The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-03-27
EATING HUMAN FLESH.
Press Dispatches Say Russians are
Being Executed and Dying by
iE Millions.


Not since the days following the
Thirty Years War has nation kept
itself alive on human flesh. At that
time soldiers had to drive starving
people away from the gallows on
which political prisoners had been ex-
scuted. Conditions in Russia are
worse. In the following comment on
the horrors of Bolshevism the Liter
ary Digest gives a CHASTITY account of
conditions in Russia: ~,
+. To symbolic the heaven on earth
brought about the Bolshevik rule,
futurist artists were commissioned to
paint sky-blue the entire Theatre
Square in Moscow, and to suspend
snow white lanterns from the trees
in imitation of clouds. This was dur
ing a festival arranged by the Soviet
Government to celebrate the anniver-
sary of It's advent to power. Since the
aim of Bolshevism, according to its
leaders, is to dominate the world, and
a vigorous propaganda ih its behalf
has been uncovered in this country,
it is interesting to contemplate the
sample of heaven" that it has to
show us in Russia. OF this paradise
we can gather an incomplete but IL
Illuminating picture from the recent
reports of Russian fugitives and from
the testimony laid before the Over
man investigating committee. "a
nightmare in a lunatic asylum, ca
bles a Geneva correspondent of the
New York Times, is the way Russian
fugutives who straggle into Switzer1
land describe life in Russia under
Lenine's rule. The people of Moscow.
we are told, are dying of starvation
and plague, and their number has
been reduced from 5000, 900 to L.
100000. And railways have stopped
running, making escape almost inn
possible. When horse dies in the
streets, according to this dispatch,
men and women fight with the dogs
for it's flesh, which they eat on the
spot, not having sufficient will-power
left to carry their booty home to
cook" Fear and famine" we read,
''have engendered a veritable cpl
demic of insanity, and maniacs Of
all kinds stalk raving through the
Streets In the maternity hospitals
go per cent. of the mothers die af-
ter childbirth, and infant mortality is
scarcely lower" In this tortured city,
which its inhabitants have cHfFstened
''The Graveyard" human flesh is
reported to have been sold as food.
This information says a Washington
of the New York
World, has been received by our State
Department. The plague that has the
city in its grip, says an Associated
Press dispatch. Is typhus, and there
are no medicines, no disinfectants.
and no soap with which to fight it.
According to this dispatch, which
quotes British business man just
returned from Moscow to Paris, rail-
way officials in Moscow recently or
dered the crowd out Of the Central
railway station to clean 1t and found
the bodies of five victims Of the typ
hus, which had been lying for days
among the peasants sleeping on the
floor, This man reports that "the
situation in Petrograd was said to be
worse,'' and dispatch from Bern
quotes an "official statement" that
during December and January nearly
100000 persons in Petrograd died
from hunger and disease" A furth-
er account of conditions in Bolshe-
yik Russia at the end of January is
supplied by an Omsk correspondent
of the London Times, who also gath
ers his information from refugees.
We read:
1.-THE situation in Moscow is de-
scribed as CHASTITY. All shops except
those maintained by the Soviet are
closed, and nothing is obtainable
without cards, only those associated
with the Bolshevik being able to OBJ
tain cards. People who stand aloof
from the BolsheViki suffer indescrib-
able hardships.
'It is impossible to estimate now
many are dying of starvation, but
everybody coming from Russia de-
clares that the Bolsheviki are delib-
erately endeayoring to exterminate
the educated classes. Prices in Mos
cow are fabulous and the sledge-
drivers decline to bulge under 200
rubles, where they would previously
have been content with 40 copecks
Goo copecks make 1 ruble.) Bred
costs 100 rubles (nominally fl0) a
pound, and clothes are unprocurable
at any price whatever.
MANY churches in Moscow have
been turned into theatres, and the
famous and sacred Strastnoi Mnoas-
tery has been transformed into g