Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-15
IN RUSSIA WHEN
 6oLsHEvlKI REVoLTED
Rev. M Mclean Geldie Found condi- tions' In That Country Very Bad.

E Davis theatre was packed to capa- city Sunday afternoon, when Rev. NJ. Mclean Goldie, r. M c A. worker recently returned from Russia spoke on his experience in that land of chaos . Previous to Rev. Mir. Goldie's talk Archibald R. Gilchrist sang two selec-, tons in fine voice and was heartily applauded
 Secretary Edwin Hill who was chair man of the meeting,t made a brief .ad- dress in which he thanked MT. Gill; christ, MT. Newberrv the accompanist SWahn orchestra which furnished the music and Rev. Mr Goldie for their services. Mir. Hill then introduced Rev MT. Goldie, who at one time was rector of Grace Episcopal church at fantic but gave up his pastorate to enter the Y. M. c. A. War Work.
 Rev. MT Goldie said in part: When the war broke out I looked for a way to serve. l put in an application for "" work and was soon stationed at Fort Terry, where made many friends, Yod do not realize what the Y. M. c. A is doing until you see the work in the camps Then came the call for volunteers for foreign service. l volunteered and on the 18th of Sept. started for Rus sla Petrograd was my destination and my. object was to instill little Of, the morale of the Allies into the Russian forces. After a journey of 21 days from, New York by the way of San Francisco arrived in Vladivostok in. Russia.
 After. this journey which was an in- teresting one as well as an exciting one as l experienced a typhoon which ! IS one Of the worst storms known, I found that the conditions in Russia were very bad. The ear had adbi- 1 cated and the government was in the l hands of Kerensky. We thought his power would stand but even then there were signs of revolution Things l were in a state of chaos The soldiers and sailors had rebelled against their | officers and they were in power The Y. NJ. c. A. men I was with tried to establish committee to carry on the work but to little avail I preached the first English sermon in the history 1 of Vladivostok but it had little inn pression. In Vladivostok I saw a Rus sian admiral who was trying to get a l living by serving as a porter The people of Russia are uneducated as only about ten percent of them can read or write. The officers are. well 1 educated and are brave men for all the things that are laid up against them | After a few days we started for
 Petrograd and after a trying journey
 of F days we arrived there. Every
 thing was in a state of turmoil The revolution was in full swing The
 winter palace of the czar was held by
 Kerensky. In walking down the street
 one could see the beautiful buildings l full of bullet holes and marked with | a 0f IT.
 Petrograd that I saw the Battalion oi Death. On the eve of the counter
 revolution this regiment of the tinest l women 1 have ever seen marched into
 Petrograd and took up quarters in the
 winter palace, On the following day after l had obtained passport from the KerenSky government which bl l the way is the last passport issued bt that government the Bolsheviki started
 their revolution. saw the last gener.
 als of the Russian army march ou'
 under the guard of the Bolsheviki
 The Bolsheviki after hot fighting tool the Battalion of Death prisoners. They violated these women and then killed | 1S0 of them. It was after. this that :
 managed to get back to FIadivostoI
 and from there to the States l In closing Rev. Mir. Goldie spoke O ? ASI1IS anu IEOlShy, say HE that ~lnei | were the vilest of men and were tn, devilish agents of the German govern.
 ment.s The speaker produced a lettel
 showing that these two had received
 compensation indirectly from German,
 for stirring up strife in Russia MT
 Goldie spoke in the highest terms O the British ambassador and tn,
 French. He urged the people of Nor.
 wich to realize that they must be- uI and doing and bring this war to
 successful termination He said W,
 must sacrifice buy Bonds and d, everything in our power to help. w. must concentrate our energy. We mus l never lose this war. In closing h, 1 said, We may see terrible condition. but we will never see defeat. Tn,
 American people will drop dead besid, the Flag before they will yield to tn. tpcwers of hell.
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