Wholesale Murder in Russia.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 12 September 1918, Page 3

Wholesale Murder in Russia.

SOVIET BLOOD LUST. ALLIED SUBJECTS CONDEMNED TO DEATH. Reoeivedl this day, 9 a.m. New York, September 11. Mr Soger Simons, Ajnerican Trade Commissioner, cables an acount of his experiences in [Russia to the (New York World through Mi - Arno Dosch-Fleurot, the World's correspondent, who hai- just arrived at Stockholm from Petrograd and! Moscow. He says: "I have just escaped from Russia after three weeks' imprisonment in Moscow. There was no accusation against me. I was starving to death and the guards told me I was condemned to death. J3y bribing a guard who communicated with the American and Swedish Consuls my ei-cape was made possible." "While in prison I taJkedi with, dozens of men condemned to deaitih they, knew not why. Many of them were taken out and did not return. I.saw men ordei'cd to be shot for criticising the Bolshevik Commissioner." Mr Simons ivivs arrested at Vologda by order of the Bolshevik Commissioner Kedroff.' "Just before my arrest Kedroff ordered the working men and peasants to kill every American, Englishman and Frenchman found in the Wilidte Sea region. My arrest followed. I was j kept in a railway prison car and from | there I saw 400 Kronstad sailors mutiny when offered a ration of a quarter of a pound of bread daily. Two | were shot dead,'." Mr Simons says that while in the prison oar he destroyed Fleurot's despatches which the latter had given him to send from Finland. "While the guard watched I managed to chew and. tear the despatch, until it was unrecognisable. The despatch. criticised the Bolsheviks and if found; would have caused my death)." Mr Simons was later removed to Moscow and lodged in a prfeon fortress. "I spolke with scores of fellow prisoners. most of whom were condemned to death. They had not been tried by jury and were brought before a Bolshevik tribune who in a few minutes sentencedi the victims.

CZBOHO-SLOVAK SUOCU3SS. j 'Received this 'day, 10.30 a.m. London,, September 11. Telegraphic communication has been, opened between VI a d ivy stock and Omsk, indicating that the Czechoslovaks and Allies control the entire distance.