The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-01-28
ALLIES ARREST
RUSSIAN REDS
Rendezvous Raided-- Japanese
Clash With Bolshevist
Forces.
DEATH STALKED STREETS
OF Perm Under Terrible Red
Regime-City Captured by
Gen, Gaida.

Krasnoyarsk, Central Siberia, Jan.
27.-(A. P.)-Allied military authori-
ties have raided a bolshevist rem
devious here and have arrested the
leaders. Important documents were
seized.
Cossaeks Captured.
Vladivostock, Saturday. Jan. 1S.-
"a. P.)-Japanese troops at Mazo-
nova, on the Zeya river, north OF
Blagoyestchensk, have clashed with
bolshevist forces numbering about
1000 according to reports received
here. The Japanese lost two killed
and eleven wounded in the en-
counter.
Russian police agents had arrested
several bolshevists and taken them
to Mazonova,. but the people or tnat
village who are said to be pro-boishe-
visit, are reported to have attempted
to rescue the prisoners. japanese
forces Joined in the fighting which
lasted several hours. Seventeen Co.'S
sacks are reported to have been cap
tured by the bolshevists and two jap
anese were drowned while trying to
swim across the Zeya river.
= No Babies Left Alive.
Omsk. Central Siberia, Friday, Jan.
TIA. P.)-Death stalked the
streets of Perm until the city was
captured by Gen. Gaida, according TO
the official report of an investigator
who has Just returned from the Ural
front. So terrible were the con-
ditions under the bolshevist regime
that the frightened people of Perm
have not yet recovered. 1t is saio
the few pedestrians encountered
there were emaciated, with livid lips
and a. constant nervous trembling OF
the head and hands. There are no
children less than a year old in Perm.
all having died, says the report, which
adds that in three months the whole
population would probably nave
perished.
The report states that the bolsne-
visits regarded all bourgeois lnhapi
tants of the city, even those rulheu
and diving, as outside the law. WHEN
the iail was overcrowded the IN,
mates who had been lmprisoifeu
longest were shot to make room ioI
the newcomers, 1t Is declared. !nele
are well authenticated cases Oh vi
ture. according to the report wnlou
saws some of the condemned we
compelled to dig their own sraS.s
; and ,rehearsals of executions Wsls
sfneed during the hours before the
Soomed people were put to death Men
were plunged into water until nearly
drowned and were then reViVeu ~
4heir torture could continue "h"s
some prisoners were buried alive a.
others were mutilated, the repoIe
states. Women were forced 10 uis
.ranches. were often hogged anu
sonetime, even killed, it Is said.
Peasants were forbidden last June
IN take provisions into the CITY.
Some people hidfsupplies but these
were found and seized by the poisne.
visits who spread terror throughout
tho whole region near Perm.
Advices received from Tomsk STATE
that bolshevists began an insured.
tion about twenty miles west OF that
nlace anc set up a government put
n,ore attacked and defeated with
boavv casualties by patrols from
Tr,xutsk on New Years. There are
few fears of new bolshevist upr
rising. v.nL.
Archanpel. Monday, Jan. 2T.-tA'
S--Bolshevik forces failed In an at
tempt last midnight to drive Amerl-
can and British troops from their po-
sitions at Tulgas, on the DVli,a .S
southeast of Archangel. Earner the
enemy had bombarded the posltiohs
with artillery.