The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-07

| lum or criminal who CHANGED to be III
control Of the local soviet.
| Arbitrary arrests became the order
| Of the day, followed by summary exc
cutions, as well as the official ones
which occurred with appalling regular
ity and frequency. In the Cfimea, IN
the Caucasus, in the territory OF the
Don Cossacks, at Moscow and other
places the first class handed over to
the mob were the former officers and
the "intelligentsia" comprising the
learned professions and public officers.
At Odessa all officers, particularly
those of the feet, were hunted down,
dragged to the water front and thrown
into the sea, first having had weights
fastened to their feet so they could
not swim.
FOREST OF SWAYING BODIES
After the Germans took Odessa and
restored some semblance OF order,
woman whose two sons, former Russian
naval officers, had been thus drowned.
desired to have their bodies recovered
so she could give them a Christian
burial. She hired two divers TO go to
the bottom Of the harbor. One came
up with his hair turned gray from what
he found. The other came up, mad
man, constantly muttering: This is
how they are swaying."
He told of whole forest Of corpses
moving back and forward III the cur
rent down there.
At Rostov- ont he-Don, the Bolshevlki
shot all the students at the high school
because some of the students had join
ed KornilOv's forces. The mothers Of
some Of the boys tried to save them
aud were shot down too Those, who
survived published pitifnl protest
in the newspapers. For doing this, the
editors were forced to suspend publ
cation. ------. -
At Kiev, Bolsheyik patrols paced up
and down the street and shot people
who looked Suspicious to them.
Former army officers were shot down
in open places outside the city by
dozens as if they were game birds. d
At Petrograd and Moscow the Boil.
sheviks took especial glee in hunting
and killing the so-called "Yunkers."
These were the military cadets, the
future officers spf the army, who, as a
rule, were young students who had vol
unteered for one years service. They
were killed openly i'll the streets of
1'etrograd and their bodies tossed from
the bridges into the city canels.,
BOLSHEVIkI MASSACRlSS
! When the railroad station at Yeka-
tarinodar had been evacuated by the
Cossacks, the iBolsheyiki arrived and
! dren who were there waiting for a
train Sick or wounded soldiers, who
were undergoing Treatment in various
hospitals for disease or wounds COLI
tracted or received in the days when
Russia fought Germany, were dragged
out of their beds and shot in the street.
BOlshevik soldiers exacted what they
pleased alike from the rich and the
:! small property holders. They took cat
tie from the land owner and supplies
from the shopkeepers. Employees and
clerks were encouraged to demand from
their employers so-called back pay
which was really raises in pay for
years ago that they gave themselves.
If a man had been getting two dollars
a. day and estimated that he should
have gotten ten, he simply claimed
eight dollars per day back pay and
the so-called arbitration commissions
always granted his claims.
| The Bolsheviki abolished existing
courts without replacing them with any
other machinery for handing out real
and orderly justice. "'&'
This reign Of terror, which still OK
lists, was fomented, encouraged and paid
for by German agents. It was the cen
trail empires which profited by it, while
there were such things rs empires. In
fact, Bolshevism delayed the inevitable
fall Of the Huns. It delayed the in.
! evitable victory Of the allies. q
Bolsheyism destroyed the last YES
tige Of armed resistance to Germany
Oh the Russian front. It demobilized