Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-06
lSHEV|KI OF
 RUSSIA RAPE, ROB, MURDER
Iors of Reign Shown by the
 |ful Experience of Town of
 Bielebei.

Pespondence of Associated Press) |hebel, European Russ.a, May
 Via Vladivostok, June 2.)-The
 of the bolsheviki passed over eople of Bielebei like a scourage boIsheviki occupied Bic ebei for hl months.
 correspondent of the Associa- (ress visited the town within a
 ght after their evacuation. The were just beginning to read their domestic and government Hairs. Refugees were return view the wreck of their homes.
 were veritable wrecks for the eviki had occupied all vcecated
 Is and had carried away CT de- ed most of their contents. An
 y judge of the district court, |ssor Paul Blumenthal, long resi-
 of the United States, who left
 approach of the bolsheviki, was
 overcome with grief over the bf his native town that he wept.
 Dead Piled in Pit.
 |ny persons had disappeared and Is well known that many had
 murdered. The corpses of vic-
 are being discovered. The cor ndent followed a stream of men, In and children which flower out Is the fields toward the edge of faggly wood. There under the banging bank on the edge of a Fl pit they were lying, a tangled
 of bodies, apparently as they br had been thrown with no at at burial.
 e bodies were mostly those of B or middle-aged workmen.
 each the boots and most of the
 clothing had been removed. Of the skulls were crushed, of oth- he faces were disfigured as kh by gunshot at close range.
 crowd on the bank above the some pile appeared fascinated,
 silently made way for a group mericans, including Consul Elm from Omsk, and two correspond
 and watched with interest while
 photographed the victims.
 nicely dressed woman and little walked into the pit to get bet pok at the figure of blond girl which lay partly uncov- |close under the bank.
 omen Outraged, Then Slain.
 body was perfectly preserved |e cold and lay with arms bare Frossed as though the girl might
 been sleeping. The face, which not disfigured, was that of an igent, pretty girl. Toward
 the body was removed by rela- who had come from Ufa. She a high school girl from that
 who had been abducted by the (evik commissar when IIfa was Pated. Close by was the body of her woman.
 hen the bolsheviki entered Biel- the government of the town was n over by Revolutionary com fe of communists.') There was led Committee of investiga- under the presidency of one a Lett. One of the first acts his committee was to shoot the |dent of the former local county ltvo as counter-revolutionary. latter was i'll at the time and had e carried out to his death in a i. Twenty men were shot and Addition many Mohammedan Bts. A member of the investi- pg committee boasted that he one priest because he was too over his prayers, while the com eemen waited to take him.
 |gh school boys and girls and Fts were compelled to clean the 'ts. Women of the Intelligent were made to clean the floors walls of the barracks occupied by 1eviki troops.
 Mime. Koshnevikoff, owner of the imposing residence in the town arrested. Her daughter, seek hef release, was told that the ge against her was secret. T a month in jail she was releas- It developed that al lthey had hst the woman was that on a pre- evacuation of Bielebei she had ed such a fine meal to the bol- lkl that some of them narrowly ped capture by the whites" be- g of tarrying over their dinner. pre- than eighty hostages were l when tho holrlo.,.lr: