The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-10-10
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Blk THE RUSSIANS
d LJRiNG THE WAR

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Accepting as true the story Of the
manner Of the execution, as It was
told by the father and son OF the
victim. It was marked by, specific
cruelty which frequently married. ok
ecutions during the Russian raid into
East Prussia last October. The As
ISOLATED Press correspondent at that
time found many instances I'm which
the victims were stood against walls
and, instead Of being killed by vol
ley hre, as is usual In such execu-
tons. were killed by soldiers firing
at Will. Kozlowsh appears to have
been executed In the same manner,
after having been bound to a tree.
Executions Described.
Polish denunciations, according to
witnesses, were responsible for the
only three cases Of atrocity OF cruel.
I.ty found In LODI itself. Russian
soldiers came to the home Of Abram
Rochan on the Ba1uter Market in
November and took him away. His
wife was prevented from following
him. This was on a Friday. The
mans body was found outside the
city on the following Tuesday. He
had been shot.
Israel Blockmann, an old man
told how the Russians took his son
from the house on a Wednesday. and
how the body was found two days
later outside the city. he had been
shot and bayoneted. 4
Meilach Eilenberg. man Of about
As, got into trouble with. the LODI
authorities in November by making
and selling cigarets without a. IL
lcense. An official visited him and
Etlenberg paid tifty-two roubles as
hush money. The following day SOL
diers. who, Dilenberg said. had been
Informed of the affair, also appeared
and wanted money. He refused their,
demands. was arrested and brought
to the Russian military commander
in the Grand hotel. The command
er, who had not time to hear the
case through, told Eilenberg to con-
slider himself under arrest, to return
to his home and present himself the
next day. Eilenberg started out but
was stopped outside by soldier, led
into garden back OF the hotel, tied
to tree there and kept there for
eighteen hours. A rabbi, informed
Of the case, appealed to the COM
mander. who had Ei1enberg released.
A few days later the Russian COM
mander. having presumably investi-
gated the case, compelled the return
OF the fifty-two roubles taken from
Eilenberg and caused the CRATER to
be sent to jail for six weeks.
Shnrc plundoraJ
There was some p1undering OF
small shops in Lodz by Russian SOL
diers, but 1t appears, to have been
Of limited extent. Some shops were
pretty we'll cleaned out and their fix
lures thrown into the streets. AS al
whole, however. the procedure seems
to have been as described by the
owner OF q. small tobacco shop.
The Russians would come into
my shop" she said. point to some
cigaret and ask, how much? When
i told them, they took handful,
said spaseeba (thank YOU'D and walk
ed out"
Some Jews told of cases where
their countrymen had been badly
beaten in. the streets.
Jews in Piotrokow said there were
three days Of plundering and rioting
by Russian soldiers there, in which
Jews generally were dubbed and
whipped. One mans hand was brok-
en-. and five, they said, had cuts on
the head. Seventeen of the city's
most prominent Jews were banished
to Viatka. Seven hundred male Jews,
IT is declared, were assembled at the