Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
BOLSKEv|ST FORCE
TAKESF|VE TOWNS
Holy War Against Poland
Claimed to Justify
Assassination.
TALES OF TERROR TOLD
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, January 70
The German military command In an
nouncing the capture of Mitau by the
bolsheyiki. said that the advancing
Russians also had occupied BoheiJani,
Seamless, Tulkum and f3aldsltAsa In the:
region west and southwest of Riga.
SfSw-up at Polish BordSr.
WARSAW. Saturday. January Is Cby
the Associated Pressl.--Bolshevis
troops have slacaened their advance
at the Polish frontier. The Germans
are delaying their evacuation OF
Grodno for several days. although
Gen. Falkenhayn has retired to Su-
walki and Gen. Hoffman has gone TO
Koenigsberg.
Polish leaders allege that Germans
are selling arms to the bolsheyists
under the pretense of aiding the So
ciety for Provisioning Ukraine" In
Lithuaffa and Ukraine the bolshe-
visits are Issuing proclamations that
they have come to restore order. DIS
visit soldiers have been seen carry
ing banners inscribed with the words.
"Long live the red terror" and Death
to non-workers."
PAY Fines in Terror.
Men have been arrested at Wilma
and other places and have been re-
leased later. it is said, on payment
of sums ranging from SO to $4,000
rubles, the size of the ransom being
in proportion to the terror of the
victim and his power to pay. The
bolsheyists are especially bitter
against the Poles, it being. reported
that the declaration of holy war
against Poland by the Moscow gov
eminent makes 1t right and duty of
every bolshevist to kill the Poles as
enemies of mankind" There are
fewer burning houses than formerly,
but it is charged that where houses
are spared their inmates are slain
1--WE have saved the nest but destroy
ed the BIRDS" is a remark attributed
to one bolshevist leader.
Miss Shebeko, a sister of member
of the imperial council. succeeded IN
escaping from Mohilev and has reacned
aged aunts, were driven from their
home, which was turned over to
neasants They were allowed one tiny
room, from which the lock of the
door had been removed. lew DTS OF
furniture were given them, she says
with the admonition: You must un-
derstand that this belongs to the ma
ton" They considered themselves
fortunate. as many of their neighbors
were massacred. she declared. Two
brothers living in Serdowski were tor.
tured to DEATH, and their wives and
little children were mutilated, accord
ing to her story.
Wore Epaulets; Murdered.
The officer of the Polish legion, who
went to visit Serdowski, is alleged to
have been murdered because he wore
epaulets, which are forbidden by the
bolshevists Miss Shebeko says that
this murder aroused the indignation
of certain Jewish members of the
local soviet She says the sentence
was fiually approved when it was
learned that the officer knew how to
read and write. One of the speakers
at the hearing was reported to have
declared: There will be perfect
equity in the world only when nobody
knows how to read and write
Miss Shebeko says that many Well
bred women in Russia have COM
,nitted suicide through fear of out
rage. Many of those escaping from
the country are disguised in old
clothes and hide the marks of refine
ment on their hands and faces with
dirt.