BOLSHEVIK CRIMES
INCREDIBLE HUMAN BUTCHERY THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE SLAUGHTERED. By Telegraph— Press Association— Copyris s '! Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WARSAW, May 3. The inhabitants of Meswioz (Poland), on learning of the advance of the Polish army, incautiously celebrated their approaching deliverance. The Bolsheviks mercilessly suppressed the domonstraiTons, shot 50 people, burned many houses, and pursued the fugitives, who sought shelter at Slavkouo and Karzanoviteh. The Bolsheviks shot every
-nan in both villages and returned to , jfeswicz, where they condemned the entire population to death by starvaj tjon. 'they slew the children in the ideal Polish College, and bayoneted many farmers.
WARSAW, May 5. Refugees from Homol report a pogrom early in April. Refugees from Pinsk arrived in a train which bore a notice “Kill the Jews and Save Russia/’ The Armenian Red Guards took the notice literally and began a massacre. The Bolshevik newspapers say that 2500 people were killed, but the' escapees give estimates varying from 10,0 CO to 50,000.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10272, 6 May 1919, Page 6
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163BOLSHEVIK CRIMES New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10272, 6 May 1919, Page 6
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