BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 June 1919, Page 2

BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES.

'TI‘_ZRHI.BLI‘; T:\l‘.E FRONE I’ER-M. ’.l‘elegra.rnS from Om;<l~; contain "details of revolting atmcities perpetrated by Bt‘.l'.Sll(‘\'ll{S during their Oticupation of l’er'n:. The garden ef the EeCltsi:lStl—cal College pre.<ente<l :1 terrible spectacle. Naked corpses, half busied in .~:n0w, lay about in all directions, eonvulsed in every attitude, all expressive of the greatest s‘u.fi"el'illg, with ht-.ln<ls ttiuds with cards ibehfxn-d the back, or crushed against the face, as though inVolmlt:lry warding 0!? furiou:: l:{‘,o\\“s, .~wi.‘tll ..~.‘ll:xttlel'e:cl ‘~.s.l{lrlLs and broken limbs, the whole ‘bathed ‘hr a sea of blood. Great coucourses of the people visitetl this terrible cemetery and mourned for their relatives and friellds who l:~zul been murdered’ by the Bolshevists. VOne of the must terrible r-uses: of cruelty w:l.~' the death of M. Tt'lll1)lk0lf. the director vet‘ a t?actox';.', who had both his le;:.~z cut off and was only «le~ sp:_lte.lled twenty-four lmurrs later. Eye\\‘itne.ss:e:< reecllnt lzuw the wretched 'n'.:m crawled about the gjrolmcl on his lnutrilated limbs, implurin;;' hi§ I'urtul'e'.'s to put llim_to <leath_ Another terrible inei-dent .oee.m're«l :1: a village, where -.1 prissoner Sentenced to death was ordered by the B<)l.<l:-e\*i;~:t.~"'to dig his own gl‘aVe. The unt'm'tun:lte man made the grave tco sllort, and. (nraged by his mistul-:e_. the Bolsllevist Connniss.:u'_\'. S(‘l7.lllg £lll axe. out oh’ the viet’im’s legrs go that the l;ml_'y n|i;:;ht {it tlze <g;“:lV'e.