Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-24

month and has reached Haparanda,
 Sweden.
 Beringer, in his report wired from
 Haparanda, says he was arrested
 while in the home of the British
 chaplain and several other English men and women was marched on foot
 two miles through the streets to the Lubyanka House of Dentention.
 q was separated from my com
 panions and was led to a room in which were some 30 prisoners, most ly civilians, including a few women" writes Mr. Beringer "I spent five days and nights in this room in which there was just sufficient space for the inmates to sleep on the floor. There was no bed of any kind, for food we had a piece of black bread and a few dips with a wooden spoon into a bowl of the thinnest possible cabbage soup containing some herring heads Eight of us had to share the contents of this one bowl. Many people who were without provisions from outside were literally in a state of starvation.
 LAAt lAAG AAAooAeAAA plASbltio VIC NNAt treated as helots and were addressed insultingly in the second person sin gular by low brutes among the red guards.
 Late one night when some of the other prisoners were singing sudden ly there was a deathlike hush. l looked up and saw a red guard off ceT and soldiers standing at the open ing to the ante-room in which the prison guards were stationed. A list of 12 names of civilians and soldiers was read out. No one doubted what this meant. It was the list of those set down for immediate execution. It included two pairs of brothers. All the condemned men rose without de- lay and shook hands with their neigh bors. Not one showed the slightest fear.
 The iron folding doors between the big room and the ante-room were then closed. This was done only when prisoners were taken away for execution. The doors remained closed ! for a few minutes and were then re- opened and the names of two other soldiers who had previously been | overlooked were called out These | also rose without a tremor and the folding doors were shut a second ! and last time. The condemned pris- oners were either shot in the base 1 ments of the prison with their backs | to the firing party or they were taken i out to the suburbs in motor lorries and there told to get out and get away. Then vOlleys were poured into . them while they were walking or run | ming away. The bodies are sometimes l recoverable by relatives on payment ! of heavy bribes."
 Later Beringer was transferred to | Butyrky jail at the other end of the city which contained some 5000 pris- 1 oners. In the cell he occupied there . was a Russian eX-judge, a few sol l diers and some members of the mid | de and working classes. The vermin ! was as bad as at Lubyanka and sani- ! taTy conditions worse. There was no possibility of taking a bath but Rerin 1 ger was allowed half hours exercise | daily in the yard.
 There he and some of the others . received assistance from Mai Allen | Wardwell of the American Ped Cross. ! who, he writes, literally slaved oa 1 behalf of the prisoners"
 The conditions of our internment 1 were so vilely sordid that it is no that the minds of some of the | more refined prisoners became un- 1 hinged" Beringer wires.
 ''The Bolshevik leaders show no In their newspapers they [ hold up Marat as the ideal friend of ! the people. They urge that his ex- ample should be followed and preach ! the extermination of the entire mid i de class"