The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-17
ORGY OF MURDER AND PILLACE
 IN WILMA UNDER B0LSHEvIkS

CThe following despatch Is forward cd by the special correspondent or the Morning Post" London) and transmitted by a correspondent of the International News Bureau, Incl
 Wilma, via London. June 1o.-Before me as I am writing now there Is small gallery of photographs one photograph Is of a young man whose eyes have been gouged out; another of a. man-end there are certain little details which suggest that he might have been a most agreeable person the top of whose skull has been chop ped off another of one whose rect have been burned to stumps. and still another of a body which had not only been decapitated but from which one arm and both legs had been sever ed. There are other photographs In this selection too gruesome for even the slightest description. All are vic tirus of the Bolshcvist occupation of Wilma. and well attest the general character of the hundred and six days of that regime.
 It was on the night of January that the Bolshevists came into Wilma. That was four days after the Germans who had been in the city for nearly ten months, had withdrawn and set themselves up dlOhS AbcsA I<ovnoGrodno line The town had zone to bed that evening much as usual. but wondering somewhat Tvhy it was that the Polish troops, who har been expected to occupy the city dld not arrive. For some curious reason few persons seem to have considered seriously that it might be the Bolshe- yiks who would come; perhaps the ex- planation lies in the fact that the people could not bring themselves 10 believe that even the Germans could he guilty of so heart1ess a betrayal. However. it was the Bolsheviks who dtd come They reached the city be- tween Il and 12 o'clock that night going with the directness and decision of forehand knowledge straight to the well-to-do homes, rout- ing gentlefolk at the point of their bayonets'from their beds, seizing with greedy lmpatience such articles or value fhat they could discover lying abouS and generally institutins win Win out belay that reign of terror under whNh for more than three months ttk 10000 people left in Wilma liv-
 Murders and Executions
 Murders began from the very first. Indeed they began before the inVad- CTS actually reached the city, for a number of bourgeois were found upon their estates fin the pleasant country lying just northeast of Wilma ana were seized and killed by Bolshevist troops on their way to town. Take, for example, the case of a man named IJntules, who had a modest estate at Metszagola, through which the pres ent Bolshevist-Polish battle front runs. On the evening of the bth party of Bolshevists stopped at Un- tules' house and made a demand Tor some horses. Untules. thinking that Polish troops would presently arrive said that he had not got any horses. The Bolsheviks went to the stable, and finding several horses there, re- turned to the house, dragged Untules out. and murdered him in such a way that his wife was able to identlfy the body only by the clothing upon 1t.
 Once in the city the Bolsheviks made executions almost commonp- laces. Particularly for the rich death was decreed virtually upon any pre- text. Early in the Communist regime an edtct was issued requiring everyone to deliver to the auth horities all food that had come in their possession. In order to make sure of compliance house to house search was instituted. with the result that not a few we'll to- do persons, who had carefully seen that the community was heading straight for starvation, were caught. Between January 1 and February five persons were executed Tor 1ailure 10 comply with the Bolshevist food order and in addition no less than a dozen more were confined in the city prison. which. being a plague spot for typhus. was not very differ ont from a death sentence. Four or the persons so confined died as re- suit of their Imprisonment.
 Polish Officers Butchered.
 The savagery of tho Bolshevfks against any Polish officers whom they captured was almost incredible and this was particularly true with pris- oners of noble or land-ownins lam flies. There is one story which one hears in Wilma over and over again as A kind of epic of the city's hundred days It concerns the fate or two brothers manner Rosinay. whose fath- CT is a small landed proprietor near here One of the young men was captain in the Polish army, the other a lieutenant In some way during March both were captured. and after weary days of torture were finally put to death in n manner so stagger- ring to the mind that 1t Is utterly i'm possible to give even the smallest &C., count of the execution. Photographs of what remained of their mutilated bodies arc now in possession Of me. and 1t is inconceivable that even the Dark ages could have produced more revolting horror.
 One could continue this tale of mur- der and bloodlust almost indefinitely, piling name upon name, cate upon date. corroboration upon corrobora- tions It seems, however. hardly worth while to do so. because anyone who can make his way up over the long. slow irksome trek from Warsaw can build up the case as completely as he may wish. yhe fact of the matter Is that in viina-and Wilma is the first city occupied by the Bolshevtls in
 which 1t has been possible to make any direct investigatio tion-the Bolshe- viks not only treated human life as of not tho slightest moment, but in taking 1t had recourse to methods of cruelty and barbarity which seemed