KIEFF HORRORS
A CORRESPONDENT’S ACCOUNT. (By Electric Telegraph—Coovright.) [LONOON TIMES SEItVICT —COPYRIGHT) (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) LONDON, September 23. The “Times” correspondent describes Kieff as a city of horrors during the Bolshevik 200 days of occupation. They carried out hundreds of executions daily, fib© corpse being left lying in the streets till they reached a horrible state of putrefaction. One hundred corpses of prisoners locked in a small apartment were left to rot. The walls of a garage behind a gloomy tfree shaded house, was used as a p]nee of execution, were pitted by revol--ver bullets. The walls were also splashed with blood and the floor covered with thick glutinous ,blood. An English Governess living nearby was kept awake all night by the awful shrieks of the -victims. The executioners including a, •female, Rosa Schward, lived above the shambles. Their rooms were found to -be littered with playing cards, gramaphones and dog e ared novels.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1919, Page 3
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