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RUSSIAN HORRORS

STORIES BY FUGITIVES

PETROGRAD SAID TO BE

STARVING/*

GERMANS DIRECTING- THE .OUT-

RAGES.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received September 16, 8.30 N a-m.)

LONDON, 15tb September.

Fugitives arriving .in London tell sombre stories of the-horrors in Russia, and fully confirm the reports of constant butcheries, burnings, and shootings. Petrograd is starving like a beleaguered garrison, Bands of marauding- peasants and robbers are holding the roads outstda the city. A curious German-Bolshe-vik alliance exists within the city, holding together for mutual protection against the growing- hatredl of all classes. The Bolsheviks are acting under German orders, and German officers are commanding- the troops and! generally dtrecfcitig the outrages and arresta. They conduct daily hunts 'for Allied officers and partisans, 'whose life consists-of hairbreadth escapes. They are compelled to change their sleeping apartments nightly and to adopt disguises. The Germans were responsible for the recent arrest of 7000 Russian officers. Horrible brutality was shown towards the officers, many of whom are without legs or arms. /Khey are herded in small dungeons without food or drink, and there is no sanitation. Hundreds are dying of dysentery •• and -starvation.'

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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1918, Page 7

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RUSSIAN HORRORS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1918, Page 7

RUSSIAN HORRORS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1918, Page 7