RUSSIAN HORRORS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10536, 12 March 1920, Page 6

RUSSIAN HORRORS

GRUESOME SCENES CORPSES EATEN BY PROWLING BOGS. MEN CONVERTED INTO BEASTS. HEARTLESS CZECHS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 12, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 10. .British officers and other refugees en ronto to Vladivostok describe tho scene west of Irkutsk as surpassing all previous horrors. Piles of naked, .frozen corpses of men, women, .and children were stacked at every railway, station. Many wore gnawed by dogs. Tho Czechs took Lite engines and hospital trains, leaving tho sick to perish of cold and hunger. Xfc was ti case of human beings converted beasts, ... .' The Czechs’ Atman has since voluntarily demobilised tho army, and .puplicly begged forgiveness for tho (senses and cruelties inflicted in his naife. . The “Reds” hope shortly to control tho entire Siberian railway. Tho authorities asked Japanese commanders to undertake to guard certain sections, replacing the departing Americans. ; t PROFESSORS SLAUGHTERED. (Received March H, 3.5 p.m.) HELSINGFORS, March 9. The secretary of the Russian Aca* demy of Science states that there has been a regular slaughter of Russian profession under tho Bolshevik regime. He mentions that eight leading educationalists were killed. BOLSHEVIKSDEFEATED ' ROUTED ON LITHUANIAN FRONT. - - "A DICTATOR OF POLAND.” Published in "The Times “ ■{Received March 12, 12.40 a.m.) ■V WARSAW, March IQ, VOfficial: The Polish army inflicted, a smashing blow on tho Bolsheviks on the Lithuanian front, compelling the “Reds” to retreat in panic. The staff of the 47th Red, Division are among the thousand prisoners captured, and important strategical railways ■at Mbrjrz and Halenkowitz severed, The achievement has stirred public enthusiasm, as a triumph of the first importance to the political fortuncs;of Pibudski, making him virtually absolute Dictator of Poland.'