SEMENOFF'S ARREST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 7

SEMENOFF'S ARREST.

EVIDENCE OF MURDER

AMERICAN GENERAL'S

TESTIMONY.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received April 13, 11.5 a.m. WASHINGTON. April 12. General Graves, commander of the Siberian force, appeared before the Senate Labour Committee. He declared that Semenoff, who is under arrest in New York, had been guilty of wholesale murders. General Graves submitted the testimony of American officers, wh« had seen trainloads of Bolshevik prisI oners sent out and return empty. Investigation revealed great common graves, where the massacred captives had been buried. Other evidence showed that Semenoff 3s troops murdered five American soldiers. Lieut.-Colonel Morrow testified that Semenoff's chief lieutenant executed ! men by hundreds, cutting them to j pieces with sabres. General Morrow's | force yielded to appeals by thousands of ' farmers who were menaced by the j Semenoff division, which killed and j plundered indiscriminately.