Show RUTHlESSNESS M OF 1 ARMY RECITED white Terror Described as 1 Almost E Equal Qu al to I Red Redy 1 14 y By In International Sew Jf nr Methods SS Methods employed London Feb 28 b by the loaders leaders of ot tho the northwest arms urmy of at General during tho advance adVance ad- ad Vance on Petrograd nd are arc graphically alli described In Iri an nn interview w with Ith a young roun officer In forces which has been forwarded to tho Manchester Guardian from by Its special spa spa- cial Ial correspondent Publication of at the bamo of at the officer tho Guardian states its withheld because to mako make llis ls namo public would expose him to danger T I 1 am convinced of or one ono thine the officer said that this whole business of ot war against the Bolsheviks leads to nothing nothing- but destruction of ot Russia Itself it- it self and of honest men on both sides Ve started out with a belief bellet in words like lIko democracy but tho the moment our ourA A advance anco looked like ben being successful I pushed the northwest government so was I 1 Ion on ono one side like lIko a baby and antI tho the real intentions of ot our leaders became mo clear red terror It I have o heard beard of or tho the terror ter ter- could not be worse wor-so than tho white In which I hl have hlo o actually taken part paw Informed that certain Engl English h newspapers newspapers news s papers had announced that there thor had cr small email number of ot executions executions ex ex- been on only a very Something under forty on forty on the road rond to Petrograd the tho officer said Kill All It Is false Tho The general order not so far tar as as I know in writing but un understood understood understood un- un by everybody was vas Kill Tull all communists and all Jews Ono One officer boasts that he alono alone killed sixty It was said that that was quite Just as s thoy they are arc all communists I ask naked asked d if If-ho If t ho 10 was particularly par bitter against the reds and was told that he be had lost an estate As most communists retired with tho the rods rotIs we killed people who had any connection with soviet Institutions They oven wanted to kill a 1 girl of ot 17 11 or loss who was a 1 communist I begged her off ott and silo sao kissed me mo publicly which was very awkward I was also able ablo to save a n ter ler terN to Was ho a 3 No UNo but ho bo had been on friendly terms ter-ms' ter with them They caught th the e wife of a communist a a woman with a achild child at her breast and breast and were going to shoot her ber but with T great t difficulty difficult Y and the help of ot a friend I succeeded f in preventing that Sack as ns They Go Co CoIf Gor If r these things thInS's came under my pe personal personal per per- observation you may Imagine what was tho the total of at terror on the white front the officer proceeded The worst wor-st. of ot it was that we wo did nothIng nothing noth noth- ing but destroy I am convinced from what I saw that before our coming there was a moro more or less efficient working organization of local government government government govern govern- ment in tho the village Soviets We Wo de destroyed do- do it and put back a local autocracy autocracy autocracy racy in tho the persons of o officials and nd military commanders whoso whose object was waa to get Iet out of tho the villages what they could As a man with some Bome feelings of humanity I suffered from r-om r what I saw Gaw Wo captured ed big estates estate run by agricultural communes communes communes-a a sort BOrt of at farms Considering all tho difficulties they were in good condition well stock stocked d with beasts geese etc all allwell allwell ll well cared cUed for We literally sacked th them m. m handing them over to soldiers s who killed even cven tho the cows after which we restored cd tho estate to its pre revo lution own owner or What became of or these owners when you left lenT They retired with as m us the officer replied Thoy had been living In or near their homes Wo came destroyed gave g-avo them back tho the ruins for tor a few fow days then allowed them to become refugees with us ua |