The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-01-20
REDS BITTER
AGAINST POLES
Latter AIIege Germans Sell
Arms to BoIshevists- --Coun-
try Terrorized.
"DEATH TO NONW0RKERS"
Slogan Of Advancing Host.
Houses Burned, Inmates Has
sacred, Refugee Says.

Warsaw, Saturday, Jan. 1S.-De-
layed.)-(A. P)-Bolshevist troops
have slackened their advance at the
Polish frontier. The Germans are
delaying their evacuation of Grodno
for several days, although Gen. Fall
kenhayn has retired to Suwalki and
Gen. Hoffman, has gone to Koenigs-
berg.
Polish leaders allege Germans are
selling arms to the bolshevists, un-
der the pretense of aiding the "So-
ciety for Provisioning Ukraine" In
Lithuania and Ukraine the bolshev-
lists are issuing proclamations that
they have come to restore order. Dis
patches state, however, bolshevist
soldiers have been seen carrying
banners inscribed with the words
Long live the red terror" and
Death to nonworkers."
Men have been arrested at Wilma
and other places and have been re-
leased later, it is said, on payment of
sums ranging from SO to $4,000
rubles, the size of the ransom being
in proportion to the terror of the vic
tim and his power to pay. The boil
shevists are especially bitter against
the Poles, it being reported that the
declaration of a holy war against
Poles by the Moscow government
makes it the fright and duty of ev-
cry bolshevist to kill the Poles as en-
emies Of mankind" There are fewer
burning houses than formerly, but it
hS, charged that where houses are
spared their inmates are slain. 1--WE
have saved the nest, but destroyed
the birds" is . remark attributed to
1ne bolshevist leader.
Jews Made Indignant.
Miss Shebeko, a sister of member
of the imperial council, succeeded in
escaping from Mohilev and has
reached Warsaw. She says that she,
with two aged aunts, was driven
from their home, which was turned
over to peasants. They were allowed
one tiny room, from which the lock
Of the door had been removed. A
few bits of furniture. were given
them, she says, with the admonition:
You understand that this belongs to
the nation" They considered them
selves fortunate, as many of their
members were massacred, she de-
clared. Two brother living in Ser
dowski were tortured to death and
their wives and little children were
mutilated, according to her story.
The officer of the Polish legion who
went to visit Serdowski is alleged to
have been murdered because he wore
epaulets, which are forbidden by the
bolshevists. Miss Shebeko says this
murder aroused the indignation of
certain Jewish members of the local
soviet. She says the sentence was
finally approved when it was learned
that the officer knew how to read
and write. One of the speakers at
,tthe meeting was reported to have
declared: There will be perfect
equity in the world only when no.
body knows how to read and write"
Women Commit Suicide.
/. Miss Shebeko says many well-bred
women in Russia have committed
suicide through fear Of outrage.
Reds Make Captures.
Berne, Switzerland. Jan. 20.-The
German military command in an
nouncing the capture of Mitau by the
bolsheviki said the advancing Rus
SLAMS also had occupied Bosheljani,
Scaulan, Tukkum and Goldutz, in the
region west and southwest of Riga.
Protest Russ Support.
Berne, Switzerland, Jan. 20.-The
German government has sent note
to the Russian bolshevik government
protesting against the support given
the Spartacans by the bolsheviki.
The German government declares it
is in possession of 'irrefutable
proofs" of the attitude Of the bolshe-
Wiki and says the revolutionists who
intended ito overcome the German
people" were paid with money Of