New-York tribune., 1919-07-01
Harmless Peasants Slain by
Thousands and Girls
Subjected TO lndignitics,
Says John A. Enbry
Brings Back Photos
1000 Murdered III Ossa
Alone; PopuIacc Shot
and Skulls Are Crushed

atrocities that the Bolsheviki troops
have inflicted upon the helpless popu-
fation of Siberia we're related by John
a. Embry, United States Consul at
Omsk, who arrived in New York yes
.erday.
Rape, murder, arson and other crimes
are attributed TO the Reds by the con-
sui, who obtained his information in
many instances from ovcvitnesses.
AS to Bolshevism as it is enforced
under Lcnine and Trotzky," he said, II
nave photograph TO prove what | am
about to say. And they are pictures
taken by myself or by responsible
American Red Cross officials"
Tells Of Atrocities
Mr.. Embry visited the city of Ufa
shortly after ii had been redeemed by
kolchak from the Bolshevik army,
which held ii from November. 1918, to
March, 1919. Under the Red EXtraordi-
nary Committee which was the so-callod
governing body of the town, atrocities
were committed that outdd Belgium:
He sai'':
"A day or two after we arrived at
ia our attention was attracted by
crowds of people journeying in the d-
iSStioH VI ldfSc nNlCD OF WOOCS.
These persons. discovered. were the
relatives and friends of scores OF men
and women and children who had met
death or had disappeared during the
Bolshevik control.
'The SHOWS which had covered tho
ground during the winter had begun to
melt, and melting disclosed the secret
of the disappearance OF scores OF in
nocent peorle. among them women and
girls, the latter of tender years. The
Bolsheviki had taken these people from
their homes and then driven them into
the woods and murdered them They
were executed at short range, their
bodies being horribly mangled. and in
some Instances their skulls were
crushed in with clubs.
Here have a picture that shows
twenty Of these corpses. among them
that of q seventeen -year-old girl This
picture myself took in the woods
near Ufa. Here is another picture that
shows another batch Of unfortunates
whose only offence was antl-Bolshe-
vism and whose death sentences were
executed in the woods on the Ufa front
Many Boys Killed
"At what was once the Ufa High
School ] talked with woman who had
been teacher there when the Bolshe-
visits entered. When the Bolsheviki
came they lined Up all the boys, the
little ones as we'll as the big ones. and
questioned them as to their sympathies.
All who werc not killed were put TO
work of tire most menial kind, and the
larger boys. aga sst whom there was
suspicion that ssey might be anti
Bolshevik. and therefore soon eligible
flor service under Admiral Kolchak,
tol. -l,c4
The girls in the school ware ordered
to serve in the barracks of the Boil
shevik soldiers, their taskmasters ours
ing and heating those who we're not
blessed with good looks. AS for the
good-looking girls. to use the words Of
their former teacb%r, they suffered in
suits Of the most horrible nature She
was too modest to go flto details, but
we who heard understood.
"The Extraordinary Committee also
named great number Of hostages. and
after subJecting them TO the most hor-
rlble treatment ended their suFerings
by killing them and throwing the bodies
INTO the river. When ! was told the
story OF VIVA, happened 10 these hos
tages Il was so terrible that could no.
bring myself 70 believe, and then the
SHOWS melted and saw the peor.e
searching among the bodies in the
woods for relatives and friends, and
then knew that there was nothing too
horrible to be true go far as the Bol-
sheviks who had control there was con
cerned-
1000 Slain in Ossa
That is, in brief, the story oe
some Of the horrors that we're pcrpe-
trated in Cfa- 1t is the story that IS
paralleled IN practically every detail
oy what happened in other cities and
towns in the liberated areas, the worst
atrocities. IS the evidence shows, being
committed Just before the Bolshevik!
evacuated before the Kolchak advance
"Anotner town that suffered in a de-
gree that no words can describe was
Ossa, city Of about 10000 inhabitants,
Ossa was also in the territory liberated
from Lenine-T rotzky domination by Kol-
chak- There again the melting SHOWS
disclosed terrible and heartbrcahiny
story. In Cfa the number Of murdered
people, whose fate was established when
the SHOWS melted, vas not more than
200, but in Ossa the number was moro
than 1000 and 4 Photographic record Of
this atrocity was made by Colonel Tcu
ser of the American Red Cross Mission
to Siberia and mas probably already
reached the tilts OF the govcrnment IN
Washington.
kurgan is cty Of perhaps $4,000
people. Il, too, was one of the cities
liberated by the kolchak advance. ]!
officially know It 20 be fact that
while in control Of that city the Bol-
shevikl murdered at one time that is
at a single wholeaale execution moro
than 1900 citizens of that place In
our American Consulate at OYnsk we
have employed a young woman Of The
finest character who is "A native Of
KurYan and who was there during the
period that the BolshcYi\i were in CON
trol.
Fiancc IL Slain
This young woman was engagcd TO
MARY d young Russian, "A splendid fel-
low, ~ho had worked hard all hs life
and had neycr harmed IL human being.
ThiB young man came under the eus-
piclon Of She Extraordinary Committee
for Invea'lRation and was ordered cx-
ecutcd. In his CAKE they shot him
and then severed the mead from the
body. The head was found by friend,
who TOOK it 10 the girl, who ia now
in The American Consulate at OYnsk
She buried it in the bach yard u wha.
once was her home.
"Another woman brow Who wns
also in Jail during the polahcv.h occu-
patton Of Cfa Province war u Nine.
Dem nctriey. she ran xix men lashed TO-
gether in pairs and then hauled III 20
he cemetrf, who're thief we're backed