BELA KUN’S BUTCHERS.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 September 1919, Page 2

BELA KUN’S BUTCHERS.

SY.\"l‘l‘l.\l.\'.l‘l(7 'l‘ol\"l‘l’Rl.\'G. l.(,).\*DOl\', Aug. 12. I?.eutor'.< (‘0l“.'(":~']>UIlLT(Tl1t at Budapest I'opCl‘f;~,‘ than x'vill;;'l~u political lo:xder;s are h:'.S!'vlxin«_»' lnxrli lo I-lllllg'm'y. Slx:ls:llinnui :~"«()I'l(‘s Hf the In:tlt’l'(‘:ltnwiit of tlio }_:<»lx"g(mi.x‘i(- under the Bela K:_;n roginw .<llowt7iatlnrlllre chambers \'-«me .‘lrt«.\<l up in the vaults of the Parliament buildings. The ‘f:.-.~.'ullri‘re.‘ nwtliod Cl?" torture was to show lhu vivtim;< (lisnwnib-Jrod part-u.; oi’ u'l)o(1y. like zlrins, lugs, 110.<('>5, and g_x-us, and OlT('l'(‘d‘ thorn n Clrzuwv of suvillg their lives it’ the}.»' collfo.<.-ed or paid largo .\'llm.\'. The L-.orp.~'os of the murrloroll. were colioclul at night ‘time am-l thrown into the Danube. heavily waitml with stones. The torturers were :u'r(‘s’tod, and con. fcssed their crimes. One hunchback admitted that he had been instrumental in killing over 500 people. Another man had a. number of bl-c.nk execution warrants for pr~lii'i:t-s*‘ t<ll<poots.