The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-03
B0L LSHEVIkI LEFT DEAD LIE
 IN STREETS OF B|ELEBEI
Refugees Find Homes Wrecked and Relatives Missing
 on Return to Town.

Bielebei. European Russia, Via vladivostok - Correspondence of The Associated Press)-The reign of the Bolsheviki passed over the people of Bielebei like a scourge. The BoI- sheviki occupied Bielebei for several months.
 The correspondent of The Asso- ciatcd Press visited the town within a fortnight after their evacuation. The people were Just beginning to readjust their domestic and govern mental affairs. Refugees were re- turning to view the wreck of their homes They were veritable wrecks for the Bolsheviki had occupied all vacated houses and had carried away or destroyed most of their contents An elderly judge of the district court, Professor Paul Blumenthal, long a resident of the United States, who left upon approach of the Bol- sheviki, was SO overcqIne with grief over tho fate of his native town that he wept.
 Many persons had disappeared and 1t was well known that many had been murdered. The corpses of vic tins are being discovered. The cor respondent followed stream of men, women and children which flowed out across the fields toward the edge of a scraggly wood. There under the overhanging bank on the edge of a gravel pit they were lying. A tangled heap of bodies, apparently as they fell or had been thrown, with no attempt at burial.
 Tho bodies were mostly those of young or middlcaged workmen- From each the boots and most of the outer .r- A the skulls were crushed. of others the faces were disdgured as though by gunsh ot at close range.
 The crowd on the bank above the grewsome pile appeared fascinated. They silently made way for a group of Americana including Consul Embry, from Omsk, and two corre- spondents. and watched with inter est while they photographed the vic tims.
 A nicely dressed woman and little girl walked into the pit to get a bet ter look at the figure of a blond young girl partly uncovered close un- der the bank.
 The body was perfectly preserved by the cold and lay with arms bare and crossed ss though the girl might have been sleeping. The face. which was not disflEured. was that of an intelligent, pretty girl. Toward dusk the body was removed by relatives who had come from Ufa. She was High school girl from that town who had been abducted by the Bolshevik comnissar when Cfa was evacuated. Close by was the body of another woman.
 When the BoIsheviki entered Bic lebei the government of the town was taken over by a Revolutionary Committee of Communists" There was formed "Committee of Investi- Welt. a Lett. One of the first acts of this committee was to shoot the pres idont of the former local county The latter was i'll at the time and had to be carried out to his death in chair. Twenty men were shot and priests. A member of the Investi- gating Committee boasted that he shot one priest because he was too long over his prayers while the com mitteemen waited to take him.
 High school boys and girls and priests were compelled to clean the streets Women of the Intelligent zia" were made to clean the floors and walls of barracks occupied by Bolshevik troops.
 Mime. Roshneyikon, owner of tho most imposing residence in the town, was arrested. Her daughter, seeking her release. was told that the charge against her was a secret After