White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-06-06
RED NIGHTMARE
IN SIBERIA CITY
Survivor Paints Picture Of Almost
incredible Atrociousness.
PRECEDED BY 5-DAy BATTLE
Homes Of Wealthy citiEsns piundsrsd,
Houses Set on Pirs and Famltise
Lea In Stunning DuIidines-orunksn
osIshsviks stasgsr About Streets
Appiaudins Zach New Horror.

For sheer horror and almost In
credible atroclousness the report OF
tho affair at Nikolaievsk. siberia. Just
made public at Tokyo. surrasses DC
tIon OF the most lurid kind. The
story was brought TO Admiral kawa-
nara, commanding the japanese nava'
forces at ~viadivostok. by a public sur
yeyor from Nlkolaisvsk, who made
his way overland disguised as a Chi
nese pilgrim.
Fifteen thousand bolsheyiks com
prised the attacking force, After cap
turing the town and killing such strag-
slsfs from tho evacuating Russian
army as they could md the reds be
gan ~pillaging.
They first plundered the homes OF
the wealthy citizens. The owners
were tied with ropes. the rooms strip
ped Of all v~aluables. and the houses
set afre. The families were left In
the burning dwellings.
~inssnsats crimss In Streets.
The boisheviki then turned their at
tention to the "l%ntellectuals' or bour-
geoisie. These u~nfortunates were
dragged into the streets, their fingers
chopped of, and their rms hacked
from their bodies with hatchets.
Ropes were then fastened TO their
ankles and tied to horses. The horses
we're driven iu opposite directions.
pulling the victims limbs from their
bodies.
Drunken bolsheviks staggered about
ths streets. watching the atrocities b.
the light from the flaming houses and
~spp!auding each new horror as II was
perpetrated.
The japanese residents. the survey
er's story says. were sghast, aud hur-
ried to their consulate for safety.
They sent hurry calls for help and
projection of the Japanese troops
camped outside the cier. The soldiers
promptly responded. escortins native
and Nipponese citizens to the con-
sulate. about which they threw . o
don.
The reds Immediately looted and
burned the vacated japanese quarter.
The owners simply retreating to the
consulate without protesting. The
Japanese tried. the report says. 70
avoid a clash.
Finally, the bolsheviks entered all
streets leading to the consulate and
began firing on the Japanese troops
and covering refugees. The battle
Immediately got under way.
Reds Slaughtered In Fight.
Natives and japanese men. women
and children aided the soldiers Ia the
defense OF the consulate. Several
pieces of light field artillery plowed
great gaps through the closely packed
red ranks. while machine guns cut
The boIsheviki to pieces. hut they
were outnumbered fifteen to one.
Soon there was not q japanese I'M
wounded among those left alive. The
grounds about the consulate were
strewn with bodies of women and
children. All through the night the
desperate fighting continued.
And this kept up for Ave days and
At length. when their NUM-
lions were exhausted, the wounded
Japanese soldiers threw themselves
into the flames of their own consulate.
rather than suffer capture at the hands
IT the ~bolsheviki.
The remainder OF the Siberlans and
Japanese civilians. who were either
TOO weak from hunger or dying from
wounds and unable TO kill themselves.
lioisted the white flag.
When the surveyor made his escape
the last thing he saw was the bolshe-
Wiki racing forward TO the consulate
grounds for the kill.