Show DEfEAT CAUSES NEW STRIFE Kaiser and Friends Pleased at Recent German Elections i- i r T I CZAR TORTURES VICTIMS VICTIMS VICTIMS' Awful Pul Meted Out to hits Kus- sinn slait Political Prisoners Described by bruit Berlin Writer niter l' l It cr r rIlY BY LIV MALCOLM ll I Copyright 1907 Special Cable Berlin Feb If 1 23 If an any one ono thinks that the Socialists had all the lie fight knocked out of them at tho lie recent elections he Is very cry much mistaken There Is plenty of or light fight ht left In them and the they are arc proving It In iii a way most gratifying to the kaiser and his government ro by fighting furiously among them themselves elves thereby displaying much dirty linen Some Somo one one of or course has to shoulder the tho blame for ot the recent defeat and anel time the leaders headers are arc exceedingly ly busy accusing ac- ac accusing ac ac- cusing each other while tho the rank ran and anel file of the party are obviously disgusted disgust disgust- ed and tired and It Il really looks as It If the once so formidable party palt Is goIng go- go goIn going In Ing to pieces altogether That the government Intends to tomake tomake tomal mal make e the tho most of fits Its victory Is tam tain and It speaks well for or the tho good sense that while he h so far has said nothing concerning the ministry an and naval na program he lie hopes to see seo carried out ho has conic como out strongly In iii favor of nio m measures which will greatly benefit benent the laboring classes and which will rob the Ito Socialists of oC man many more votes otes In iii Limo timo to come I S Tortures S as horrible as t any devised by hy he tile Spanish Inquisition arc aro practised to today today today to- to day upon Russian political prisoners A German newspaper t correspondent gives a detailed description of the methods of the torture chamber at Riga from In Information Information In- In formation supplied him by men who have witnessed cd them In their official capacity The object of ot the tho torture Is to force tho time prisoner to make some sonie statement either cither of oC confession or of betrayal the tue latter being being- most useful in the tho Inquisition as us it places s more victims In their hands Before torture tor- tor or- or ture ure is applied the prisoner I la is promised that It If lie he gives important information h he lie will be released and given a post In tho political police pollee Tho Time torture chamber is within the Central Central Cen Cen- Building and three there nearly every lVer night except Sun Sundays ays from midnight until t 6 G In tn the morning men aro am subjected d to hellish maltreatment in the tho name of or the travesty of oC Justice that now tries to keep wel order In Russia As AM lh tIme the prisoners are an nil all awaiting the time so- so called trial h by field martial court and therefore practically doomed to death tho tIm torturers torture are arc not over careful how they Injure their victims who ho when the they arc are finished with are arc broken men inca in more than titan one sense Here Is the usual routine The prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner manacled and chained Is brought UI up from his cell in the time lower story of oC tho the building to tho torture chamber This grim apartment Is furnished with 3 a wooden bench to which strong straps are aro titled tilted for the purpose of oC securely fastening the victim down Around tho the walls waits hang hang- t time h ho instruments of ot torture which include rods rolls made macJe of rubber tubes filled with lead head which the th executioners have humorously named God Goo bless us us Gods grace etc Iron jackets pincers long needles and anti 11 wrist screws that crush the tho wrist The Tho Chief Chic of or the Political Police Pollee directs the operations and his orders are aro carried out omit b by u Ii stare staff of fifteen men Sometimes a landowner or two from rom the tho surrounding surrounding- district are invited to witness the tho tortures Once In the torture chamber tho the prisoner pris pris- oner oller is fl freed cd from front his shackles and Is In Interrogated In- In with threats threat as to his lila supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed accomplices H Ho lie is 18 told that he may lIlay maybo bo be tortured to death but that If he lie conf confesses con- con ho all his accomplices f SIts anti and names will be released and a post host found for Cor him himIn him Ui In tho the Ol The rejection of these terms l is followed by his being stripped nude nudo and strapped down on tim the bench Having HavIng- I gagged cogged him with a It wet rag tho torturers get t busy The rite first treatment Is beating upon the tho ho head mind and bod body r with the rubber rods tho open wounds being sprinkled with salt at Intervals Water titer and aro are used to revive relve the victim when ho he swoons I If It this fulls mills to make the prisoner speak severer tortures 9 are arc applied such uch as tearIng tearIng tear- tear Ing leg out the finger und and toe nails nail piercing tho the veins of arms arm and legs and tearing out the hair There Is la yet et another degree of or torture used to extort a a. confession conCession If this la is un un- successful With red hot pincers pieces lleCes of ot flesh are arc torn from the victims victim's body his teeth are knocked out and he ime Is mutilated In unmentionable ways Suffering makes man many of Or tho the prisoners confess anything and implicate anybody Often the thc they confess to crimes they havo have not committed and accuse their comrades or acquaintances falsely In order oNer to gain gaina a respite from torture A few rew however howe are staunch In their silence under tho the most horrible torture |