The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-07-02
THE HORRORS
OF BOLSHEVSM
Murders, Rapine and Phlage
the Cardinal Primo. 5al of
Those Who Want
To DESECRATE. AMERICA
TO DESECRATE AMERICA

John A Embry. the American con-
sui at Omsk, which is the capltal
city of the Kolchak government Oh
those parts of Russia not under Bol-
sheviki control arrived in New YORK
Yesterday and last night told the
ENew York Times the official story OF
what had happened in Siberia ano
Eastern Russia in the last eishl
months, during practically all or
which time he had meen IL charge
of American affairs in Kolchaks
capital city.
Mr. Embry said no language couio
picture the atrocities that has marx
| ed Bolsheviki rule in the terr1tor-
| les recaptured by Adlpiral Kolchak
a reign of terror that had been
| marked he declared, by murder, vio-
lation of women, theft and arson,
| perpetrated with cruelty and unpar-
alleled in the history of clvlllza-
| ton.
| "As to Bolshevism as it is enforced
| by Lenin and Trotsky, and those
L L
to prove what I am about to say,
said Mr. Embry, "and they are pic
lures taken by myself or by respon-
sible American Red Cross officials
The horrors these pictures reveals
came to light following the advance
of the Kolchak forces, an advance
that liberated from BolshvIki domin-
alton a strip of territory as long as
the whole Atlantic seabGa"d of the
United States.
"The first place I want TO men-
, ton the little city of Ufa. 1 visit
led this place Immediately after the
: 3ilsheviks withdrew before the KJl-
chak forces. My companion was the
) former Chief Judge of the Appellate
Court of that section, a man who
had lived in America who received
his law degree on one of our Amer
| lean colleges. This was Only a few
} weeks ago, and was only 4 short time
: before by departure from Omsl1 for
5 home.
5 1--WE were on our way to the Ufa
: front, which os the southern sector
S of the Siberian front, when we met
with the Judge whom L have referred
l Ufa had been liberated in March anC
t this was April. Tie Judge, by
: commission of Admiral llo.chaE wa:
, returning to reopen the courts o.
: the district and to re-establish Law
= and order. The Judge was one OF sew
t Ell who held office in the TIA dis
trict at the time the boishevik:
S gained control, and he was one .
: the three who escaped. Whrt ne
) came of the other four no man
have ever met was able to say.
Power of life and Death.
It $50 I went to Ufa and there
} made my own investigation as t
IL what HAD happened during the pei
q iod November 1918, to March 1915
e that the Bolshevists were in contro
- My first stop was at the little Cour
q try court house as we would ca
it here at home. There I talked wit
the people and learned that at SUI
set on the day that the Kolchak fol
ces withdrew, back in Novembe
theBolshivists had entered the city
:, The occupying force number abol
1900 men, a half regiment in othe
words, of criminals, mercenarie
and riff-raff, some in uniform an
some in civilian clothes.
= ''The first thing the Bolsheviks d.
was to loot the town and then tt
leaders met in the court house ar
organized their government, as the
called it. At the head of the govern
d ment they placed the most cruel al
es dutspoken of 'sthei leaders. The
ne then appointed comittees, one
them the so-cal1ed Extraordfnal
Committee on Investigation, a be
r te rname for which would have bet
the Committee on Executions.
Ir- thehead of this committee they a
d. pointed Lett, and this commit
was voted the power to put to dea
or any man, woman or child suspect
of being opposed to Bolshevisf, al
rs sentence could be and was pronoun
n ed without formaMty of trial.
lg. .'That very night the Extraordi
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