TYER, _September 9th_.--The Extraordinary Commission has arrested and sent to concentration camps over 130 hostages from among the bourgeoisie. The prisoners include members of the Cadet Party, Socialists-Revolutionists of the Right, former officers, well-known members of the propertied class, and policemen. Two days later, September 12th, the same journal contained the following: ATKARSK, _September, 11th_.--Yesterday martial law was proclaimed in the town. Eight counter-revolutionaries were shot. On September 18, 1918, the _Severnaya Communa_ published the following evidences of the wide-spread character of the terrorism which the Bolsheviki were practising: In Sebesh a priest named Kikevitch was shot for counter-revolutionary propaganda and for _saying masses for the late Nicholas Romanov_. In Astrakhan the Extraordinary Commission has shot _ten Socialists-Revolutionists of the Right involved in a plot against the Soviet power_. In Karamyshev a priest named Lubinoff and a deacon named Kvintil have been shot for _revolutionary agitation against the decree separating the Church from the State_ and for an appeal to overthrow the Soviet Government. In Perm, _in retaliation for the assassination of Uritzky and for the attempt on Lenin, fifty hostages from among the bourgeois classes and the White Guards were shot_. The shooting of innocent hostages is a peculiarly brutal form of terrorism. When it was practised by the Germans during the war the world reverberated with denunciation. That the Bolsheviki ever were guilty of this crime, so much more odious than anything which can be charged against czarism, has been many times denied, but the foregoing statement from one of their most influential official journals is a complete refutation of all such denials. Perm is more than a thousand miles from Petrograd, where the assassination of Uritzky occurred, and no attempt was ever made to show that the fifty hostages who were shot, or any of them, were guilty of any complicity in the assassination. It was a brutal, malignant retaliation upon innocent people for a crime of which they knew nothing. The famous “Decree No. 903,” signed by Trotsky, which called for the taking of hostages as a means of checking desertions from the Red Army, was published in _Izvestia_, September 18, 1918: Decree No. 903: Seeing the increasing number of deserters, especially among the commanders, orders are issued to arrest as hostages all the members of the family one can lay hands on: father, mother, brother, sister, wife, and children. The evening edition of _Severnaya Communa_, September 18, 1918, reported a meeting of the Soviet of the first district of Petrograd, stating that the following resolution had been passed: