HUMAN TARGETS AND HUMAN BONFIRES.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIIII, Issue 82, 8 April 1920, Page 5

HUMAN TARGETS AND HUMAN BONFIRES.

[Press Association.] (United Service:) (Kecked A^Kgl^ Ttussian letters describe the tures inflicted upon **•©• British offioojra captured by the Bolsheviks at; Bostoff. They were 'striked, their arms were broken, and they wer 0 tied to posts in the public square while officers fixed revolvers at their' arms and legs. The Englishmen reft lsedi to kneel, whereupon iheir legs., were broken and they were then sb/ ft. Other accounts w hen the BolsJwwiks capt.nWd '*Kosto:ff jfonnd five hundred wounded^officers In the volunteer army hospit a.l. in© Bolsheviks 'packed itheVtf&semc snt with inflammable materials, formed a cordon round the Inuidiag to prevent escape, then set ferrto it. No one escaped from $&& 'flames.