White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-07

- AAAAgI A181AHtIH IL IAfEHA EAftA
tons carried ont al Peteriaad Paul are
no longer IN ones and twos. but in
whole groups by a special machine
gun detachment. The bodies arr
mostly thrown into the Neva. Some
times they are fs%ed out by militia
men. The militia noFg is armed with
oId-fashioned carbines. All rifles sent
To the front also are reduced In num-
hers.
Passes Needed After II.
After II O'Clock none may leave the
house without a pas signed by Peters.
and only given Ia conciliar workers on
night business and agents NJ the ex-
%traordinary commission, who form thu
Quoting perquisitions. These are 81
thorough that if arms, even in n h0l-
ster. are found concealed IN garnet or
court. the president of the house com
mittee is shot. The informant knows
a ca<e where a whole family vas shot
because n field glass ease Vas found
in n fiat. The universal terror makes
the people repulse visitors even when
bearing help or letter. fearing Ia be
compromised on counfer-revnlufiouary
d-ennnciations. Jakoyelva. the notori.
Gus murdereSS. chief Of the exfraOr-
binary commission. has gone 10 Mos
cow and has beer replaced By an in
dividual bearing the alias "the bear
In the army all officers without FAINT
lies are dismissed from the higher com
mands and nj to the rear. They are
replaced by men whose families have
been taken hostages. The wives and
families Of officers are kept in special
concentration camps near Moscow.
whittier they were dispatched last
week.
Many ON have been shot when
their husbands were suspected IF coun-
ter-reyolution. The officers are all dis
armed except those known to be COM
muniSt party workers. Soldiers have
the right to shoot officers on the bare
suspicion Of counter-reyolution.
The immediate for the in
crease in terror is the abortiye move
ment at K~rasnavagora. e%nraging boil
sheyists and inspiring them to devote
all their efforts 10 outroot the White
organizations in Petrograd.
Among officers and workmen the boil
sheyists are taking the opportunity To
arrest all foreigners remaining in
Petrograd. including women.
Allies Seem Poweriess.
There is terrible disillusion in Petro-
grad with the allies. who seem only to
threaten and unable to deal n serious
stroke. thus allowing the thousands of
patriots to be slaughtered and infict-
ing mental torture. A month ago the
universal question In Petrograd was:
~Wi1i the allies give food IL they take
the city?' Now the question Of food
has ceased to interest. though starva-
ton Is at hand. The only question Is /:
"Will the allies come quickiyg II not.
then let them give over altogether. The
present state is unbearable. II is bet
ter to die quietly of starvation than
thus be bounded to death"
Owing to similar cause peasant ris-
ings, common as winter throughout the
country. now are seldom. Owing to
the frequency with which the peas
ants Joined the Whites. who afterward
r~etreated, all the peasant families were
slaughtered simultaneously.
Following the feverish efforts on the
part of the bolshevists to prepare
against the surrender Of P~etrograd on
the eleventh. ~ previously ~teIegraphed.
the civil evacuation was completed by
the twenty-sccond. Al received ma
terial at the factor p and military
stores of secondary Importance were
evacuated and all telephone commute
tors dispatched to Moscow, but on the
nineteenth IN order came from Mos
COW to evacnate ONLY parts Of the ma
chinory, not the benches and perma-
nent fittings. reducing the extent of the
work of the chief conimissny. A line
of trains Is ready instantly 10 fee 10
the Volga towns.
A phalanx of picked agitators has
been brought to petrograd for secrei