THE RUSSIAN RED TERROR
NEW YORK, Sept. 23 | v Mons. Dosch Flouron, "writing from Stodkholm;, says: —■''Peters has absolute power of life and death over ianybody in Russia.. A neutral who has been before him many times pleading for the lives of innocent persons, told me that Peters became furious. >
"The little animal sign® death warrants all day, sitting in the Kremlin. On one occasion he signed a.way the lives of 72 officers without glancing at the paper.
Doech Fiuerot'e Stockholm introduction reads:—'"The most awful figure of the .Russian red terror is a dapper little blonde Lett named Peters. He ia oomimissioner extraordinary against the counter revolution. Peters lived in England for years, and speaks 'Russian with an English' accent. , He daily signs aiway lives of scores of men. and, women he has never seen, because, they are suspected of being against the Bolsheviks. J'-HA. Amd N.ZrOaibtei "-"' '
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13808, 25 September 1918, Page 3
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