The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-29

men and students to be hanged as so,,
as strikes broke out or attempts we,s
made at assassination.
kilograms from tho provinces ,or.
announce that the bloody decree bn.
been put In operation almost cvervyhc,,
Nijni-Novgorod trembles In Tl.la mai.
tiers are proceeding in earnest ia IN.
laconic report. In Petrograd and Mo-.
COW the number shot dead during IN.
last few days alreadys amounts 10 thon.
sands. The last victims include mauv
former Ministers OF the Gear. aiaonr
them Tschcgiowitom. Chwoston. MAJ
koff. ProtopopoT and many other All
Of whom played important parts In In,
recent history OF Russia.
DraRgea FROM Cells and shot.
During the last few weeks It was Or.
dered that they should be brought be-
fore the courts to reveal TO the peops
all the secrets OF the Cars Government
They now have been spared this last u.
hlbition. They were dragged from thei
cells at night without being given tine
TO prepare themselves for death The
were taken to Petrovysky Park and the.s
shot dead BY Lettish sailors.
THE details Of these wholesale uon,
turnal executions are being KEEP; secre,
IT Ia said that on q square. brilliant
lighted by arc lamps. squad ot
Soviet soldiers was always kept In
ref diness to receive victims broushs
from the great Buthr prison No tine
was wasted and pity was unsxpended
II IL asserted that almost all knew nor
to die like mon and rcfraincd from use.
less lamenta tons.
"ln the provinces women were sho, 6,
hostages The Ministers also mo, deaf
In disnified manner Arch Prcs
Storgoff, who was executed in common
with them, although wounded, faund
strength TO uplift his hands aud bless
his executioners.
"Of some Of the sailors who partic'.
pated In the executions Amos, every
night II Ia related that they continued
the execution habit, executions having
become necessary to them. just as NOR.
phia is to morphinomaniscs., They vol.
un,eer for this service and Cannot steep
unless they shoot some one dead.
1T is said in MOSCOW that seyers,
grand dukes have been arrested in petro-
grad and already shot. In Government
circles the reports are laughine'y re-
piled to by saying that they have orlv
been spared until a little later. togetns
with some Of kerensky's ministers. and
Iildl tHe Pccplc IptSt INV oV h'PS'NH'
Al TrembIe ana Keep silent.
Relatives OF hostages know nothing
of the day or hour OF their executions
not even the accomplished fact being
communicated to them. Thus many
wives and mothers know nothing OF tho
death OF their husband and sons. They
are knocking at all doors in the hope o.
getting into communication with them.
| 1.-THE Wholesale terror has the effect Of
blows with a bludgeon. Every one from
bles but keeps silent. Public opinion Is
so suppressed and the population Ia 50
! defenseless that Moscow could quite
easily be put to the sword without an in.
surrcction resulting
The correspondent says there If M
sisn that the power OF the Bolshevis;s I,
waning. hut that he cannot believe thai
the adherents Of the Soviet Gorcrnmen
have been Increased by the ia.est dc
| cree
1.-THE Russian has never heon hlood
thirsty and mere murder 10 lonsc
awakens his savage instincts" says IT,
| correspondent. IA permanent pogror
il intolerable 10 him. A Russian ma
indeed forget God, but without God h
cannot live"