(Daily Telegraph Batoum Correspondent.)

Life in Baku under Lenin’s Soviet Government during the last eight weeks affords an atrocious contrast to the professions made by Lenin’s emissaries to the West. The criminal imposture of Lenin and Krassin surpasses all records, for there is irrefutable evidence before me that the treatment to which the population of Baku and Azerbaijan were to be subjected was elaborately thought out and discussed by the Soviet leaders in Moscow, and he has had full knowledge of the slaughtering of thousands of Mussulmans and Christians indiscriminately whilst he was in London pretending his associates had mended their ways and were seeking peace and understanding with all men.

He must have received regular reports of Bolshevik butchery in Baku and elsewhere in the Caspian Republic with the same facility that his colleagues at Baku regularly obtain the Daily Telegraph and other English journals. A few British have escaped from Baku and Elizabethpol, and more than a few responsible foreigners, who had lived in and freely moved about these towns since the day (April 28) upon which Lenin’s Russian troops occupied them and set up a Soviet Government, manned by men selected by Lenin. The testimony of ten or more Europeans of various nationalities, conversant with the language and with many years’ experience of the locality, has been separately taken on their arrival direct from Baku. One and all, unknown to the others, tell the same story and recount the same facts. The majority were eye-witnesses of the terrible events. Most of the present rulers at Baku were sent from Russia. Pankratoff, an illiterate Russian sailor from the Baltic, and one of the most blood-thirsty of scoundrels, is the most powerful member of the Executive. The Foreign Minister and Minister of Finance is Neriman Nerimanof. These […]