Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-01 | Page 1 | Raid on Foreign Quarter

RAID ON QUARTER Montreal Police Seize Tons of Bolshevist Literature. ! MONTREAL. July 1 Tons of Bol-1 shevlst and Socialist literature were seized In a ;ai.i on the foreign quar-ten quar-ten of the city conducted early toft&y by 130 patroimer under the direction of Chlefof Vclice Belanger. Reign of Terror NEW YORK. June 30. A graphic, ston.' of a rein of terror in Bolshevik: Russia was iecited here tonight by John A. Embry. American consul at ! Omsk, the sea: of the Kolchak government, govern-ment, who arrived here today on a leave of absencc. Mr Embry declared no language could adequately pictur; the scenes of murder, violation of j women, theft and arson which he had seen personally, or had had described , to him by credible eye witnesses. Mr. Embrv Packed his story, particu-i larly that of thc ravage of the city of Ufs, by photographs, many of which I he declared he had taken himself and which recorded appalling instances of (wholesale buichery of men, women and children. Mr. Embry said he nad visited Ufa Immediately yfter the Bolsheviki withdrew with-drew before Kolchak's forces. He learned froti survivors of Bolshevik occupation, he said, that the Bolshevik soldiers had looted the entire city and I then orsanizd a "government" cjn 'fisting of committees. One of these committees, he de-' dared, had ail members of the city government iotu.ded up and ord red irtually all of them shot. Pupils at the Ufa high school ho did not profess sympathy for the Bol shevik were shot or put to work of most desecrating character. At Ossa. a city of about 30.000, Mr. Ltnbry decla: u, two thousand bodies were found on the outskirts when tne snow melted. Mr. Embry spoke highly of Admiral Kolchak, predtct'ng he would lead I Russia out of chaos and disorder and then retire.