Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-16

night TO obtain one pound OF sugar.
townspeople organized comrnittoo
buy sugar In common, but etiu W4'
people must stand In line to get IT, NJ
COAL SHORTAGE WORST OF ALI,
Then came the more terrible trcubio-4;
tine shortage of coal. When ! think ~ A
that my heart bleeds for the peopIo- n N
RuEsian winter and no coal W0u1@u. A
died standing In line or fought INA
beasts for precedence. Many, after eV<<
fering and waiting for hours. returu14t'
home to find the children whom tN4y1
hoped TO succor. frozen to death. ,sTH4*'
factories were closed SO that the. po0FE
people were penniless and suffering. n
There was no heat for the shops anG'l
they were closed also. There was ~ :,
gas and no electric light. My mothf1<
stood from in the morning until 3 inH
the evening to get 200 pounds Of coek.3
People, freezing. left the line. saytnGs 4
we had better die at home" Tho
people became frantic. 1t was said that
cSal or sugar was hidden in the church
desperate women tore up the hoor1no
and fought the Cossacks who came to I
stop them. KY
Then came the bread shortage. The
riots that followed when bread could
not be obtained were terrible. At first
the people believed that the Turks, who
controlled all the bakeries of the town,
were boarding bread and -four. That,
OF course, was not true but the Turks
we're not able TO make the people believe
| them when they said 20. When the
sale OF all these products was rogt-
lated by card conditions were not much
better. Persons who were one day late
in presenting cards could not get sup
plies for another month. My father
paid three and n half rubles a pound
for sugar and did IL secretly and in fear
of arrest.
BY this time every house OF a we'll
tn-do family in the town had its quotn
or wounded soldiers TO care for. The
poor, suffering men were not unwelcou1e
We srieved only that we could not bet,
ter care for them. There were six u
our house. and my mother and !. who
had taken our training of the military
doctors, nursed them. When they were
{ bringing one young man to our house Z
| woman who had stood in line all dav
placed her packet of sugar in his hand
and prayed for him. That was the
! spirit of our women In all this terrible
! Tune. with the soldiers in our house
we divided. in share and share for each
! person, what we had. They were from
three fronts of battle, the Turkish. fke
! German and the Austrian They wera
brave and suffered In silence. Two OF
them died One was the soldier who
wept with my mother when ! said that
! was about to join the Battalion ~
/ Death. ~
During all of this time every day. the
German airplanes from the Turkish
'front.' passed over the town. They were
Ike NuItures looking down ufJopo our
deaths and waiting for the end.
That was the Taganrog left to ioin
,lie battalion OF Death. That was the
russia whence sprang the battalion or
Death to become ptiful. bloody bIot
on Russia's history
copyright. 1915 by the Bell Syndicate Inc
storV %'eTNeTt oy week. in the. fifth and last
in H ,rnr'dy Journey Across siberia Seeking Refues
hhToss hcTro So siberia the girl soldier transportins
| ". aseu tather ana mother TO a riacc ~
| shletff. nome OF health and comforf II,
! tnc tily OF Taganrog abandoned as IN stoo,i
rssriul eAtOrtions upon helpless ira veIsrs
@ @snu hwful privations endured. Six thousand
Tuoies Tor three second-class passages froy,,
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