TEN THOUSAND MASSACRED AT PETROGRAD.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14877, 27 September 1918, Page 5

TEN THOUSAND MASSACRED AT PETROGRAD.

BRITISH AND FRENCH OFFICERS

HOLDING OUT.

UNDER NORWAY'S PROTECTION

(Renter's Telegrams.)

(Received Sept. 2G, 7.50 p.m.)

Copenhagen, Sept. 25

Advices from Petrograd state that it is estimated that the Bolsheviki killed a total of 10,000 people at Potrograd. In one day they ordered the execution of 72 officers without _ specifying their names. A nujnber of British and French officers have taken refuge in the American , Consulate, and are under Norway's protection. The Bolsheviki posted guards round the building and demanded the surrender of the officers, but they did | not enter the consulate.

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[Peess Association.—Coptbight.]