Show 2000 murdered murdene d by the bolshevik U S red cross agents tell of reds atrocities in siberia DIG OWN PITS BURIED ALIVE murders were without and the victims were largely of thrifty or intelligent classes or servants of church boinsk evidence of the mas massabro sacro by tile tho of more limn 2000 elvil lans in and ami near the town iown of at bosn has haa been obtained by Aless jessra rs Slin Shu monds and emerson Ih nerson and dr It udolph heusler of tile the american red lied cross who have just returned from perm osa and other re occupied russian territory approximately persons killed at osa and 1500 lit in ilia surrounding districts oso which lind had a population of was so denuded of males by the that general upon the occupation of the town was ivaa obliged to telegraph to burg for men to administer civic affairs dogs dig up bodies in addition to securing verbal and documentary evidence the ame american rican red cross officials witnessed the exhuming cuming of scores of victims from trenches tren dies where they were wera burled buried sometimes several deep lit in graves revealed by the digging of dogs the murders were without provocation and the victims were largely of the thrifty and intelligent classes or servants of the lie chirck which latter bitter it was the lie announced hi intention of fio to exterminate tile the evidence evid ence almost unthinkable atrocities A blacksmith by economics lind had attained a shop ile iia was required to pay rubles bo be cause lie ho could not lie he was shot A man was shot because lie lived in a brick house all attorneys arid and jurists were rifled killed and doctors whose services were not required for the moment were disposed of in a similar manner A woman whose husband anil and two sons had been seized applied to tho the commissar for information as to their fate site she was told they aliey lind had been token taken to perm after repenting repeating tier her visit several times time s slie wis was informed that hat if she bothered the commissar again she would be shot as they had been the body of a woman was exhumed and identified lit in tho presence of tho the americans as the wife of a general through jewels sewed in tile lining ot of tier her clothing of wl which relatives were aware another women was compelled to fetch a lamp and gozo goze upon tier murdered sons for tile alio amusement of the slayers A wife required to pay 1000 rubles for tho the release of her husband bor bar rowed and paid it ovee over later she aho returned with tile remainder and then then WILS was informed that her husband had h ad been shot there were scores of similar cases all were killed without any form of trial the soviet called n meeting and prepared lists of those thosa to die the houses proscribed were verc visited by squads the tha doors door were smashed in and the victims dragged to the edge of the town and forced to dig their own graves those who resisted were shot in the streets A testified that lie he tin had seen men thrown into a 0 pit and burled buried alive this testimony has been confirmed by bodies exhumed the clenched hands of which were clinging to tile mud at the bottom of the pit the only spark of humanity dincov able wits was that in confiscating the tha belongings of the lie residents in somo some instances where there here was a family ot of small children the family was permitted to retain one cow out of several occasionally re a peasant was waa allowed to keep his worst horse tile bolshevik attitude toward tho the church chur cli was it uncompromising it sing priests were hunted unmercifully tile the evl evi dence showed that men were slain main whose only Off ellse was that ahti worked as or caretakers of churches |