Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-23
RUSSIA FRIENDLY TO AMERICA
Swartzkopensly Tells Audience at Bac<us Hospital That American Form of Government is What His Country Wants After the War-Annuai Meeting of the Board of Lady Visitors.

ing walk, secured each day with fine white flour.
 '. Could Not Give Order.
 This starving multitude marching on Swartzkopensky and the 1900 men under him. He was ordered to stop them, to fire on them. When he called on them to stop and they still came on give the order Four hundred other guards were called out and on that day, Bloody Sunday, seven thousand or the populace were killed.
 Imprisoned and. tried by military court, with no lawyer or jury and sentenced to Siberia. for life. He was not sen sfenced to death on account of his his skill with the rifle, being tho best shot in the Russian army and holding the record as being the sixth best in the world.
 A Journey Fluff" of Horrors. He was dressed in prison clothes and shakes weighing s-4 pounds were riveted on his ankles. The jour ney to Nishni, Novgorad was by rail and steamer and from there on by march. The march extending over three months of time and 2,500 miles in distance. while he was in shackles. was full of horrors and he was skeleton at its close.
 Since he was 8 political prisoner, he was doomed to live in a dungeon, 6 by 1-2 feet, in almost total darkness. not allowed to talk to anyone .or hear from his people, solitary and stiii in shackles. He lost health and cour- age.
 But still his indomitable spirit plan- ned escape and finally, after three years of this agony of existence, four teen prisoners succeeded in burst for liberty, and gained their freedom.
 After untold hardships and suffer ing, nine of them succunbing to star vation, the remaining five won back to Russia, having walked for four months in the wilderness. Tolstoy hefriended this brave man, and after a time he sought for his family, only to find that his wife had died of a Russia and since coming to this coun- try. his son Of twenty six years, hss s heen killed in battle, as well as his twin brother. His mother is gone. Yet, he plans to go back at the end Of the war to work for the people. ' z. Few opeortupities. He spoke of the Russian people as They have produced some great men, Tolstoy, GorNy, Goska and others. But the middle and lower classes have been kept in subjeotion. The church and state have been one and the ruler and mobility one. The czar has had. an income of 24 million roubles yearly-a roubIe being 54 cents on d dollar, the czarina 10, 900 900 troubles and each royal child 5000, ,000 roubles.
 Sixty mine per cent of the Russian people. are il1iterate. Just now Rus sia is in great need. It takes S15 to buy meal Ladies shoes cost $140 d pair. The very poorest shoes cost $:s5 and they are standing in line to buy bread tickets. Friendly to America. S
 Russia, is friendly to America. She always has been. And she has done great work in this. war. She kept Germany from invading France too far. And after the war the American form of government is the government Russia wants.
 The impression left by this lecture was that Russia is nation of high ideals. of desires for the noble things of life. the opportunities afforded by education. only hampered by the op- pression of centuries. But the vital instinct of true patriotism and nobility of soul is their.