NEW TERROR IN RUSSIA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15320, 16 September 1920, Page 6

NEW TERROR IN RUSSIA

•■work cm mpT-oR be bangpr." constantinopi^, June «&•— A terror greater than the Red Terror hangs oyer the ex-soldlers of Denekin's army who siill enjoy the hospitality of the Allies ln Constantinople and on the pleasant islands near by (writes str.percival Phillips). They are faced with the prospect og oeing sent back to Russia to fight or, what Is far worse, to work. Generaf Wr&n_H 'wants tftem. Jt must he confessed that the averajre Ru§sian refugee &as eutworn. hi§ weippH.e, gljice General Wrangtl took -over his bankrupt fragment of rion-Bolghevist* territory and converted it into a going concern, nearly all the really patriotic exiles have gone back voluntarily to help m its reconstruction. Thoge who remain are idlers, who are quite content to draw British rations, kiss the hands 0? powder£s} near-princesses m the Petit Champs, and lounge along tl.p Granfl j.\_e fle Pera m lull war ftlt ai.^ many'decorations. . Tne camp§ which house \W TftnH fiud ftfe of pia.e refugees hay. bepopy? centre, pf iai.§a#ppt_on, Qo.gheyiit propagandists have been discovered at work. Factional feuds have resulted m serious casualties. The other day a gigantic Oossack quarrelled with ft comrade over cardg, and killed ftlni witft an axe - TbG * tew™ ?# discipline, gvgrs,tf.y tftelr leave, anu generally tpeat theft British benefactors with scofrti, not to §ay pontempt. fhe last thing they contemplate doing is going back to that unpleasant hungerstricken, vodkaless cpast ol the Black Sea where the new army has been hammered into being, fiut— > General tl.enft, fmfl it appear? that. they 'must gp. Tiring finally bf the constant quarrels, ai_4 t'e epuptfon pf forpidden firearms m pne Russian "labor" fa'mP- The BrWsh authorities recently re-exported gome 400 male refugees tp {.pbastppol, They wfepe furious. Tne night before they left, over sixty broKe camp, anc. had to be rpuna§a up py the military police. Six others made a bolt for liberty before the steamep left the Jjosphorus, and were hauled back ignominiousiy. British sen. tries picketed the ship during the voyage. When she anchored m the harbor at Sebastopol a brisk staff officer came aboard and looked the passengers over. "Splendid," he said- "General Wrangel will be pleased." "What will he do with them?" asked officer of the escort. •■ "put tftgin m the army or on war work t^ere," was tftp penly. "flUt they sjiy fhpy won't BsM 6F MTk," safd ftp British pfflcer. "General tyrangel Wijl see to that." gaid the other. "They will be asked to-* morrow morning; -Witt ?°u join the army or aa to worfc?' Jf they say 'No' we shall 'hang them up.'." "Hang them up?" "On those trees m the main street. Ha<j you arrived yesterday you would have found twelve men hanging there. They refused to obey orders." And that is General Wrangel's little way. He "hangs them up." His execution tree* wpve horridly fruitful during the e^rly week# pf ftjs pegijne. He han«4 soliders oiit of hand fordUPheimmef-j' ftp hanged officers for npt attending tp tfte.p duties op for getting drunk, he hangec., so I am to)d, a flefl Oroj»3 nu r ue WPP was guilty of til-treating a helpless invalid. The executions .are wholly informal. Simply a rope and two pr three strong men to 4iolst the condemned filoft. As pany as three bvdle* h»ve been left

danflins - Iron cne telegraph polo ar, an _ object i-S.oft to the _a-r__.cn. Thi. policy h_: encouraged tee Russian.*; wonderfully- Languid refugees, with hate m their hearts, have been transformed into brisk and willing workers , within an hour of their arrival on Russian soil. The arsenal at Sebastopol, the army workshops, the groat drill grounds are all humming with activity, and there arc no laggards. In refugee circles here forced repatriation is described as "going to visit Wrangel." Already there is a perceptible thinning of the throng of bemedalled veterans. A Russian m uniform has become an object of keen scrutiny by the police, and the demand for "papers" is unpleasantly insistent. The litttle princesses and ncar-prln-cesse-s (careful inquiry lends to show that there cannot be more than three Russian ladles m Constantinople who are not of noble birth) are disconsolate. So are the gentlemen, whose grim host is beckoning to them from the other side of the Black