KHARKOFF TORTURE HOUSE.
TERRIBLE DISCLOSURES. VICTIMS OP BOLSHEVIKS. (By* Cable.—'Press Association.—.Copyright.) (Received 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 24. correspondent in South Russia gives an eye-witness' account of scenes in Kharkoff following the recapture of the town from the Bolsheviks. Tens of thousands of people crowded the vicinity of the five-storey torture house, th; various rooms of which were found literally crowded with corpses and bloodstained clothing. The walls were spattered with blood. All the victims had been tortured. A pit six feet deep close to the house contained forty bodies. Strips of skin were torn off some of these godies, others had nails driven into the heads and ribs. » In another pit fifteen bodies, including women, all bore terrible indications of torture. A man and a woman had been buried alive after their mouths had been filled with earth and their tongues jammed between their teeth. Terrible scenes of grief occurred as members of the crowd recognised their relatives among the victims. —(Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 5
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