The Belding banner-news., 1920-01-07
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fares with fire. The place became an
inferno. The Bolshevists were victor
ious. On capturing Odessa railway
station, which had been defended by a
few officers and a number of anti
Bolshevist soldiers, the Bolshevists
bayoneted to death the nineteen
wounded and helpless men laid on the
waiting room floor to cwait Red Cross
succor.
Scores of other men who fell wound
ed in the streets also became victims
of the triumphant Bolshevist crimi-
nails. The majority of these wretched
and unhappy suff :erers completely
disappeared. inquiries at the hospi-
tails and prisons revealed the fact
that they were not there, and no trace
Of them was to be found. A fortnight
later there was a terrible storm on
the Black Sea and the bodies of the
missing men were washed up on the
rocks of Odessa breakwater and along
the shore; they had been taken out
to sea in small boats, stones tied to
their feet and then been dropped over
alive into deep water. Hundreds Of
others were captured and taken on
board the Almaz and the Sinope, the
largest cruiser of the Black Sea fleet.
Here they became victims of unthink-
able tortures.
On the Sinope General Chronmich-
off and some other personal friends of
my own were fastened one by one
with iron chains to planks of wood
and pushed slowly, inch by inch, into
the ships furnace and roasted alive.
Others were tied to winches, the
winches turned until the men were
torn in two, alive. Others were taken
to the boilers and scalded with boiling
steam; they were then moved to an
other part of the ship and ventilating
fans set revolving that currents of
cold air might blow on the scalds and
increase the agony of the torture The
full names of seventeen of the Sinope
victims were given me in writing by
members of their families or their
personal friends. These were lost la
ter when my rooms were raided, my
papers seized and / myself arrested
and thrown into prison.
The house in the Catherine square
in which was first in captivity after
WdIuS DtCdIne the DOlS0eNlSJS mouse
of torture in which hundreds of VIC
tins were done TO death. The shrieks
of the people being tortured to death
or having splinters of wood driven
under the quick of their nails were so
agonizing and appalling that person
al friends of my own in the Voroutsof-
fsky Percoluk were obliged to fasten
their double windows to prevent the
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house. The horror and fear of the sur
viving citizens was so great that the
Bolshevists kept motor lories thun-
dering up and down the street to
drown the awful screams of agony
wrung from their dying victims.
This house of torture remains as
much as possible in the condition in
which the Bolshevists left it and is
now shown to those who care to in
spect its grewsome and blood d-bespat-
tered rooms.
There are people who maintain that
with theatres open and electric trans
running, anarchy does not exist and
that life in Soviet Russia. is both Sc
cure and pleasant. | did not find it
so. There is hating place for the
electric cars at the corner of Kanat-
maya and Grecheskaya. Returning
from the town at IL 80 one morning
encountered a scared and frightened
group at this point. Inquiring reveal
ed the fact that the Bolshevists had
just successfully murdered two un-
protected and defenseless women
waiting for the tram to go into the
city shopping. Their crime was that
both clothes and manners showed
them to be "Bourjouie". Also in the
Knatnaya one morning a working wo-
man was shot for the sport of the
thing while running across the road
to purchase a bottle of milk for her
children. Her body was lying by the
curb as / came by, the bottle smashed,
and milk and blood streaming down the
gutter. The house door stood open,
her two little children crying with
grief and terror at the entrance.
Week by week the newspapers pub
lished articles for and against the ma
tionalization of women. In South Rus
sia the proposal did not become
legal measure, but in Odessa bands
of Bolshevists seized women and girls
and carried them off to the port, the
timber yards and the Alexandrovsky
park for their own purposes. Women
used i'm this way were found in the
mornings either dead or mad or in a
dying condition. Those found still
alive were shot. One of the most aw-
full of my own personal experiences of
the New Civilization was hearing at
night from my bedroom. windows the
frantic shrieks Of woimen Il
in the park opposite.