Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1920 — CHINESE SHOOT RUSS [ARTICLE]

CHINESE SHOOT RUSS

Captives Are Shot to Death With Revolvers. First Make Victims Dig Graves, Then Execute Them for the Bolsheviki. Amsterdam.—The correspondent of the Handelsblad, who recently returned from a trip in soviet Russia, gives the following account of his investigations of the activities of the Chinese employed there by the bolsheviki as executioners.

“Such horrible stories were being told in Europe about these Chinese that I thought it worth my while to learn more about them. As a Joke, I asked everyone who opinion of the bolsheviki to show' me some ‘real man-killing Chinese,’ but I always was told they couldn’t produce any just now because they had all gone to the Deniklne front. “I was told the Chinese, if commanded by their own officers were excellent soldiers, but they ran like hares if their officers were killed. Executions are now very rare In Moscow, but, in August, when thousands of counter-revolutionaries were slaughtered, it was cabled out by the Chinese because the authorities feared the Russian soldiers would refuse to do the work. - “The Chinese-do this work indifferently—like they do all other work they are ordered to perform. They are blind, conscienceless tools In the hands of the men who feed them and pay them and who raised them from the position of coolies in which they came to Russia to the rank of soldier, of, the guards. “If the ‘boltsjak’ (his name for bolshevik) orders something, the Chinese does it, and he does it in his typically practical way. He first makes the victim dig his own grave and -then shoots him with his revolver. He is not cruel about It, Just practical. “When boltsjak says kill, then he kills with an unperturbed face. And when boltsjak says, ‘You may stop now,’ with the same cool face he lets his victim go.” - The correspondent after some weeks in Russia left when he was refused permission to make > investigations freely fig