Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-27
THOUSANDS SHOT
IN RUSSIAN CITIES
Others Are Dying of Starvation
in Prisons and on
Highways.
WOMEN ARE BEING OUTRAGED
Entire City of Petrograd Is Like
Vast Graveyard, Says
Report.
WOMEN ARE BEING OUTRAGED

WASHINGTON, September 26.--Thc
State Department to-day was in receipt
of information from Russia which paIes
into insisnticance the dreadful chron-
icles of the French revolution
Mass murder is the order OF the day
III both Pctrograd and Moscow Thou
sands of persons have been shot, other
thousands are dying o! starvation i'm
Erlsons women are being attacked and
outraged, and neither city offers "A
sinSie place OF refuge.
me latest report. dated September
10, shows that on that day the most
violent elements o: the Boishcvik were
In control in pctrograd \ reign OF
terror had been instituted BY them and
their acts Of frightfulncss were such
as 70 cove the entire population. The
ehuiIe city. the report said, was like
vast graveyard. not only because Of
inc bodies OF the dead. but also be
cause OF the awful stiffness that fol-
iowed IN the wake of the murders.
tundrcds OF persons were arrested
ana cast into vile jails at the point of
the bayonets OF the Red Guards. tn
NhoWh numbers were being shot daily
at Cronstadt alone.
The report also said that l7oO nor.
sons mostly former officers. were I'M
of ofF arrest as hostages for the lives
missar has been injured since the as
sassination Of uritsky.
Many of the LOO former officers are
believed 10 have been deliberately rnur-
dered in cold blood by the Boisheviki
as recent storm. reports say, wash
ed scores of bodies ashore.
,urisi rhe h9isheSiS 80 refused TO ell,w the
as,or asyourSd seo, by starved dogs along :he
HS'er front. Even this. II is said, had
in the grin on Of fhe ed1 PNpufa ton, which is
shcviki. There appears II be no hone
OF change in the situation
ONE THOUSAND PERSONS
MURDERED IN MOSCOW
Another report from Moscow, dated
September =. shows conditions tnert
TO ue just as horrible as IN i'etrosrad
On that day tne massacre ui Kuss:an
C!tlzcns stu vas in progress. one
hundred and fifty executions Was the
usua! quota each night. Up until then
more than loo persons had been Kill
some manner or another OF being i'm
plicated in the plot TO nssassinatc Le-
nine.
On September 9th, :hc report said,
an order was issued in Moscow for
the arrest OF All the members of tile
British diplomatic mission and the
French consul-gtncral and military at
tache. Those officials, by chance. were
in the office of the American consul
general. which had become an adjunct
OF the Norwegian legation. and on Sep
tember they still had an asylum
there. Their fate after that day. how
ever. il unknown.
consular agents for whose benefit be-
Wit Z. Poole: American consul-general.
remained in Moscow long after he had
turned the affairs of his government
over TO the Norwegian legation and
until he was ordered by the state be-
pariment 10 leave :hc country. Sec
Mr.. Poole was safe in Stockholm and
his version Of affairs in Russia Is cx-
pected 10 be far more complete than
from varied. but authentic. sources
The Norwegian attache. the report
continued. was endeavorinG 20 obtain
safe conduct for the French citizens
10 go TO the Danish consulate and the
English 10 the Swedish consulate On
September Q, however. Mr.. I.ockhart.
the British consul. still was imprison-
cd in the kremlin. He was arrested
and thrown into cell on September 4.
The Soviet government had promised
free departure for British nationals. cx-
cept males from the age of eighteen
10 forty.
ENGLISH AND FRENCH
ARE HELD IN PRISONS
Other allies. it was said was free TO
horrible condition in the prisons Is
given by description Of the fate OF
forty-siS Englishmen. imprisoned on an
order from Moscow in the fortress Of
Peter and Paul. 1t was charged that
proof had been found which implicated
them in the assassination OF Uritsky
About twenty French citizens were III
the same prison.
Conditions. the adviccs point out,
could not he worse. The prisoners are
crowded in groups of fifteen or twenty
IN small. damp cells, where it is impos-
s.blc for more than three or s.ur to
lie down at the same time They are
permitted no exercise. tho air is foul.
they arc given hardly any food and no
bedding.
The Bolshcviki recently captured
torty-four CHccho- Slovak troops in an
attempt TO escape 10 their comrades in
the allied armies to the north. \ sort
time ago these men were discovered
in an out -of -the-way prison. They
were truly starving to death. Fifteen
dying condition. The International Red
Cross. acting on the initiative OF Amer
leans. recently has made conditions a
little better for prisoners by supplying
them with food and bedding. Through
out all Russia. where the Bolsheviki
terror OF their atrocities is daily as
suming more frishtful forms Swcdes
returning from Russia testify to this.
and an account OF. conditions is given
in the Dasens Nyheter. Of Stock holm.
The state Department this afternoon
made public a digest OF the newspaper
article. Briefly, it is this
Machine gun and rife shots are heard
night and day. often the red guards
block streets and examine and plum
der people caught III that area. They
enter street cars, break into houses
and restaurants. examining people, raw
aging and destroying everything in
their way"
SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED