RUSSIAN RED TERROR

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1918, Page 3

RUSSIAN RED TERROR

GROWING WORSE DAILY

NEW YORK, 4th- October. Mr. Arno Ddsch Fleurot, writing from Stockholm, states :—"I learn from a. neutral diplomat who has arrived from Moscow, that if Mr. Poole (the American correspondent) had reached the Finnish frontier two hours later than be did when he escaped from Russia he would have , been arrested and confined in the Fortress of. Peter' and Paul. The order for his arrest was/ given by the Extraordinary Commission against the counter-revolution. The diplomat said that life in Petrograd', was unendurable. The red terror was growing worsj3 daily. Lenin had tried to prevent the wholesale executions of the innocent- bourgeoisie, but the Extraordinary Commission was more powerful than he. In all the cities and provinces the educated classes are being murdered. The head of the Extraordinary Commission in Petrograd is one Bill Shatoff, formerly a New York anarchist. According to neutral reports he executed eight members of. the ; Imperial family in the Spasskaia prison. Many of the Bolshevik officials are grafters. It was discovered after Uritsky's death that he had amassed four million roubles by speculation. It was he who /proceeded relentlessly against the speculators, and ordered many to be executed." LONDON, 4th October. A Russian ex-dourtier, ■ who has reached London, reported that the charred bodies of the Tsarina and her four daughters were" discovered in the ruins of the burned building. The informant confirms the stories of the grimmest horrors in Petrograd. One grand duchess had written to a friend in London begging clothes and food, as she was compelled -to sell papers in the streets. Nine duchesses were confined in a single room and fed once daily. (PDBLISHED IN TIIE TIMES.) (Received October 1, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, sth October. Reports from Moscow state that M. Gutnehroff, a former Minister of War, has been murdered