10 MAY 1919, Page 2

Munich was recaptured from the Bavarian Bolsheviks at the end

of last week after sharp fighting in the streets between the Red Guards " and the Government troops. The city sustained considerable damage. It is reported that before the final attack the Bolshevik leaders ordered their hostages to be murdered. Prince Albert of Thum and Taxis and his wife, the Countess Wostarp, the well-known painter Seidlitz, and others, it is said, were done to death in a cellar by Russian mereenariee, By way of reprisal the insurgent chiefs, when captured, were shot. The ringleader Levien, a Russian Bolshevik with a very bad record, got away in an aeroplane but was caught when he landed. Perhaps after this taste of the horrors of war the Munich people will settle down quietly.