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 in mind when judging of the ideality and humanity of the Red.

It has a certain interest to see what trades and classes are chiefly represented among the murdered. A hastily made out list of 624 shows the following distribution:—

The list shows that it is above all the rural districts which have been ravaged. The first group, which mainly embraces peasants, but also landed proprietors, stewards, and inspectors, together with the third group, mainly embracing the staffs of various works, constitutes half of the whole number. The largest group but one, the students and schoolboys, comprises such who were either suspected of belonging to the Protective Corps, or really did belong to them, and either tried to get to the White through the lines of the Red, or were fugitives after their separate corps had been beaten by the Red. Though they could thus be reckoned as belonging to the forces