In these events of horror 850 per
sons were killed, 1,500 were injured,
18,000 were made homeless, about 80,-
000 families needed help, the property
loss was nearly $100,000,000 and al
most $1,000,000 in relief funds, not in
cluding emergency supplies was exVenetian
pended.
To the sufferers from all disai
daring the year, the American
Cross sent $120,000 worth of
plies, HO Red Cross nurses and seven
special relief trains. To meet the
needs of the stricken, the organisation
set up ten relief stations, operated
thirty food canteens and as many
emergency hospitals. One hundred
and twenty-five Red Gross chapters
gave disaster relief service.
If disaster ever strikes this town or
county, the citizens can be absolutely
sure the Red Gross will be right o&
hand to help them In every way.
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MjlN.. SATURDAY: SEPTEMBER 25,1920
CHINESE
RUSS
Captives Are Shot to Death With
Revolvers.
First Make Victims Dig Graves, Then
Execute Them for the
'6 Bolsheviki.
Amsterdam?The correspondent of
the Handelsblad, who recently re
turned from a trip in soviet Russia,
gives the following account of his in
vestigations of thev activities of the
Chinese, employed there by the bol
sheviki as executioners.
"Such horrible stories were being
told in Europe about these Chinese
that thought it worth my while to
about th^a. As a joke, I
Dr
asked everyone who asked my opinion
of the bolsheviki to Sshow 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 Denikine front.
