The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-20

arrested, taken to the commissariat and
thence to the fortress of Peter and
Paul. where generally they are shot
without question. The recent execu.
lions carried out at Peter and Paul are
no longer In ones aud twos, but in
whole groups by a special machine
gun detachment. The bodies are
mostly thrown into the Neva. Some
times 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 H..
After IL o'clock none may leave the
house without a pass signed by Peters,
n 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 perquisitions. These are so
thorough that IL arms, even In q hol-
ster. are found concealed In garrett or
court, the president of the house COM
mittee Is shot. The informant knows
a case where a whole family was shot
because a field glass case was found
In a fiat. The universal terror makes
the people repulse visitors even when
bearing help or letter, fearing to be
compromised on counter.revolutionary
denunciations. Jakovelva, the notori-
Gus murderess, chief of the extraor-
binary commission, has gone to Mos
COW and has been replaced by an In
dividual bearing the alias "the bear"
In the army all officers without fami-
lies are dismissed from the higher conn
mands and sent to the rear. They are
replaced by men whose families have
been 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 were 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.
The immediate cause for the In
crease In terror Is the abortive move
mRnt at ~Krasnavagora, enraging boil
shevists and inspiring them to devote
all their efforts to outroot the White
organizations In P~etrograd.
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 disillusion In Petro-
grad with the allies, who seem only to
threaten and unable to deal a serious
stroke, thus allowing the thousands of
patriots to be slaughtered and infiict-
Ing mental torture. A month ago the
universal question In Petrograd was:
"Will the allies give food IL they take
the city?" Now the question of food
has ceased to interest, though starva-
ton Is at hand. The only question Is
"Wul the allies come quickly? If not,
then let them give over altogether. The
present state Is u~nbearable. 1t Is bet
ter to die quietly of starvation than
thus be bounded to DEATH"
Owing to similar cause peasant ris-
ings, common as winter throughout the
country, now are seldom. Owing to
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 the surrender OF Petrograd on
the eleventh. as previously telegraphed,
the civil evacuation was completed by
the twenty-sec0nd. All received ma
terial at the factories and military
stores of secondary Importance were
evacuated and all telephone commuta-
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-
nent fittings. reducing the extent of the
work Of the chief commissary. A lire
Of trains Is ready instantly to fee to
the volga towns.
A phalanx of picked agitators has
been brought to Petrograd for secret
propaganda against the patriotic Rus
sian government II the capital Is aban-
doned. Meanwhile the position of the
civil Inhabitants is desperate.
The Melodies railway has been en-.
tirely taken over for evacuation and
other military purposes. Passenger
traffic has been abolished; therefore
sackmen are unable to import the
scanty but essential contraband for
merly received In Petrograd.
The following were the prices ruling
last week: Butter. 20 rubles ($12.5O)
pound bread, As to 30 rubles ($2S.13-
potatoes. 20 ($12.5O); meat.
to 100 rubles ($56. 20 500. SOY ; sugar,
tea and coffee are unobtainable; 100
cigarettes cost $50 rubles ($93.75).
Many so-calied social living rooms. 9TH
erwise municipal soup kitchens, have
for want of provisions. Those
open give only slops; people 60 about
almost In rags.
1t Is estimated that 10000 rubles
x75 0n0l monfh1v i~ 70.