Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-07-06
MURDER, THEFT
ARSON AND RAPE
BY b0LSHEV|K|
Atrocities Unparalleled Commit
ted by the Unbridled Rus
sian Communist.
Men, Women and Children Slain
by Thousands After Kali
chak's Defeat.
Chicago Tribune Service.

New York, July John A. Embry
the American consul at Omsk, which is
the capital city of the Kolchak govern
ment of those parts of Russia not under
bolshevik control arrived in New York
today and tonight told the Official story
of what had happened in Siberia and
Eastern Russia in the last eight months
during practically all of which time he
had been in charge of American affairs
in Kolchak's capital city.
Mr.. Embry said no language could PIC
ture the atrocities that have marked Dol,
shevik rule in the territories recaptureo
by Admiral Kolchak, a reign of terror
that had been marked, he declared, by
murder. violation of women, theft and
arson. perpetrated with cruelty unparal-
eled In the history of civilization.
I'VE we're on our way 10 the ota
front. which S the southern sector OF the
Siberian front. My first stop was at the
little county court house.
There | learned that at sunset on the
day that the Kolchak forces withdrew
the bolshevists had entered the city.
The first thing the bolshevists did
was to loot the town and then organize
their government At the head they
placed the most cruel and outspoken OF
their leaders, They then appointed COM
mittees. one of them the so-called extra
ordinary committee on investigation. Al
the head they appointed Lett. and this
committee was voted the power to put
TO death any man. woman or child sus-
pected of being opposed to bolshevism
and sentence could be and was pro-
nouneed without formality of trial.
'srhe Judges. the aldermen. the coun-
cilmen and other leading citizens-that
is. those who had not been able to es-
cape-were promptly arrested. and all oil
those who were known to be against
bolshevism or were suspected of being
against il were taken that night into
the public square and executed. In ey-
cry instance the condemned were denied
trial of any sort.
The president of the Jfa council was
i'll in a hospital He was hauled down
sentence pronounced, and then the chair
was wheeled out into the public square
and the Lett, whose name is Belt, him
self fired the shot that ended the life OF
the president.
Our attention was attracted by
crowds of people journeying in the di-
rections of a large patch of woods. These
persons. / discovered, were the relatives
and friends of scores OF men ana women
and children who had met death or had
disappeared. during the bolshevik control
The SHOWS which had covered the ground
during the winter had begun to melt,
and melting disclosed the secret of the
disappearance of scores of innocent peo-
pie. among them women and girls. the
latter of tender ages. The bolsheviks
had taken these people from their homes
and then driven them into the woods and
murdered them. They We're executed AT
short range. their bodies being horribly
mangled. and in some instances their
skulls were crushed in with clubs. Here
l have a picture that shows 20 of these
corpses, among them that of a 17-year-
old girl This picture / myself took in
the woods near Ufa. Here is another
picture that shows another batch of I'M
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