The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-31
Sadie HurwitZ Arrives To Make
Home With Brother.
She Says Slavs Will Pay Amy
Price for Peace.
EVEN LET KAISER RULE THEM
She Tells of Civilians Dying in
Bread Line.
Soldiers Absolutely Refuse To
Do Any More Fighting.

The great masses of common people
in Russia want peace first, last and
for all time. They do not look with
trust and favor upon the kaiser. yet
they would submit to his rule rather
than continue in war. Two great cries
are heard in the most expansive of the
worlds empires. One of the cries is
''Peace." The other is Bread"
Struggling Russia. Starving Russia
Chaotic Russia. That is the way
Sadie Hurwitz. a sister of NJ. ]. Hur-
W1tz, a dairyman at Seventeenth and
Lake streets, described her country
today, after arriving here to visit her
brother. She left Chernigof, her
/ home, the capital of the province of
Chernigof, in Little Russia, October 4,
and accompanied by her sister. Zipen,
made her way thru Siberia, thru
Japan and across the Pacific to the
Golden Gate.
1t took many weary months to trav-
ell the distance, but at her Russian
home starvation was on every hand,
the authorities had ordered the popu-
lace, if it desired, to move back, for
the Austrian troops were coming and
she had heard of the way of Austrians
with Russian women. In her broth
ers home in Kansas there was plenty,
wheat flour did not cost $50 the forty
pounds, bread other than that made
of rye and chaff was obtainable and
shoes didn't cost 500 a pair, as they
did in Chernigof.
Cannot Speak English.
Today, with her sister by her side,
and seated in her brothers COM
Portable home, Miss Hurwitz told in a
straightforward manner about the
Russia she had left. She told the
story thru an interpreter, her brother,
as she cannot speak English
Yes" she said, 1.-The Russians-the
common people-want peace. They'll
do anything to get it. If peace can
only come after the kaiser rules Rus
sia the common people want him to
hurry up and rule.
AT the beginning of the war they
came and took hundreds of young men
from Chernigof. Not one of them
come back. The Russians have no
munitions now They had but little
at the beginning of the war. Soldiers
wore rags around their feet
THE people are starving. The daily
bread ration in Chernigof is half
pound loaf made from rye and chaff.
Shoes are $40 to $50 a pair and a
suit of clothes costs 500 rubles, which
would have been $3.50 in American
money before the value of Russian
money went down.
81 have seen civilians stand in the
bread line and faint, and die" she
said.
mobiIized the women in Chernigof to
dig trenches on the battle front What
became of them, 1 don't know. No
one knows. They never came back
and no one heard of them again
Soldiers Will Not Fight.
"When 1 left, Chernigof was about
$50 miles behind the fighting lines
We got orders to move back. Our
men were throwing away their arms
and letting the Austrians come on.
They are tired and weary of fighting
and wanted to let the Austrians take
the ground and have the fighting over
with
"All the soldiers are coming horne.
They refuse to fight any longer"
Miss Hurwitz sees internal trouble
in Germany While the common peo-
pie refuse to fight any longer, the
Russians are sending Socialists into
Germany to stir up the common peo-
pie of Germany. These Socialists go
men and women against the kaiser.
This is the way Russia is now trying
to overthrow the kaiser, she asserts.
The Russian woman gave an idea
of some of the reasonable methods
pursued by the deposed czar.\ When
the czar ruled, she declared, cap
tured German prisoners were re-
leased and allowed to go back home.
The Austrians were thrown into
Germans captured into prison, but,
she said, no German prisoners are
captured. 9
Miss Hurwftz will live with her
brother in Topeka after making a
trip to Camp Funston to visit another
brother, S. w. Hurwitz, who is SOL
dier in the national army.