The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-05
Intervel1tion-A AS the Wreckers
Would Have It Again

control of French officers and white guards
supposedly to prison. Reaching the cemetery
the ferries stopped an order was given TO e.;-
tmguish the lights and all prisoners were shot.
The president of the Revolutionary Committee
of ODESSA Comrade Lastochkin, was dispatched
on barge and thrown into the hole full of
water There he was kept for two weeks. Just
before the evacuation of Odessa they pierced
his eyes, tied a heavy stone to his neck and
threw him into the sea,
The number of people shot and hung in
ODESSA cannot be counted. Workers going to
work from the suburbs found every day multi
atod bodies on their way The whole shooting
ground is covered with an infinite number of
unknown graves.
IN Feodcsa the white guards in partnership
with the French Fade an attack on the prison
where they killed IS political prisoners suspected
Of bolshevisn
But all this is chds play compared with the
EMERSON inqusition When retreating from
E1herson, the occupation forces herded together
1000 working men, women and children in the
port and locked them up in the warehouse. They
we're kept there 81 hours without food or water.
Then they opened fire from the boats and the
warehouse burned down.
If anyone tried OF escape when the walls and
the roof hegan to break down. machile-guns
were used against them
The Kherson vestnik described the picture
the next day after the evacuation IS follows:
1.-THE firenen arrived when the logs that fell
from the rcof were all burning in heaps. For
about two hours they were pulling out the pieces
of burning flesh and bones from under the
debris. 10 one has ever resorted to such hellisl
brutaities as the foreign hangmen who have just
withdrawn from Klerson'
\ workman by the name OF Volgin writes:
Two young workers tckca as rarson in
Aleshck were hanged on telephone poles in front
OF many onlo9kars. They we're pullsd up on
roe. It was an awful sight to see their fAcos
distorted in mortal agony, to see the stretching
OF tl,cir necks and Their blood rushing into
their veins. Two people who argued with the
the officer about something we're shot also in
the eyes OF all They fell covered with blood,
throwing out their hands and feet and gaspiNg
for BREATH
A worker on the boat Scherbakov, tells the
following story of the life in EMERSON during the
occupation:
The allies proved regular bandits tar more
Brutal than the Petlura gang The city was
dead Rarely did anyone venture CIT of doors.
These who did had their clo,hcs stripped ard
were beaten to u2co2s2ousless. Shoos were
heard all day lorg, someone was always Being
shot AS night approached one could hear shouts
rending the air, the shouts OF violated women
and beaten children. Dead bodies with blue
swollen faces were hung on the telephone and
lamp pests Their tongues were protruding. The
corpses decomposed in the air and the deadly
st5nch filled the town
A worker by the name OF tIrni gives the
following picture CT what he at the station:
II WIS an eyewitness when five peasants
crossed the rails on their way to work on The
field The Cscel.s stopped them and suspcctng
them OF having coalinunlca ions with G.oJ orie9
guerilla fighters they began to torture them Ill
different ways, driving nails under their finger
nails, cutting their ears. The unfortunate vic
Tins groaned in agony. One had his eyes
pierced and he wept in sooth with tears of
blood. Then they were driven to the fortress
where they were tortured for a long time and
finally killed. Near the church in the fortress
saw them kill people suspected of having a
dislike for the Creco-French authorities
Many we're drowned in the Dnieper And how
majy murnered and violated women have hc7n
fo;-d on tie St'',e+7r-' -. CO.. SOS r'n"c so'' ID
with SMASHED bsads ed tee i klc. d 1T
The net results OF the first nteyelp IN 3d.
1856 killed and tortured to deatE, 6l,189 workers
and peasants wounded crippled and disabled.
The commission in aid of the victims Of inter-
vention received 237,277 claims from people who