GHASTLY HORRORS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1919, Page 7

GHASTLY HORRORS

PERPETRATED IN SOUTH RUSSIA

HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS DIS-

COVERED

CHINESE TORTURERS' WORK.

{UNITED PBJJS3 ASSOCIATION.—COPTRiaHT.)

(REUTBR-S TELEGKAH.I (Received August 7, 8 a.m.) LONDON, sth August. Reuter's special correspondent at Rostoff, on the Don, cabling on 31st July, states that the horrors perpetrated at the Kharkoff by the '< Chresvychaika, or Bolshevik extraordinary commission, are irrefutable. After the occupation of the city by Deniken's troops, hundreds of victims of Bolshevik cruelty were disinterred in the presence of medical authorities, representatives of trades unions, and responsible foreigners, and j photographs were taken. Spme of the I devices for torturing the victims were of fie'ndieh ingenuity. One called "glovemaking," was utilised to strip the skin from the hands of living victims. Several pairs of these "gloves" were found, and photographed. Eyery conceivable form of mutilation was perpetrated in the Chresvychaika slaughter house. Hands, feet, and breasts were cut off, jaws smashed, eyes gouged out, and victims disembowelled or tortured by having boiling water poured over them. Many were thrown alive into wells and mineshafts. Others were heaped in huge holes in the ground: In underground galleries several layers of corpses were discovered. The Commissaries nightly .made merry while the Bolshevik Chinese, and other ghouls revelled in* a more ghastly manner. Arrests were made on farcical charges. Some people were arrested and shot for possessing verses satirising the Bolsheviks. Among favourite questions of the inquisitors was "Have you ever abused Trotsky ae a Jew?" The repressions and atrocities were redoubled after the visits of Trotsky. The inhabitants of Kharkoff deliriously welcomed the Cossacks. Practically all the workmen are now bitter against the Bolsheviks, as well as the peasants in the surrounding country. The workmen have latterly been openly deriding the Bolshevik posters as circulating ridiculous lies.