| Show allowed cossacks to maltreat the people st petersburg wednesday DC 6 Mor via Eydt kunnen russia dec 7 the ot the of aleut general rort former minister 0 war who was shot in the governors palace at istratoff Sst december ath bad been preceded by the most horrible stories of the manner in Sa kharon had been repressing tha agrarian disorders he corralled peasants with cossack and then had them beaten with the frol diers whips tu so doing pursued the system adopted by prince john former governor general of finland in the agrarians arians in the vicinity of charkoff Kh arkoff several years ago when the prince caused the peasants to be whipped by relays of cossacks and compelled them in turn to beat their comrades the assassin of has not boon identified when the woman who committed the crime was arrested ahe declared that she had executed a decree of the terrorist section of tha social revolutionists the following is a description of arrival at ono of the villages of fhe province of he cime with Co sacks and artillery the peasants were surrounded by cossacks and addressed them deni andins that they their leaders the milage elder replied but gave the general no information the older wag immediately beaten until lie lost aroB then retired to the cobit house leaving the peasants at the mercy of the cossacks most of whom were drunk and they began torturing the peasants pulled our their hair and boards even teat ins pieces of flesh from their aceaid thirty three peasants were thus maltreated mal treated |
