RUSSIAN HORRORS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12013, 16 March 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN HORRORS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. London, March 10 British officers and other refugees en route to Vladivostok describe the scene west of Irkutsk as surpassing all previous horrors. A pile of naked, frozen copses of men, women and children is stacked at every railw’ay station, and many have been gnawed by dogs. The Czechs took the engines from the hospital trains, leaving the sick to perish of cold and hunger. It was a case of human beings converted into beasts. The Czechs Atman has since voluntarily demobilised the army, and publicly begged forgiveness for the abuses and cruelties inflicted in his name. The Reds hope shortly to control the entire Siberian railway and the Chinese will dispose 3000 soldiers along a portion of thej; line. The authorities have the Japanese commanders to undertake to guard other sections, replacing the departing Americans.