RED REIGN AT KIEFF.
"A CITY OF HORRORS." BUTCHERY BY BOLSHEVIKS. Times. LONDON*, Sept. 23. A Times correspondent describes Kieff as a city of horrors under the Bolshevik regime. During their 200 days' occupation the, Bolsheviks carried out hundreds of executions daily. The corpses were left lying in the streets till they reached a horrible state of putrefaction. One hundred and forty corpses of prisoners locked in a small apartment were left to rot. The walls of a garage behind a gloomy tree-shaded house used as the place of execution were pitted by revolver bullets. The walls were also splashed with blood, and the floor was covered with a thick, glutinous mass of blood.
An English governess living near by was kept awake all night by the awful shrieks of the victims. The executioners, including a woman named Rosa Scharwz, lived above the shambles. Their rooms were found to be littered with playing cards, gramophones, and dog-eared novels.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17274, 25 September 1919, Page 7
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158RED REIGN AT KIEFF. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17274, 25 September 1919, Page 7
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