The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-10-15

without question. The recent execu
lions carried out at Peter and Paul are
no bnger in ones and twos, but in
whole groups by special machine
gun detachment. The bodies are
mostly thrown into the Neva. Some
mos they are fshed out by militia
men. The militia now is armed with
old-fashioned carbines. All rifles sent
to the front also are reduced in num-
bers.
Passes Needed After II.
After II O'Clock none may leave the
house without pass signed by Peters.
and only given to conciliar workers on
night BUSINESS and agents of the ex-
traordinary commission, who form the
] sole night traffic in mOtorlOrries con-
Quoting perqusitions. These are so
thorough that If arms, even in hol-
Ster. are found concealed in garnet or
court, Jthe president of the house COM
mittee Is shot. The informant knows
case where a whole family was shot
Z because field glass case was found
in a fiat. The universal terror makes
/ the people repuse visitors even when
bearing help or letter, fearing to be
( compromised on counter-revolutionar
( denunciations. Jnkovelya, the 'notOri-
Gus murderess, chief Of the extraor-
binary commission, has gone to Mos
/ COW and has been replaced by an in
dividual hearing the alias "the bear"
In the army all officers without fami-
lies are dismissed from the higher com
mands and sent TO the rear. They are
replaced by men whose families have
( leen taken hostages. The wives and
families OF officers are kept in special
concentration camps near Moscow,
whittier they were dispatched last
week.
Many women have been shot when
their husbands We're suspected of coun-
ter-revolution. The officers are all dis
armed EXCEPT those known to be COM
munist party workers. Soldiers have
the right to shoot officers on the bare
suspicion of cOunter-revOlution.
4 The immediate cause for the in
crease in terror is the abortlve move
ment at Krasnavagora, engaging boil
Shevsts and inspiring them to devote
All their efforts to sutroot the White
organizations in Petrograd.
Among officers and workmen the boil
shevists are taking the opportunity to
arrest all foreigners remaining in
Petrograd, including women.
Allies Seem PowerIess.
There is terrible disilluslon in PetrO'
grad with the allies, who seem only to
threaten and unable to deal serious
stroke, thus allowing the thousands of
patriots to be slaughtered and lnflict-
ing mental torture. A month ago the
universal question in Petrograd was
"Will the allies give food If they take
the city," Now the question Of food
has ceased to interest, though starva
ton is at hand. The only question is
"Will the allies come quickly? If not
y then let them give over altogether. The
present state is unbearable 1t is bet
ter to die quietly of starvation than
thus be bounded TO DEATH"
Owing TO similr cause peasant ris
ings common as winter throughout the
country now are seldom. Owing ia
the frequency with which the peas
ants Joined the Whites, who afterward
retreated, all the peasant families were
slaughtered simultaneously.
Following the feverish efforts on the
part of the bolshevists to prepare
against thessurrender Of Petrograd on
the eleventh MS previously tclegraphed
The civil cvacuation was completed by
the tweaty secend All received ma
tellal mt the factories and military
4 sores Of secondary importance were
3 evacuated and all telephone commute
tors dispatched to Moscow, but on the
: nineteenth an order came from Mos
cow to evacuate only parts Of the ma
! chinery, not the benches and perma
aent fittings, reducing the extent of the
work of the chief commissary. A line
i trains is ready instantly to flee t.
10 Volga towns.
phalanx of picked agitators ha'
,ean brought to Petrograd for secre