GHASTLY ATROCITIES

Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 4

GHASTLY ATROCITIES

PERPETRATED BY RUMANIANS TORTURES AND EXECUTIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 1. Air George Ronwick, the ‘Daily Chronicle’s ’ correspondent, alleges that gruesome judicial crimes are being perpetrated by the Rumanians in Bessarabia. The story is vouched for, by such men as Professor Albert Einstein and M. Henri Barbusse, author of ‘ Le Feu.’ A year ago a number of Rumanian gendarmes murdered a Bessarabian peasant because he refused to lot them have goods for nothing. The neighboring peasants were aroused, _ but the authorities, instead of punishing the criminals, treated the peasants as criminals, and as punishment destroyed six villages by artillery 'fire. They also burned tho town of Tatar Bunar, whero 200 peasants were massacred _ and eighty-seven who sought refuge in a church were hauled out. tortured, and executed. It is officially stated that 2,000 rebels were killed, while tho socalled revolt was being suppressed. The bodies of 269 prisoners, who were executed in cold blood, were displayed publicly as a warning to the population. Four hundred and twenty-six men, women, and children are still confined in prison under tho foulest circumstances in Kishinoff, and are now threatened wtih court-martial without any defence. Professor Einstein and others have signed a strong protest to tho Rumanian Government,—A. and N.Z. Cablo.