BRITISH OFFICERS.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15346, 9 April 1920, Page 5

BRITISH OFFICERS.

TORTURED BY .BOLSHEVISTS

WOUNDED PERISH IN FLAMES

(United Service.)

London, April 7

Russian letters describe the tortures inflicted upon two British officers who were captured by Bolshevists at Rostoff. The officers were stripped, their arms were broken, and they were tied to posts on the public square. Officers fired revolvers at their arms and legs. The Englishmen refused to kneel, whereupo^n their legs were broken, and they -were then shot. Other accounts state that when the Bolshevists captured Rostoff they found 500 wounded "officers in the Volunteer Army hospital. The fJolshevis ts packed the basement with inflammable materials, and formed a cordon round the building to prevent escape, and then set fire" to it. No one escaped the flames.