The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-07
DENIKIN'S CAPTURE OF KEPT
 BROUGHT "RED' TERROR TO END
Bolshevists' Occupation of Russian Stronghold . Marked By Cruelest Murders Carried Out on
 Wholesale Scale.

Polish cooperation with Deniken, which may be assumed now that Deniken's attitude towards the Poles has been for the first time definitely disclosed, will also in all probability mean the speedy ending of the chaos in the Ukraine, and, more import ant still, at least one friendly bond between Poland and the new Russia now struggling into existence.
 Kieff went through a terrific or deal during the Bolshevist occupa- tion. Nominaiy, the chief Bolshevist Commissary was Bulgarian nam ed Rokowsky, who had obtained Roumanian citizenship, but he was an indolent, foppish, dissipated man, who cut Q ridiculous figure, and was without influence or authority The real control of the city was in the hands of three distinct bodies, that 5 to say, three committees set up by the direction of the Moscow Gov ernment in order to combat the coun- ter revolution. These were known as Chresvecvhaynas, and it was a Ches- vechayna that dealt with all the cases in which strangers had fallen under suspicion Another dealt with the Ukraine, and the third with Kieff proper. In point of fact, the commit tee which dealt with strangers did little, and the Ukraine committee dealt with the less important cases, leaving most of the work of impos- ing the Red Terror upon the city of the so-caled Kieff committee, which was presided over by a man named Latsts, brother-in-law of the mo- torious Peters, who was entrusted by 2 Suppressing the counter revolution in Petrograd. It is Impossible to say now many persons in all were exc cuted by order of the three Kieff committees, but the number was probably between two and three thousand. though some say the fig ures were at least double that esti- mate. In the operating theatre of hieff University more than a thous- and bodies were found, as was informed by Dr. Dietrichs, Professor of Surgery of the University.
 GhastIy Story.
 In the rear yards of the houses used by the various Chesvechaynas several hundred corpses have been dug up. It Is possible to make an exact count up to about fiften hun dred executions. The method of exc cution, as a rule, was shooting. al- though several instances of post mortem examinations showed that death had been caused by striking the victim over the heart with some heaVy, sharp instrument that left a deep, ugly hole in the-body. The Chesvechaynas all employed differ ent forms of torture Apart from beatings, which were frequent, it was common to make men and women who had been arrested view the ex- cautions. talked in Kfeff to no less than five persons who had been fam c1fuIfy accused and compelled to uu- derso that experience But even more horrible were two other forms or torture. A man would be condemn ed to death and taken out for exc cutton. a shot would be fired close to his head and then the agent of the Chesvechaynas would announce: No, we won't shoot you today. hut will postpone 1t till tomorrow ' Again, people were commonly lock- ed up for one. two, or three nights in succession in a small room with the bodies of others who had been shot.
 [ talked to a young woman about 1 twenty-fivesyears of age, named Vas | ilyra, whose husband was executed