • Y '1 Paris, September 29, j ,It is understood .that the American Peace Delegation has refused to, 30111 in , ; the pacific blockade against Soviet Russia no>v l>einfr maintained by British flttd French warships—ou the ground that • 1 ifc is against the traditional policy Ot America .-Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. ■ - ~ ,■ ; KOLCHAK CONVENES NATIONAL . CONGRESS (Eec. September. 30, 0.25 p.m,) London,' September 29. 5 According to au Omsk message, Kqlehak has 'instructed tho Premier to take : stops to/ convoke at tlio earliest tf na' tional' congress.—Au6.-N.55. Cable Assn.