RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RED TERROR ATROCITIES, GRUESOME BARBBARITIES. VICTIMS iBECOME INSANE, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 30, 8.15 p.m. Warsaw, Sept. 30. Evidence is accumulating of appalling atrocities by the fied Terror at Kieff, thousands of bodies, the result of murders, being found, chiefly in cellars. The members of the Bolshevik Council sat daily. On one side was a great wooden cage with wooden bars, and the accused were paraded on the other side for sentence. They were then stripped naked and carried to the slaughterhouse. Others were flogged. One Sister of Mercy, who sheltered a fugitive, was violated. The Morning Post's correspondent narrates an even more horrible barbarity —the so-called confinement torture—the underlying idea being to imprison the victim with dead and mutilated bodies. The confinement torture sometimes took the form of shutting up the prisoners in a slaughter-house where the window and walls were broken with bullets and the floors still covered with blood and fragcents of bodies, despite the use of chloride of lime. Later this was judged insufficient, and the prisoners were chained up, twenty-four at a time, for ninety-six hours in actual coffins with the men and women they had seen lulled. Thirty cases of insanity resulted. At Kieff, many bodies were flung into the anatomical rooms of the Kieff university, where boys used to pull themselves up to the windows to gloat over the gruesomeness. Thus a handful of alien commissioners kept 200,000 people in Kieff under subjection for seven months.—Aus. N.Z. Ca'ble Assoc. AMERICA REFUSES TO JOIN BLOCKADE. A CONVENIENT EXCUSE.

(Received Sept. 30, 8.40 p.m. Paris, Sept, 30. It is understood that the American peace delegation has refused to join the pacific blockade against Soviet Russia now being maintained by British and French warships, on the ground that it is against the traditional policy of America.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. CONVOCATION OF NATIONAL CONGRESS. GERMANS ORGANISE REVOLUTION IN POLAND. Received Sept. 30, 9.45 p.m. London, Sept. 29. According to an Omsk message General Koltchak has instructed the Premier to take steps to convoke, at the earliest moment, a National Congress. A communication from a Polish source states that the Russian Bolshevik Government agreed with the Germans to organise a revolution in Poland. The notorious agitator Sobelson has gone to Russia from Berlin for that purpose. —Reuter.