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Show Red Carnival of Death Described United States Consul at Omsk Relates Horrors of Bolshevist Bol-shevist Rule. C0f AWFUL ATROCITIES Reign of Terror Is Marked by Cruelty Unparalleled in History of Civilization Civ-ilization Many Children Are Murdered. New York. John A. Embry, the American consul at Omsk, capital city of the Kolchak government, arrived in New York recently and told the official story of what had happened in Siberia and eastern Russia in the last eight months, during practically all of which time he had been in charge of American affairs. Mr. Embry said no language could picture the atrocities that have marked bolshevik rule in the territories terri-tories recaptured by Admiral Kolchak, a reign of terror that had been marked, he declared, by murder, violation vio-lation of women, theft, and arson, perpetrated with cruelty unparalleled in the history of civilization. How They Took Charge. "We were on our way to the Ufa front, the southern sector of the Siberian Sibe-rian front. My first stop was at the little county courthouse. There I learned that at sunset on the day that the Kolchak forces withdrew the bolshevists had entered the city. "The first thing the bolshevists did wns to loot the town, and then they organized their government. At the head they placed the most cruel and outspoken of their leaders. They then appointed committees, one of them the so-called extraordinary committee on investigation. The judges, the aldermen, the coun- cilmen and other leading citizens that is, those who had not been able to escape were promptly arrested, and all of those who were known to be against bolshevism or were suspected sus-pected were taken that night Into the public square and executed. They were denied trial of any sort. "I talked with a woman teacher. The bolsheviks lined up all the boys, the little ones as well, and questioned them as to their sympathies. All who were not killed were put to work of the most menial kind. "The school girls were ordered to serve in the barracks, the reds cursing curs-ing and beating those not blessed with good looks. As for the good-looking girls, to use the words of their former teacher, they 'suffered insults of the most horrible nature.' Many Hostages Held. "They also named many hostages and after subjecting them to the most horrible treatment killed them and threw the bodies into the river. "Kguan is a city of perhaps 35,000 people. The bolsheviks murdered at one time more than 1,500 citizens of the place. "In Bugulma a large number of men were thrown into the hold of a barge In the river at night. There were !)0 persons in the hold, among them Mine. Sophia Hedrofskaka, the principal of the girls' high school. "The barge was towed a long distance dis-tance down the river and .during the voyage nine prisoners were ordered to the deck and none ever returned, nor had any of them been heard from up to the time I left for America." |