Evening star., 1919-09-01
TERROR IN ODESSA PICTURED
BY ONLY SURVIVOR OF RAID
Murders Laid to Door of French and Rus
sian Officers by Man Who Fled Just
Before Ten Were Killed.

! the walls, but We will find.
"On Comrade Labourbe they found
various papers. copy of the Com
munist in the French language. var
! ious notes, etc They found two
notes on me. One officer said to a
general: Certainly this is the whole
gang All the things that were taken
away from US were put together. The
money was put into the pockets, and
| the other things into a basket which
| was carried to the Office of the secret
| service. Then they went into the
barn, broke open the lock and, finding
there bolshevist literature of last
year, said: 'Rascals. they must have
brought this literature from Moscow.
| Gessia answered: This is literature
of last year. Everybody was calm.
except the old woman. They replied:
| We are no fools. We see that this is
| fresh literature
Man Is Beaten in House.
| after the house was sealed. The
! old woman was taken on cab and
we were driven along Pushkinkaya
\ to military headquarters. We were
J taken up to the third floor. seated
| within three feet of one another The
! woman's hands were united. but ours
were left bound. Then a French SOL
dier-communiSt, two women and three
| men who had been arrested before
Us, were leu Oul HtH ELHS
was examined and beaten. He was
so knocked about that he came out
all in blood. Then another prisoner
was taken and also savagely beaten.
Then an officer appeared at @ the
door and bs Sssdtsd sssSsT q, NE Teneb Msne
group, who was called to be exam
ined, was SO brutally beaten that the
old woman Lehman tainted. Another
woman said: This is worse than un-
der the old regime One of the Of
ficers shouted: Silencer We will
give you freedom. Threats and fists for
you, revolutionary scoundrels.
Says French Are in Command.
when I asked a colonel why the
prisoners were beaten, he answered:
don't know. / have nothing to do
with this. Here the French are COM
manding.' At this. one of the French
officers approached, struck me twice
in the face and shouted: Silence"
Shvetz. who was also beaten. my
turn arrived. I entered the examina-
tion room. There, at the table, sat a
red. old man of about fifty or sixty, who
was the examiner, and two French
officers. On the left there were seated
two aristocrats, and in the rear there
were standing four or five Russian
and French officers. My hands were
bound. The following inquiry took
place:
Try to Terrify Serb.
"'who are you?
"I am a Serb
"You are a scoundrel, not Serb
! "I am not a scoundrel, mind you,
| but 1 am a Serb
He shouted at me: Don't yell,
You are taking too much liberty
answered that 1 had no one to fear.
"I will give you five minutes
time. If you are an honest Serb, you
ought to tell US. what in common
you have with these French and this
gang. Remember, that we freed you
from the Germans. the enemies of
Serbia
Thank you. messieurs officers I
answered. for your freeing us.
What scoundrels. I said to myself.
Unfortunately l can tell you nothing,
even if you gave me, not five. but ten
or twenty minutes time. You will
get nothing out Of me. and il you
want to kill me. then take pistol or
a knife and slay me like dog.
"The French officers said that they
would not beat me, and 1 was led into
another room where those who had