RUSSIAN SUFFERINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Issue 17266, 16 September 1919, Page 8

RUSSIAN SUFFERINGS.

BOLSHEVIK BLOOD LUST.

KOLTCHAK'S ONE AMBITION.

An American Consular official at Omsk, ' Mr. John ;A. Embry, has: returned to '; New; York with a stony of ths£ L horrors of Bolshevism. . After ''AdnflrjjJ .J£<>ltchak had occupied Ufa, Mr. a former Judge of the Appellate Court of i Ufa, visited- «the eiigy and heard the — story of its Bufferings froia the people. The occupying-'force of Bolshevists first looted*4.he town, arid then. appointed their own government, the chief feature of an extraordinary committee of invei.uigation. This comjnttee, headed by a cruel Lett named \ Belt, proceeded to

arrest every man, woman, or child, suspected of being opposed to the Bolshev- * ists. Prisoners by* the score were- led into the public, square and; executed. > The President of the J Ufa, Council .wasVdragged from' hospital,' wheeled'in an. invalid chair to the square, and there shot dead by Belt himse-f. Mr. Emhry confirms the reports that the, Bolshevists, did not bury their victims, and with the melting of ihe snowa thousands of corpses" were discovered.. .He , relates that a ..teacher of the High School told him that the Bolshevists ,>,. lined up all the scholars, big and little. The Big boys whom they suspected of being anti-Bolshevists and therefore eligible for service under Admiral Koltchak, were taken out and shot. J.ne others v.-ere put to work ,<d the most menial character. The girls were ordered . to seive in barracks, where their taskmasters systematically flogged "all not blessed with good looks,. eln all the cities, drunken soldiers broke into homes, violate'? women, and shot the males. Everywhere the Bolshevist leaders issued an order forbidding people to attend church, and for the purpose of showing their contempt for religion they desecrated the icons. - In one instance they placed a gramophone on the altar and played nonreligio>w music. Mr. Embry cited numerous individual cases, which came under his notice, of respectable women who were subjected to nauseating insults before being put to death. Mr. Embry pives as his personal i opinion that Admiral .Koltchak is the greatest man that the Russian revolution has produced. His only ambition is to redeem the country from terror, from Lenin and Trotzky, and to establish a Government that will be democratic in the noblest sense of the word. Mr. Embry is convinced that Admiral Koltchak will eventually succeed in completely overthrowing the Bolshevist regime.