RUSSIAN MIX-UP
IN UPPER SILESIA. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Reuter’s Telegram.; 'Received this dav at iOIIS a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20 Apparently the Supreme Council has not adopted the recommendations of the Allies Military Mission to Upper Silesia, which were in favour of Allied troops occupying the region. It is now semi-offieially ’stated in Berlin that a German police force under Allied supervision, will be formed in East Prussia for t.he period of the plebiscite, and there will be no foreign occupation, so long as order is preserved. A PROFESSOR’S TALE'. CRriceived- This Dav at 11.20. a.m.) STOCKHOLM, September 21. Professor Guido Schneider has arrived from ‘Riga. He states the Bolshevists abet 13,632 men, women, and children in Riga, in a short period. The victims were stripped, and dragged over tile snow covered, bloodsoaked prison yard. The executioners were intoxicated and were unable to aim properly and hit the legs and stomach of the victims, laughing at their agonies, which sometimes lasted all day and all night. Elegantly dressed girls voluntarily act,ed as executioners.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1919, Page 3
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172RUSSIAN MIX-UP Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1919, Page 3
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