The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
Horrors Worse Than Kishineff
Charged Against Russia To-day

blood have been shed. No n can
imagine the agony that the Russians
have inflicted upon us.
How can I begin to describe these
scenes as I should like to portray them
TO you? I have not the power. ! wish
you could have IA story published
in the American newspapers az II Is
permitted). We should write and write
Of our experiences and never cease.
I think in America they must know
something Of the Russian atrocities.
still in such an enlightened coun-
try az America the people will scarcely
believe that such things could happen
in the twentieth century. But 1t Is
a great wonder too that such a world
war Is tolerated and no effort Il made
to check It. From afar they watch 30
much innocent b~loodshed. &C many
young lives shattered. They don't
seem to mind.
1T appears that the world has
grown accustomed to horror and
crime: that II does not understand, 1t
does not realize how great and heinous
these outrages are that are being COM
mitted on the bsttiefelds. We have
thrown all sense of shame to the winds
and are sinking deeper and deeper
into mire and crime.
III you could only see what has be-
come Of the beautiful East Prussia.
what the ruthless Russians have made
OF it-just as II a wild boar had been
turned loose in n rich vineyard. What
he can he devours and the rest he
must drag with him. And II he cannot
L. tG- ~ ,pAn nil tho
lovely vines and digs them up by the
roots. When he Is done no one would
ever dream hat a beautiful garden
once grew there.
NO. even this IL not a fair COM
parison. 1t Is true the Russians be-
haved like wild beasts. We had
enough outrages Of our W to endure
at their hands, but We almost forgot
our sorrows when. night after night.
we saw hundreds OF fires across the
Prussian border. Every evening the
sky would be turned into a huge
blazing sheet. just as IL the whole
world were cnveloped in flames. What
was not burned was ~plundersd.
They used to bring their booty
over TO Poland and sell Il here. The
large. fine Prussian COWS which cost
at least 400 marks were sold for 10
rubles. Horses that surely were worth
| 900 marks the Cossacks and the SOL
diers sold for 20 or 80 rubles.
Among the Russian soldiers there
were often good men who used TO tell
US, with tears In their eyes, OF the
atrocities they had witnessed in East
Prussia. They would say that what
happened beggared description. There.
men were not going to war, but 10
plumber. Many a poor woman was
robbed and left destitute with her
little children. The unfortunate VIC
tins were not allowed to leave the
ruined cities. They could not even
cross their fields because the Russians
would declare them spies-and that
meant they were shot.
THE results Of such accusations
one a easily imagine. Through the
city OF Neustadt droves of little chill
frosts. The soldiers beat with their
guns those who were weak and could
not march quickly. Then, too, the
soldiers are FREQ to rob the property
of the Germans who are driven into
exile. Many Of them sven brag that
they cut on the fingers OF German
boys so that they could not 90 to the
front to help their accursed Wilhelm.
One could soon grow mad from the
stories the soldiers told. Words fail
me. The wounds are still unhealed.
They wiring my heart.
"A whole drove Of soldiers and on
GERS came and filled our house and
u yard. They demanded eggs. butter,
meat, &c. They won't take no 70,
an answer For them we must pro-
vide everything. And when We place
before them on the table all the food
that we can scrape together In the
house we have to taste everything
first.
"'You haven't by n chance put
poison in the food, have YOU? they
cry. You false. t~reacherous spies.
You are not above any villainy. Just
taste It yourself first That is the
thanks we get for our trouble.
when they slaughtered our sheep
in the fall, and mother begged them
to leave a few. the soldiers answered.:
"'What r you standing around
here for? If you like we'll cut your
throat too as we're going to do after
the war. Then you will see what you'll,
get for selling your Fatherland 10
the Germans
And because of this suspicion they
hanged thousands of innocent Jews
and SEM many more to Siberia.
Whenever they suffer defeat they re-
new their accusations. Many Jews
are missing In Neustadt. Some have
gone to the great beyond: others are
pining in prisons. Many have been
exiled to ArchanRel.
"S~oloveitschik, the dry goods mer-
chant, buried his silver In the sta bic
because there were many fires on ac-
count Of the cannon When the Ger
mans were driven back into East
Prussia he went to dig up his silver
because he was plannils to leave for
Russia. A soldier found him holding
a shovel. The soldier Immediately &C
cused him of digging a telephone fol
the Germans and demanded 500
rubles.
IAN officer soon came up. Solove!t.
schlk Is now in Siberia. In vain his
o ran to the Governor. The mos
respected men In the city were onl,
too eager to vouch for his integrity
But he was exiled.
"Winkelstein. a old man Of 70
started a fire In his stove with We
twigs. A dense black smoke rose from
his chimney, He was arrested on tn,