The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 12, 1920, Page 9

Star Correspondent Sends Us First Complete Ac- | count of Famous Case | Second Article of a Series BY JACK MASON VLADIVOSTOK (by Messenger Across the Pacific) —For two years Japan “sowed the wind" of outrage And murder in Russian Siberia, She Sreaped the whirtwind™ in the nias. " gacre at Nikolayevsk, } That once thriving seaport of 15,000 people was a shocking ruin when I saw it first from the Red Cross ship Erivan, after steaming © 1,000 miles north from Vladivostok, the only newspaper man who has ‘passed the Jap cordon. Blackened, storm-soaked remnants Tot the fireswept town—crowds of sick and starving refugees on the wharves—and the decomposed bodies of murdered men bobbing in the sluggish Amour river “WHITE” Ki X ” @OIN MARAUDING REDS: When the Japs and their tools, the| “white” Russians, surrendered Niko- wsk February 2% 1920, the/ bites” went over bodily to Trepet: | in's band of marauding reds. ‘The Japs signed an armistice. ‘They had full liberty to go about) Rown. ‘There is no evitence that they were in any way motested or ‘This rpaet continued 11 days. Nwhat led to the break no witness is lavailable to tell. The Japs were all! 4; the reds either dead or outlaws | the hills. Whatever caused it,/ ; the fact: at ra m. of March 12, in the dark night, the Japs surrounded Trepet | Ye house, threw ol] upon it, set it) ‘and tossed grenades in the) ‘The intent was to destroy in and all his staff. in escaped, wounded in the | ‘His chief alde was killed, His} Nina, was not hurt. Fighting continued, intermittently, im the streets for a week. Then the | remaining Japs surrendered and were 1 not know the rules of war haps, after signing an armistice, is permissible to try to eremate | - other fellow. HAT JAPS DID 1S “JUSTIFICATION” can imagine how Trepetzin cape it And I know that his Afication” for his own unspeak- is what the Japs did ‘and at Ivanoka, and a hun-| ‘other places, He says that in ng them, wholesale, he treated Japs precisely as they had served ds of Siberian Russians He did not kill them tmmediately after the frustrated cremation party. | For weeks a sullen quict brooded ikola, ln ye ae sme that a large) force was on the way to recap Nikolayevsk. Trepetzin prepar methodically, for retreat. The town is 28 miles above the mouth of the Amur, which empties {nto the Sea of Okhotsk by two chan nels. Trepetzin sank 12 barges, load @d with stone, to block one channel. ‘The other he sowed with mines! (lis strategy failed, however. The cunning Japs avoided the mine strewn channel—and found a new Bhannel, cut by the current of the , around the sunken barges.) ‘Then Trepetzin executed ven nce upon his Jap prisoners, de pite repeated pleas that he spare them, from the Chinese consul and the officers of certain Chinese gun boats, neutrals, icebound at Nikolay- ‘Trepetzin marched the Japs half a fle from shore (the Amur is two Miles wide at this point), cut a hole n the ice, killed the prisoners, and Bhucked their bodies thru the hole jot one survived. Thad gruesome evidence of this, as leaned over the Erivan’s rail, soon er we dropped’anchor. Something to the surface 20 feet away, It the bloated body of an unfortun . That forenoon three bodies came . Next day, seven, One morning, Then daily, five on the average. all there were 83, coming up in a I area near the ship We had unwittingly anchored at the scene of the butchery. The air ‘became so tainted the ship's anchor- e had to be changed, After killing the Japs, Trepetzin pnounced, at Nina's instigation, it said, that every “white” Russian ho had aided the Japs would be mished, first by seeing hig entire lamily destroyed, and then by dying | imself. A reward was offered in lormers: Any one who had a spite {asainst his neighbor had only to re | ap port that neighbor as a Jap sythpa-| That neighbor and all his family disappeared. Hundreds of Russians thus met death during the last days before Trepetzin'’s retreat. His distorted | dea was not aimless murder, how | ler, for he took with him 2,000 Rus. n civilians at a time when his in 'e your pores enlarged or clogged waste matter? Is yourskin rough. ally oily, blotched, or red? Don't lect the treatment of these defects PERPETRA This photograph was found on the body of a Russian by the Japanese who relieved Niko-| layevsk. him, received when the Japs tried to cremate him. On the floor is a boy, scarcely 18, with a revolver in his hand. ORS OF NIKOLAYEVSK MASSACRE.) REFUSE TO FIX | His staff surrounds} soraly overburdened. é | TREPTZIN APPLIES TORCH TO TOWN! | Finally Trepetzin applied the torch to the town, thus hampering its reoe cupation by the Japs, who arrived June @. So Trepetain Med. Where he Is gow, ft is impossible to tell. How many human beings he exe cuted will never be known, exactly First accounts ran as high as 5,000, but this included all missing. Only 42 greeted the arriving Japs, Thou sands of refugees have reported since, From available facta, I estimate the town's population, just prior to the massacre, at about 13,200, This included 4,200 Chinese. All the Chi-! ALL COATS SILK ASSORTMENT OF STYLISH COATS Collars. Bolivia, Silvertone, Botany Broadcloth and Velour. and Brown, Silk lined and We also have! about 1 patrons. stock, worthy n Resinol Ointment and Resinol jp usually overcome such troubles kly and easily. Resinol Ointment hes and heals the skin while Resi- Soap cleanses and refreshes it. them and ses, Atall draggiets, NEXT TO PHILLIPS BOYY SHOE STORK @. i) | river, interlined. with Sealine and Opossum Fur. very beautifully embroidered. adequate transport facilities were Nese were removed safely by the Chi- thelr own people nese gunboats at Mago, 20 miles up| except about 100 killed by stray bullets, } The Japanese official estimate of their nationals, soldier and civilian wan slightly under 1,000. All died, except 15 oF 16 rescued by the Chi nese. The Russian population was about $,000, of whom 5,700 are accounted for, either saved by the Chinese at Mago or sheltered in the forest, or already taken by Jap ships to Viadi vostok, Net result, about 3,385 fa talitien No words of praise and admiration can fitly describe the steadfast hero- ism of the Chinese consul and the men on the little Chinese gunboate. 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Walter Lace, | driver of the car in which Walter Byres Jr. wan killed last Saturday | night south of Olympla, when it was| driven into a barricade across the Pacific highway mas J, O'Leary, Thurston county prosecutor, charges Lace and Herbert Jensberg, both of Seattle, of having liquor in the machine at the |human body ts the epin Squaw Ladies Out of Luck in Alaska Now No longer will the lonesome Alaskan marry an Indian squaw lady (as he does tn fiction and in the minds of Bastern folk) if the jast summer's travel of white women, bent on matrimony, keeps up, says Philip 8. Smith gist with the United st day upon his return from his fest Visit to the Fairbanks district in eight years Dr, Smith auld he was surprised at the number and high character of the women he met on the boate and in the territory, who frankly stated they intended to marry some responsible, respectable, in dustrious Alaskan, be he miner or tarmer—provided they were asked “Alaska will some da a that time Je not far dinta 1 pro duce more goldahan any state in the Union, and Wrat that mark by a long shot,” said Dr, Smith, who reported that placer miners in the Fairbanks jon were not doing better than breaking even. He reports attention ts being directed to development of “hard rock mines” and low grade gold properties, which offer tremen dous tonnage possibilities: Beware Your 12th Dorsal Vertebra! The most important part of the d the weakest section of the spine and the one that causes the most trouble is the 12th dorsal vertekra, accord ing to Dr. By J. Palmer, eminent + 120,230 ARE WRITE FOR HS REGISTERED FREE NERIE BOOK New Record Is Established for Seattle Fixactly 120,230 Seattle votern are registered and qualified to vote the general election November 2. When the registration books clos. ed Monday night, It was discovered her regord had been by ‘This years’ total far sur-| passes that of 1916, the last preat-| dential election year, when 98,689) ers were enrolled, 1 At the elty election last March | 99,188 citizens were registered. | Monday's registrtion was the viewt of the present period, with | % names being placed on the books. | at LOCKED UP WITH | VICTIM OF D. T.. Doctor’s Yells Laughed at]’ by Hospital Orderly = | {" Dr. P. A. Brown, city hospital in-| terne, got mixed up with a D. T. pa-| tient Monday night, and served part of his Interne work in one of the hon padded cells The D. T., whose nate was Casey ing—needed a drink or some and Dr, Brown entered the to agminister treatment. An The M. 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