The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-19
Schmidt, Leader Of
 Bavarian Socialists.
 DelineateS Red Acts
DESCRIBES THE MANNER IN WHICH THE RED GUARDS TREATED THEIR PRIS-
 ONERS-HELD AS A HOSTAGE

[ was wearing a brown suit crrrnpled up from lying on the straw bed. and silk socks and patent-leather shoes He wore no collar and his shirt was open at the throat.
 This man replied, I've been in the | movement from the beginning, and have done as much for it the peo- | pie who lave shut us up here.' The two are Communists who would not submit to the new masters. The plump Berliner made a careful toilet
 After he had washed himself, he care i fully brushed his thin, blond hair before a pocket glass, put on a collar | that was badly soiled during his long confinement, and pulled on a gray l jacket.
 On one of the other beds near a
 window lay a slender young fellow | with great horn spectacles. He wore a dark ragged suit out at the elbow. l This is the Prince of Thurn and Taxis
 who had been mistakenly taken for son of the ruling prince. Another | prisoner, Q police official, states that l he has been under arrest since Sun | day night For the first day and night l he was kept in a damp, cold cellar and is now glad to be in a warm room and have a bed to sleep on. It is now six o'clock. The two cavalrymen must go and get break fast, accompanied by a Red Guard.
 It consists of a big pot of coffee and | thick slices of bread. The only drink ing cups are dirty tin soup plates and the coffee is dealt out in beer glasses. Each prisoner gets a big piece of bread and as much coffee as he wants. With the bread a few spoon- fuls of blueberry marmalade are serv- ed.
 After breakfast an investigation
 committee appears. There is an edu-
 cated gentleman in uniform, with a
 sm oothly shaved countenance and
 carefully combed black hair He is
 accompanied by a civilian. They ask
 the young slender soldier, who they
 arrested as he was coming to Munich in an automobile, how strong the Prussian forces are and what their position is. The young man replied with reserve. He belonged to the peo- ple's guard organized at Regenberg, and is not an officer The officers H- cense taken with him is not his own. All he knows is that troops have ar rived from the north in armored trains. How many there are and
 where they are located, he cannot
 say. And how was it with the false
 stamps?'
 They addressed these worcs to gentleman about fifty years old. in
 a tourists suit with knee brooches and long stockings. This and another young man belonged to a Turnveretn in whose quarters the forged stamps of the Soviet Government were found. They insist upon their innocence Now sentries bring a circular let A-.v- T frTTl--
 Prussia are at the gates of the city
 They have set a price on the heads of the Red Guards
 This is the signal for a bitter storm
 of abuse for the 'Nosze Bloodhounds'
 An excited sentry, with long, point ed nose, is especially violent. We
 shall all be shot Every Red Guard and every worker caught with weap- ons in his hands Is to be shot by the Prus5ians; but they haven't got us yet. We will sell our lives dearly. We shall not surrender anybody, and if | the Soviets surrender, we'll fight to | the last man; but before that we'll shoot everyone who opposes us For every Red Guard we'll put twenty bourgeoisie up to the wall and shoot ] them down. We still have the power ] If we are to be defeated, we shall be 1 the last to die. They can kill us, but l they cannot kill our cause That will | live. Then it will go badly with the l White Guards. We are just. We hold an investigation first. We do not at tack the innocent. The red soldier wouldn't do that, but a man who has i fought aganst us must know what he has done. You two Noske dogs (ad- i dressing himself to the two Prussian cavalrymen), you'H soon get what's | coming to you.
 | The time passes slowly. The in | junction of silence, which was impos- l cd upon us when we entered the room | is tacitly lifted.
 ! At one of the sentry tables a lit- i tie civilian, who looks like a Slav and | wears the sign of the Red Cross on | his coat lapel. tells how he fought | for the Bolshevik in Moscow and i Petrograd.
 | The Prince. the parlor Communist, | and the fat Berlin fellow sit down to 0 game of cards.
 Two new prisoners are brought in. | They have just been seized on the l street. One is a boy about twenty | years old, with q bright velvet hat, | who trembles all over. and the other | a man in middle life The first is aiIeg- | ed to have said when he read the lat ! est proclamation on the Soviet, to the | effect that the White prisoners would | be shot that he could not believe it. 1 Thereupon, he was arrested on the ! spot, although he showed that he ] was a member of a pea sant council | and accordingly a supporter of the | Soviet Government. The other had | picked up a handbill dropped by an ! aviator from Augsburg and conceal
 ed it, to give 10 friend who was
 collecting handbiils.
 About ten o'clock all of the pris- . Oncrs from our room were taken into ! the courtyard of the school building . where we were forced to look on . while the two caValrymen were lined
 up against the wall that ran along . the side of the court, and shot by a ! volley fired by some twenty Red ! Guards one seemed to be killed al ! once. the other moved a little after ! falling. For that reason some more
 shots were fired at him. Then the
 lurterers stepped up to their vic ims, to see if they were dead. They hot one of them ones again from he immediate vicinity, as he seemed 70 give some signs of life.
 We watch while the corpsss are