Arizona republican., 1919-04-16
RED \ REPORTS UGLY BRUTALITY
 OF BOLSHEV|K|
Entire Town Denuded of Priests Fearfully Treated-Women Threat
 ened Who Appeal for Illus
 bands and Sons-Cities Pillaged- Plunder Wasted

OMSK, Saturday, April 15.-(By The Associated Press)-Indisputabl evi- dence of the massacre by the bolsheviki of more than 1000 civilians, in and near the town of Osa, has been obtained by Messrs Simmonds and Emerson and Dr. Rudolph T. Eusler, of the American Red Cross, who have just returned from Perm, Osa and other Russian ter ritory. Approximately 300 persons were killed at Osa and 1,500 in the sur rounding districts.
 Osa, which has population of 10000 was so denuded of males by the bol- shevil1i, that General Casagrande, upon the occupation of the town, was obliged 10 telegraph to Yekaterinburg for men to administer civic affairs.
 In addition to securing verbal and documentary evidence, the Red Cross officials witnessed the exhuming of scores of victims from trenches. The murders were without provocatiOn, and the victims were largely of the thrifty and intelligent classes or servants of the church. The evidence discloses al- most unthinkable atrocities. A man was shot because he lived in a brick house All attorneys and jurists were killed and doctors, whose services were not required for the moment, were disposed of in a similar manner.
 Appeals for Husband
 A woman whose husband and two sons had been seized, applied to the commissioner for information as tC their fate. She was told they had been taken to Perm. After repeating hel visit several times, she was informed that if she bothered the commisial again, she would be shot as they were A wife requested to pay a thousand rubles for the release of her husband borrowed eight hundred and paid il over; later she returned with the re mainder and then was informed that her husband had been shot. There were scores of similar cases.
 The soviet called a meeting and pre- pared lists of those to die. The houses prescribed were visited by squads, tht doors were smashed in and the victims dragged to the edge of the town anC forced to dig their own graves Thost resisting were shot in the streets.
 A survivor testified that he had seer men thrown into pit and buried alive
 Priests BrutaIly Treated
 The bolshevild attitude toward the church was uncompromising. Priest. were hunted unmercifully. The eVi- dence showed that men were slair whose only offense was that they worked as seXtons or caretakers O churches.
 In the Perm district, everything O value was stolen from the churches In some places, the schools continue but religious teaching is barred branches of study being dependent upoI committees of the pupils.
 Careful inquiry, the American ob servers say, show that there was noth ing constructive in any town unde bolsheviki control. Money and proper ty were requisitioned and extravagantl dissipated by individuals without ac counting. The hospital at Perm wa short of doctors. Out of five, two wer killed and two were taken away.
 It is reliably related that theoretica holsheviki, drafted into the new Rus sian army, who went to the front ut tering threats that they would refus to fight against their brother bolshevik were disenchanted on witnessing tn results of the bolshevilli occupation, an developed into the most ardent enemie of the bolsheviki.