SLAUGHTER AT KIEFF

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 79, 1 October 1919, Page 7

SLAUGHTER AT KIEFF

COMBINED WITH MENTAL

TORTURE

REFINEMENT OF TERRORISM,

(ONITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WARSAW, 29th September.

Evidence is accumulating of appalling atrocities, which were perpetrated during the Red Terror in Kieff. Thousands of bodies of murdered people are being found, chiefly in cellars. Members of the Bolshevik Council sat daily on one side of a great wooden cage, with wooden bars. 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.

Tlie Morning Post's correspondent narrates even more horrible barbarityl—the so-called "confinement torture." The underlying idea was to imprison a victim,, with dead and mutilated bodies. " "Confinement torture" sometimes took the form of shutting up prisoners in the slaughterhouse, where the windows were broken with bullets, and the floors were still covered with the blood and fragments of the bodies, despite the use of chloride of lime. Later this' w«n judged to be insufficient, and the prisoners were chained up, twenty-four at a time, for 96 hours in actual coffins with the: men and women they had seen Wiled. Thirty cases of insanity resulted in Kieff. Many of tho bodies were flung into the anatomical rooms at the Kieff University; where boys used to pulT themselves up to the windows' in order to gloat over the gruesome horrors. Thus a handful of alien commissioners kept 200,000 people in Kieff under subjection for seven months. . • . ' ■■ ■>,