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ease is permitted to go on, it will spread as far as it can
 Bolshevism feeds upon ignorance. the captain said. and added that of the 100000 persons who were educated, smong Russia's 170,000.000 people in 1914, 100000 have been killed. -Bol- yhevism directs its terror toward those who have education and toward those who have or are supposed to have money or property
 Kfev was cited by the captain one instance of how bolshevism works. On this city-which, by the way, has changed hands 13 times in warning of the bolshevik, bandit, Ukrainian and volunteer factions - the bolshevIk levied a special tax Of 4o,OoO,Ooo roubles. Tn collecting this tax, citi- zens were selected at random accord ing to the amount of money the bol- shevists decided they should have, even If they didn't and ordered to pay so much at once If the citizen didn [ have it, as was frequently the case, they were taken to jail. where torture and death was the usual end to inn prisonment.
 Conditions Indescribable
 Captain Alkire was aboard the sec pnd train which entered Kiev after It had been hastily evacuated by the bol- sheviki and occupied by Denekin' forces In the town. which is the third largest city of Russia, the people could not realize they had been freed Of the yoke of bolShevism. At night they would not budge from the houses, so strong was habit; they were a cowed, beaten people.
 In the town conditions were inde- scribab1e, said the captain. SIX tnou- sand persons had been killed, 600 or them the night the bolShevlkl eVacu- ated. and the Americans wore drug soaked handkerchiefs' to keep out the stench of decaying flesh. The scenes in the governors palace, used by the bolshevik "cheZyerchicas, or court or extraordinary information No. = there were 13 of these sham courts m the city-were typical of the general destruction as well as typical Of the slaughter common to all the Is courts
 Tie building used by this court had been a beautiful one, with perhaps "a rooms. Inside the building everything was destroyed or marred, furniture split and broken, tapestry and carpets torn or removed. windows broken walls full of bullet holes, fixtures gone. everything dismantled and ITuthlessly destroyed, all for no purposes but mere Iy for the sake of destruction.
 Wreckage Everywhere
 The first floor had been used as prison. The women's cells contained nothing but a bed or settee, the floor vile. In the quarters used to imprison men the prisoners had. not had room to lie down all at once; the place was dark and filthy; prisoners were al- lowed to be outdoors five minutes a day.
 In rooms used by the bolsheviki the floors were ankle deep in bottles liquor bottles, all bearing German labels. On the second floor, where the bolsheviki offices had been, the rooms were deep with papers and documents left in the evacuation; 40 per cent of these official papers and records bore German heads; 20 per cent were written in German
 On the third floor, as on the others, everything was wrecked. Here the xomissars had lived, and here every thing was full of liquor bottles.
 The chapel of the place, once beautiful affair, was horribly wrecked. The altar had been split; the floor was vile with filth; a picture of the Ma lonna had been torn from its frame and a picture of Trotsky substituted; had been mutilated and 1esecrated.
 Back of the palace was a yard, and at one end of this building had been a stable. This stable. the captain said, was now the slaughter house for this of the thirteen courts had it's own slaughter house.
 A Slaughter House
 This slaughter house had been ;loored with cement so that it would irain, the drain being for the blood. Along one side of the former stable, where prisoners had been stood to be shot, the wall was covered to a depth ,f nearly three inches with a mating ,f blood and brains. The floor, sev- .ral days after the place had been bandoned, was slimy with blood In ,ne corner stood big chopping block rere the bolsheviki had chopped off he arms of their victims. From the irop when the victim was placed Inder 1t.
 In this slaughter house, typical of all Ised by the bolsheviki, all sorts of tor ure had been practiced- Fingers had )een split, nails wrenched out, arms orn off, eyes put out, hands skinned, LII sorts of barbaric agonies.
 Near the slaughter house was a pit containing 1S7 of the more recent vfc- inns Others were buried elsewhere. When the Denekine forces occupied the .ity these were taken up to be buried. When the bodies were being taken ut, crowds would gather to see if they .ould see the bodies of relatives who lad just disappeared. A body would ,e taken out. The fire hose would be urned on it to clean it as much as ,ossibIe-this means was the only one o be taken-and a scream from the rowd would announce that the body lad been identified
 Too Many Bodies When these bodies were buried in the cemetery outside the city the morgue ould not handle them fast enough and