WANTED BY SOVIET

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18601, 31 December 1920, Page 5

WANTED BY SOVIET

THE “ TERROR OF TH-E'VOLGA."-

LIETENYL’S BLOOD-STAINED- M : CAREER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, December 28. ; They bloodstained career of the Bolshevist arch-eriroipal Lietenyl, ex-pro- • sklent of the Soviet at Tsaritsyn, and formerly the terror of the Lower Volga; ■ for whose head the Soviet is offering!;. 10,000,000 roubles, is related‘in the Bolshevist official organ “Prarda.”. Lietenyl is said to have massacred , fifteen hundred persons, half of whom were women and children, during the past three months: After ho was ex- > pellet! from Tsaritsyn he, with a hand of Kalmucks (Mongolians}, seized a river steamer and proclaimed himself ruler of Astrakhan (a Russian province on the north of the Caspian Sea). He ■' ravaged villages and slaughtered the inhabitants. For. example, in October . he killed all the men in a village and carried off the women, who were kept on a steamer for three days. He then cut their throats and the bodies were thrown into the river. Lietenyl and his fellow ruffians, late in November, burned the steamer and started for the Caucasus with huge booty.