TERRORS OF PETROGRAD.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16584, 25 July 1919, Page 7

TERRORS OF PETROGRAD.

WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS. LONDON June 30. The correspondent of "The Times" at Helsingfors telegraphs:—TVliilo despairing of help from the Allies, the remnants of the starving civilians in Petrograd are suffering a further increase in pitiless terrorism. Nobody speaks, in the streets, tlio trains, or in public places. _ Informers are everywhere. Tlio silent dwellings are allowed only one entrance, at which a sentry is posted, who asks the visitor his business and demands his identity papers. If his replies are unsatisfactory the visitor is thrown into a fortress, usually without trial, and shot. Single and double executions have been abandoned, and prisoners are now mown down with machine-guns and the bodies thrown into the> Neva. The Bolsheviks have arrested "the entire foreign population of tho city, including women, and confiscated their property. Preparations for the evacuation of Potrograd, in view of the probable surrender of the city, are complete. All stores, munitions, and portions of factory machinery have been removed, and the Commissaries sleep in trains roadv for instant flight. Young conscript peasants have largely desertod the army, and have formed numerous brigand bands. These retaliate on the Bolsheviks by cutting off their food supplies.