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when they attempted to kill Liant
sutsky.
The boyar government wants the
trial to be carried out in entire sec
recy so that the workers Will hear of
It only after the sentences have been
passed.
The struggle of the peasants in
Roumania has been a bitter one. The
land was taken away from the peas
ants and given to the gendarmes, the
tax collectors, boyars, soldiers and
other 1ackeys who b1indly support the
boyar rule.
Agricultural Country.
Bessarabia is not an industrial
country, 1t is an agricultural coun-
try The price of land was high. II
a peasant bought some land, he was
taxed so highly that he either worked
mainly to pay the taxes or tried to
sell it to the first buyer. The land re-
forms which the bourgeois press
lauds mean nothing to the peasant.
They may look good on paper, but in
practice they mean nothing.
Extensive Spy System.
The Roumanian government main
tains a system of spies that cannot
be beaten elsewhere. There is a spy
to every village and in some places
there is one spy to every three per-
sons. For minor infringments of the
law, the peasants are taken into an
open field. There they are told that
the sigurantsi (Roumanian secret po-
lice) have nothing against them and
tell them to run home. As the peas
ants start to run, the secret police
draw their pistols and shoot the fee
ing peasants. The official reports
that are handed to their chief con
tain the legend, KILLED in the attempt
to escape" Ii
In the village Of Plachtovko, 10
peasants were arrested. They we're
brot to the prison. There the third
degree of the Roumanian sigurantsi
was given them. Their nails were
pulled on, hot oil poured on their
shaved heads, the soles Of their feet
pricked with needles and then beaten
with clubs. After the police found
that the peasants refused to sign the
confessions handed them, they were
brot to field and told to run home.
The peasants were killed and left on
the field. 4rsF ga0
Peasants Revolt. ss'
These conditions brot about a res
volt of the peasants In Bessarabia
Last autumn the greatest uprisings
occurred in Tatarbounar, Nikolayevka.
Trubayevka, Bulkanikov, Jokfii, Cis-
nea and from these points spread all
over Southern Bessarabia. In three,
districts, Soviet republics were pro-
claimed. Tatarbounar, the village
from which most Of the peasants now
on trial come, was bombarded by artil.
lery and the town destroyed.
The torture that the peasants,
whose misfortune it was to survive
the bloody reprisals of the Rouman-
ian boyars, underwent is wildly de.
scribed in the following two state
ments made by victims Of the siguar-
antsi.
Arrest Mother.
1.-TWO agents of the sigurantsi, No
delko and Stefanescu, arrested me in
my house in Arda. They straight
away threw themselves at me and
wanted to hit me, but when my baby
began to scream, desisted. They
drove me in a cart to the sigurantsi,
and all the way beat me most fear
fully. When / arrived at the sigur.
antsi, | was shown many prisoners
who had already been beaten till they
were half dead, and was informed
that the same fate awaited me also.
After this, they beat me about to
such terrible extent, that to this
day am feeling the pains, and am
deaf.
After the beating they led me to
the outskirts Of the village, and de-
clared that they would beat me as
they beat all Communists in Bessar-
abba, II do not answer as they re-
quired.
Gives False Evidence.
Under the pressure OF these