THE BOLSHEVIK SCOURGE.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 September 1919, Page 3

THE BOLSHEVIK SCOURGE.

CRLUES AT ODESSA. OVER 2000 MFXSSACRED LONDON, Sept. 8. Reutel"s e.ol'l-espondent at Odessa reports that General Soirnofi, of Port Arthur fame, was among the hostraées rescued when Odessa was -taken. The majority of the victims of the Bolsheviks were shot in the courtyard at hea.dqua.rters, in the’ garage nof Ville building, and in a labyrinth of cellars beneath the walls. The cellars were pitted with bullet. marks and bespattered with bloodstains. Hundreds of empty vodka bottles were found in one cellar, showing that the executioners had been drinking before they began their awful work. One open cellar, 20ft deep was overlooked by -a. window, from which the Bolsheviks fired with rifles at the packed mass of humanity below. The executioners arrested included several girls in their teens. The shooting was carried out regularly at 11 o’clock every night, and the number -of victims is estimated aft between 2000 and 3000.