Evening star., 1919-08-18
Bolsheviki Kill Many.

During the two months and half
that the bolshevist regime has bur-
dened this unhappy city the number
of executions seems to have attained
revolutionary tribunals at Ufa. as
elsewhere, have continued the COM
pIete determination of the bour-
geoisie as such. Men. women. chill
dren have been killed outside of the
city by the platoons of executioners.
some of the victims. A woman
named Scharofkina, at the approach
Of the Kolchak national army, mani
tested her satisfaction in an inti-
mate circle. She was denounced and
taken before a revolutionary tribunal
ments" and shot during the night.
A boy named Pountakof, sixteen
years old, had gathered printed leaf
lets which intrepid Cossacks had
thrown out in packages in passing
through a suburb. 1t seemed that
his comrades. He was Immediately
killed His parents recovered his
body and found the head pierced by
numerous bayonet wounds.
Reds Play Cruel Joke.
In order to test the Inhabitants the
red guards often played the follow
ing joke: They went into the houses
of the suburbs and demanded quar-
ters, saying, I'VE are the whites"
When the host responded. God be
thankedw he was shot. All of these
massacres were not the work of the
red army as such, but Of special
groups of bolsheviki forming a sort
of aristocracy of assassination.
After having mobilized the people
the commissioners perceived that they
were not able to count upon them
The lower classes did not partake OF
this hatred, this thirst for vengeance
against the bourgeoise which AMI
mated the exiles of yesterday. who
Therefore, special units were or
ganized and in all the military or
ganizations were men who could be
counted upon and who were named
communists. They are separately or
ganized, and this organization takes
red army receives $50 rubles ($175o
a month. The communist gets 500
rubles $4,000 a month. but his salary
increases easily if he knows how to
make himself useful, and the sum
may reach 5000 to 1000 rubles ($1.5o0
to $2.O0O). These men are better
clothed than the soldiers. One rec.
ognizes them often by their caps and
cloaks and in the uniform OF a SOL
dfer they control the officers In the
companies, battallOnS anu IeSHhcAeS'
with revolvers in hand. There are
those who incite to murder on grand
scale before the revolutionary tri-
bunals, urging the soldiers against
the arrested men.
Former Idealists Among Them.
Certain ofiicers who had served in
the bolshevist general stan told me
that this sort Of bolsheviki did not
form more than 10 per cent OF the
red army and that, what is hardly
believable, they were broken-down
idealists. The powerful position to
which they were raised and the re-
wards which their chiefs gave them
attracted volunteers. among them. so
I was told. being recognized a large
number Of former criminals. who had
taken part in all sorts of horrible
crimes. It is also these communiste
who form the shock units. armed With
extravagant numbers OF machine
guns, and who are now Joined to the
Russians, Magyars. Let's and Finns'
but the intelligent part, as is also
the case Of some of the royalfsts IN
Siberia, remains in the rear, holding
to the trains and not risking itself
In the yicissftudes of battle.