HORRORS OF KHARKOFF.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 25 August 1919, Page 8

HORRORS OF KHARKOFF.

UNSPEAKABLE BOLSHEVIK TORTURES.

CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Times.) (Received Aug. 25, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 24. A correspondent in South Russia gives an eye-witness' account of the scenes' in Khariioff following its recapture from! the Bolshevists. Tens of thousands of | people crowded in the vicinity of a five-; storey torture house, the various rooms of which were found to be literally «rowded with corpses and bloodstained «lotbing. The walls were, spattered with blood. All the victims had been tortured. A pit six feet deeD, close to! the. house contained forty bodies. Strips «f skin were torn off some of these t)odies, which had nails driven into the heads and ribs. In another pit fifteen, bodies, including a woman, all bore tervxible indications of torture. One wan and a woman had been hurried alive after their mouths had been filed with earth and the tonguo jammed between the te4th. Terrible scenes of grief occurred as members of the crowd reeogiUH?d relatives aroonj the victims.