slow irksome trek from Warsaw can
'build up the case as completely as he
-ThA rent of tha matter Is
that in Vllnsr and Vllna is the first
city occupied by the Bolsheviks In
which It has been possible to make
j4m Invaatlntlnn th Bolshe-
' ivlks not only treated human' Ufa as
lor not tne sugniesi moment, out in
,eruelty and barbarity whloh seemed
an absolute denial that such' a thing
as civilization ha ever existed,
j The aspect of tha Bolshevist move
ment as It manifested Itself in Vllna
has interested me not a little, and I
have endeavored to get somewhat at
the ' psychology of the unrestrained
brutality that developed here. . One
' explanation that has been given me
'by several persons is that, the Bol
sheviks who eama to Vllna vera com
prised chlariy of two types enrewa,
keen, alert Jews, who were not with-
oat a
ear tain amount or eaueauon.
and aeeondly, Russian peasants of the
lawks order.' Tha Jews completely
dominated la tha management of af
fair when It cam to dealing offlolally
of them or aeml-efSclally with tha
community, but there were many oe
caatona when they war entirely un
able to govern er control the ignor
ant rtu law portion of their-follow lag
whoa swaat prlmll've and baaUM in-
selves and to whose essential license,
murder and plunder, the worst out
rages of the Bolshevise regime In
Vllna must be attributed.
Degrading Work for Rich.
Murder, however,, was only a. part
of th tnln tHot 'Vllna nart tn Aim.
close. The day after the Bolsheviks
arrived nere tney published the names
of fifty-two persons, everyone of
whom. It was announced had been
arbitrarily assessed at 100,000 marks.
