BOLSHEVIK HORRORS
OFFICER'S EXPERIENCE
SYDNEY, dan. 17
Captain 0. Evdely and his wife arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Ormonde, with the'intention of settling in Australia. Captain Erdely was bom in Moscow, and served with the White Army from 1913-1920, being for some time in Serbia. lie recalled with horror the atrocities committed by the Reds on soldiers of the White Army who were taken prisoner. He said that he bad seen terrible mutilations. Jn some cases the llolslieyiks had replaced the four stars on the epaulettes of the officers with four nails driven into the flesh. In other eases he had seen'men buried alive up to their chins, and left at the mercy of birds. who came and picked out their eyes. It was also no uncommon thing for the captives to be blinded, and to suffer other indescribable disfigurements.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 7
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