RIGA REVELATIONS.
STOCKHOLM Sept. 21
Professor Guiclo Schneider has arrived from Riga. He states that Bolsheviks shot 13,63 2 #ien. women, and children in Riga in a short period. 'Victims were stripped and dragged over a snow-cpvered, bloodsoaked prison yard.. The executioners were intoxicated, and unable to aim properly, and.'hit the legs and stomachs of the victims, and laughed at their agonies, which sometimes lasted all day and all night. Elegantly dressed girls voL iintarily acted as executioners.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17672, 23 September 1919, Page 5
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78RIGA REVELATIONS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17672, 23 September 1919, Page 5
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