RUSSIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16507, 7 August 1919, Page 3

RUSSIA.

U AWFUL STORIES. OF BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. (Received August 7, 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. v Router’s special correspondent at ’> Rostoff-on-Dou, cabling on July 31, '• ; states that the horrors perpetuated at j Kharkolf by the Chresvychaika or Boltjiievik Extraordinary Commission j connot bo refuted.* After the occupai tion of the city by Denikin’s troops | hundreds of victims of Bolshevik cruel--1 ty were disinterred in the presence of i the medical authorities, representatives ' of the trades unions and responsioio 1 foreigners. i Photographs were taken of some of 1 tho devices for tortui’ing victims of s 1 fiendish ingenuity. One called “'glovot ! making” was utilised to strip the .skin ’ ; from the hands of living victims. Sov- ' era! pairs of these gloves were found I and photographed. Every conceivable form of mutilation was perpetuated in tho Chresvychaika slaughterhouse. Hands, feet and breasts were cut oif, jaws smashed, eyes gouged out and victims disembowelled or tortured by having boiling water poured over them. A!any were thrown alive into wells and mineshafts, others heaped in lingo holes in the ground, and in underground gal- . i lories several layers of corpses were ! : discovered. ! Tho commissaries nightly made, mcri ry, while Bolshevik, Cnincso and other 1 ghouls were revelling in a more ghastly i manner. Arrests were made on farcial charges; some were arrested j and shot for possessing verses satirising i the Bolsheviks. j Among the favourite questions of tho I inquisitors was; “Have you ever abuss ) cd Trotsky ?” as the repression of tho - 1 Jews and atrocities redoubled after . : tho visits of Trotsky to Kharkolf. Tho 1 | inhabitants deliriously welcomed the [ Cossacks. Practically all tho workmen I i aro now bitter against (be Bolsheviks, j ( as arc also the peasants in the sur- j rounding country, ami workmen latter- | 1 . ly have openly derided the Bolshevik I posters as circulating ridiculous lies, j —Router. i BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA. i i i i SPREADING TO AFGHANISTAN. I _ MOSCOW, Augiist 4. A Bolshevik wireless states that tho Foreign Minister has sent a note, to Afghanistan expressing his sympathy witii tho Afghans, pointing out that tho Soviet Government had cancelled all secret treaties for the enslavement of small nationalities,- and desired to recognise self-determination on tho : part of all nations, large or small. ' Tho Russian peasant# had found that ' only under tho Soviet system could they i ! preserve themselves from the scourge of | i military dictatorship. Victory would i I bo tbcirs, not only throughout Russia, J i but internationally. Their enemies 1 i would continue to crumble like General J j Koltchak.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. I f