The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-07

as cOOnter-reFOluIlOIllSI Sne IOlO me that she saw three men shot be- fore her eyes and was then impris- oned with the bodies for three days. One curious figure in connection with the Red Terror in Kteff was a young woman named Rosa Schwartz, a wo- man of the town, who was employed by the Committees to obtain evidence It was her habit, it appears, to finger in the evening in some of the better cafes of the city, all of which seem to have kept going during the Bol- shevist regime, in the hope of get ting into conversation with some prosperous borugeois against whom she would afterwards appear as in- former.
 Whenever she secured a convic- ton, it is said, she used to insist on carrying out the execution herself She is reputed to have been an ex- tremely clever. attractive-looking girl After Deniken's force entered the city, Schwartz was caught. tried, and executed. The records of her trial show that her age was twenty igtt.
 Murder and Torture.
 The Chesvehayna for Kieff had three main buildings for tFsa perpe- tration of it's horrors. These were at 5 Sadoaia Street, II Elizabeth Street. and Instituskaia Street. Two Of these torture chambers and s1augh- ter-houses I visited, those in Sado- vata Street and Institutskaia Street No useful purpose, with the know1-
 edge of certain manifestations of
 Bolshevism which We now have would be served by a description of
 what 1 saw, but there was abun- dant evidence in the stables and out buildings of both establishments that there had been scenes of inhuman cruelty, mortal agony, and suffering not easily to be conceived. Dark, cavernous death chambers they were
 almost nightly for seven months; shrieks for aid, then volley shots rang out to spread consternation in the city. The whole chapter of the Red Terror in Kieff demands separ- ate treatment.
 A Committee of Investigation was appointed out of the remaining Pro- fessors of the University of Kieff, and
 they made full inquiry. The gist of
 their report is now in my posses sion, and I hope to despatch you a full description of this aspect of the Bolshevist occupation. For the pre- sent 1t is necessary to confine my self to three general statements. First, the Red Terror in Kieff was carried out in accordance with the
 policy outlined from Moscow; sec ond, actual Russians had little or no part In the horrors (the execu-
 tions, for example were mostly car- ried out by Chinese mercenary troops or by drug taking degenerates) i; third, it was apparent a conscious policy on the part of the Bolshe- viks to wipe out all the leaders of thought and culture at the same i time, thus endeavoring to Identify in the minds of working men all learn ing and culture with the old Rus sian industrial system. On the final day of the Bolshevist occupation no executions are said to have taken place all the victims being profes- sional men.
 Blight of Bolsl1evifm.
 Industrial conditions and food conditions in Kieff under the Bol- shevist regime became intolerable. By the end of May all of the factories and foundries of the city had shut down, and bread had risen to 150 roubles a pound, with other neces-
 saries in proportion. There was 8 complete Gndu&Nal stagnation due 1 to a variety of causes, one of which | was that all of the owners and most 1 of the managers of the large en- 1 terprises of the city had fled for ! their lives, and none were left who 1 were competent to direct work. The
 great majority of those who left i Kieff in self-protectton took refuge within the forests which may be i found not far from the city, and i there lived like primitive tribesmen. ! During the occupation the peasants 1 would mot bring in supplies from ! the country, partly because they