Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
Special Correspondence

CoHceINeu uuflnS the lnqulSluon, is
contained in collection of reports
by British diplomatic representa-
tiNes in Russia, compiled to por-
tray the conditions in that country
during the Bolshevist regime of the
last two years, which has Just been
presented to Parliament by COM
mand of His Majesty King George.
The collection includes photo
graphs of unnamable atrocities and
the descriptions of the cruelties and
atrocious practices, the murder,
rapine, chaos and. starvation that
has prevailed in, the distorted
country since the rise of Bolshevism
are officially attested in all cases by
competent witnesses.
Cumulative evidence is presented
that a common practice during the
early days of the regime was the
wreaking of vengeance upon officers
of the Russian army by mailing the
shoulder straps signifying their
rank to their shoulders. Instances
of official medical proof that bodies
found terribly mutilated on battle
fields had been subjected to the
atrocities before life was extinct are
cited in several of the reports COM
prising the collection.
Germans Started Bolshcvism
British chaplain who watched the
advance of Bolshevism in the chaotic
country, "the rapidly accommodating
horrors were deliberately melted by
the secret German Bolshevist agents
in order that the advancing Aus
trian armies might not be met as
foes, but welcomed as deliverers
coming to save the people from
tyranny more brutal than anything
Russia had previously known. The
scheme was entirely successful, the
Austrian troops being received as
saviors."
Terrible in their description of the
suffering to which their authors
were subjected are letters included
from British and Russian subjects
made prisoners by the Bolshevists
during the process of or shortly aft
er their ascension to power. Un-
ina ginable cruelties and indignities
were heaped upon these prisoners,
many of whom were made captive
for no tangible offense to the chaotic
government, and majority of
whom eventually succumbed to pri-
vatiou, lack of food and the un-
speakable conditions they were
forced to endure.
Since the inception of the reign of
Red terror in Moscow unnumbered
thousands have been done TO death
by one form or another of inhuman
murder in that city alone, as is set
forth in the report of Secret Serv-
ice man who left that horror rid
den city December /, 1918.
Reports of Conditions
The report says:
'I can say that the number of
people that have been coldly done to
IN MnCpnur iC
thousands have been shot, but lately
those condemned to death were
hung instead, and that in most
brutal manner. They were taken out
in patches in the early hours of the
morning to a place on the outskirts
of the town, stripped of their shirts
and then hung one by one by being
drawn up at the end of rope until
their feet were a few inches from
the ground and then left to die.
The work was done by Mongolian
soldiers. Shooting was too noisy and
not sure enough. Men have crawled
away after a volley and others have
been buried while still alive. 7 was
told in Stockholm by one of the
representatives of the Esthonian
government that Is Russian officers
who We're taken prisoners at Pskoff
by the Red Guards were given over
to the Mongolian soldiers who sawed
them to pieces
In the Ural towns similar record
of inhumanity, blood lust and afro
city has been established by the
Reds. as shown by this extract from
Il report of the consul at Ekaterin-
burg under date of January IA,
1919:
"Officers taken prisoners by Boil
sheVists here have had their shoul-
der straps nailed into their shoul-
ders, girls have been raped, some of
the civilians have been found with
their eyes pierced out, others with
out noses, while twenty-five priests
were shot at Perm, Bishop Adron-
ick having been buried alive there"
And so through the voluminous
pages of the siXty-one reports COM
prising the collection occur any
number of absolutely authenticated
instances of the degeneracy into
which those sections of Russia
dominated by the Reds have fallen.
While many of the most revolving
portrayals are based on occurrences
during the early days of the Red
regime, it is indicated that the con-
dition has not to this time abated
TO any extent that would justify the
faintest hope of salvation for tho
ravished country until order is es
tablished through some agency other
than the Red government
a report from an agent who left
Petrograd during the latter days of
1918 sets forth that the carnage
in the big towns has somewhat
abated of late because of Lenine's
personal dislike for Red terrorism" i"
but that it is continuing in most of
the provinces and in some is actually
on the increase.
Outragcs at Perm
The following is from an account
of Investigations into BolsheVist ac-
tivities at Perm, which was sub
mitted as late as March {, this year:
Victims were frequently forced
To dig their own graves. Som etimes
the eXecutioners placed them fac
ing a wall and fired several revol-
their ears, killing them after a con-
siderable interval.
"Girls, aged women and women
enceintes were among the victims.
The case of Miss Bakouyeva is an
example. December, 1918, this nine
teen-y ear-old girl was accused of
espionage and tortured by being
slowly pierced thirteen times in the
same wound with n bayonet. She
was afterward found still living by
pet SAINTS, is now nearly cured and
has herself related her sufferings to
us"
1t seems inconceivable that any
pretense of government known to
have perpetrated any portion of the
outrages authenticated to the Red
mowers in Russia could exist for an
& Gpprcrlable time in a country of
aInp the ra west civilization This