The sun., 1919-08-03
SAY CZECHS BURIED
LIVING PRISONERS
Teutons, Excaptives From ST.
IBERIA, Sailing Hence Tell
Of Horrors.
REDS DUG OWN GRAVES
Wounded, Shot and Bayoneted,
Thrown Into Pit-U. 8.
Saved Many.

Czech soldiers buried dead ana
wounded Bolshevist soldiers In the same
pit and practised other cruelties upon
these and German prisoners In tnen
hands, according to stories told by mem
berg Of the German Red Cross and Ger
man officers who sailed yesterday for
home by way of Sweden on the ssean-
ship Oscar II.
\ The party of thirty-siv included I've
members of the Swedish Red cross, 81
of the Austrian Red Cross and nuinpe.
OF German officers and civilians, some Oh
whom have been prisoners In RUSSIA Loi
almost ave years All who saiieu sSs-
terday were outspokenly gratetui ior .no
aid of the United States IN rescSn,s
them from Siberia. where they were held
prisoners. and returning them 10 tneir
own country. The party passed ten Gays
In this city under the escort OF an agent
of the Department of Justice AFTER ar
irving from San Francisco, where they
landed after a voyage from Vladivostok-
Laugh mt Pleas for Mercy.
"Imasine such a thing as this" said
Julius Bar, a member OF the German
Red Cross Commission and IN pilve.e
life q wealthy chemical manuiac,u,er.
''You hear the tramping OF feet ano
chorus of rough orders. and there IN tne
nrison ward before you you see a group
Of fne looking Bolshevist prisoners oe-
ing manhandled by a company OF Czecn
troops. You see them with the spades
and picks and you hear them tolo ina.
they are to dig their graves You see
them compelled to dig while the Czecn
troops and officers beat them with tneir
swords and guns. IN.
"They dig a great hole, ana then, WhiIe
they are digging. you see the rines lev
elled; then you see them crop, sone y.
them dead, but most OF them only
wounded. And then you see the Greens
sump down among those who are SUI
living, bayonet them again and asaln
and ridicule their suffering. WINE those
still living are begging for mercy you Sc
their bodies tossed In among the deao
and then YOU see the Czechs shoVei ear ~
down upon them, burying the aeao anu
the living alike.
I'VE saw this directly In front OF lne
windows of our Red Cross sisters. II
,~aa staged by troops or the koichas
Government and It was only one OF
many similar incidents that we Were
compelled to see and live through. we
never knew when the same rate migns
be given to US. The Czech troops woulo
constantly point their bayonets at the
breasts of our Red Cross sisters, make q
lunge as though they were going 70
send the steel through. and would ten
them that their turn was coming next
THAT isn't the worst OF II. however
II YOU can imagine Red Cross sisters
voinen.. even though they are Germans
attended constantly by Czech soldiers
who accompanied them wherever they
went. oven holding raised swords and
ooised bayonets over them In the most
Intimate and personal matter. II you car
imagine this you have some IDEA o,
what our Red Cross sisters had to en-
dure.'
Miss Anne Marie wenzel. one OF the
German Red Cross women, said ina,
practically none of the money she ano
I'VE others who went to Russia In 1916
for whom 1t was intended. 1t wa
either taken direct from the Red Croz'
workers or was taken from the prison
ers az soon as they received It
Officers Were Mistreated.
Tho officers were mistreated In many
ways. They were subjected to the mos
severe discipline aid for the slightest
ATTRACTION they were confined in wretched
cells, starved, beaten or kicked. The
money we had for them was promptly
stolen. Other enortS were MADE TO re-
lieve their situation as well as tie sit
uation of all German prisoners in Rus
sia, but practically nothing could be dont
because of the failure of the Russian
Government to cooperate and because
theft Of everything the officers had wal
rampant"
81 want to tell you, and we all wisf
to tell you, that we will never forge
what America did for those German
prisoners. They were given every atteu
ton and every care. 1t was wonderful
The members of the party are Emmi
Won Bunssen. Ella Won Schach. ANN
Marie Wenzel Baroness Lena vol
Wedekind. Count Haven Scholffgotsch
Waldemar PruSe. Joseph Esnberger
Joseph Obst. Joseph Edward Hartman
Rolf Oilrio Herbert Herxberg. Bdwart
Vuhl. Joseph Won Busslem. DR.. Wilhelm
Rultmann, DIR. Walter Arndt. Arthu
Werer. Willy Won Domains. Hans Huti
Roders. Paul Fellenberg. Georg Muller
Joseph Kulbourg, Franz CARRIER, Gerhar
Eievers, Ludwig Conrad. Ernst Kttner
DR.. Leopold Petri. Julius Bar. Siegfrie'
Landmann, Johann Franz, Walter Sim
roch Alfred SinadAr Robert ROchkegol