RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14869, 18 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

A FRENZY OF TERRORISM.

BOLSHEVIKI LIKENED TO MAD

DOGS,

OFFICERS AND PRIESTS THE

CHIEF VICTIMS,

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Stockholm, Sept. 16. The terrorism in Russia has reached a stage of absolute frenzy. The correspondent of a Stockholm newspaper likens the bloodthirsty Soviets' ruthlessness to rabies. A daily spectacle is numerous corpses floating on the Neva, washed towards Kroristadt. or swept ashore. Another ghastly sight was six priests roped together and flung into the river. The tide later washed their bodies up on the- Ibeach. Tumbrils are heard rolling, all night through the Petrograd streets laden with corpses from the prison courtyards. Priests and officers are the chief victims. Other*1 principally hated are the bourgeoisie, who are shot on the least suspicion cf anti-Bolsheviki tendencies. Over a hundred engineers and foremen of the Putiloff works wore nmrdered because they displeased the manager. 'Assassination became the . .regular policy when-the' executive appointed Lenin, Trotzky, and Sinobiefi to protect the tott-ering Bolshevism, assisted by TJritsky as Minister of the Interior, | who i.s nicknamed the Bolshoviki Marat. The result of the proclamal"!:jii <\"- ---j mand ing the- shooting of everyone <-un vie ted cf anti-Bolshevist sentiments was that the Red Guards and the rabble carried out the orders with I savage alertness. . The young student Ranncyoishel acted as Uritsky's Charlotte Corday.

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Fifty-two victims were listed at first and afterwards they were so numerous that no further lists were published. Murders, imprisoning and hostages greatly increased after Uritsky'a death. 'Thus a-situation of extreme'peril has boon created, and a revolt may break .out at any moment, which the Soviets .dread. ■ • j The city is paraded by artillery in all directions and machine giyis are posted at every corner.

Highly-paid Red Guards and Chineso servo as bodyguards and surround every Commissioner's residence and office.