The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-08-08

4 hundred and fifty marks: kilO.
gramme of sugar one hundred marks,
etc. Also Finland tried to get rid Of
so many people she had to feed. and.
as the bol>heviki Who come up to IS
kilumeterS from IL had been re-
pulsed by the Finn troops. which had
ut the last moment come in aid to the
Let's and to the volontaire corps Of
BaltheS-GermanS. the Films then or.
dere'' all fuglives to leave the country
within six days. However, we re-
reived, on account of my husbands bad
condition. permission to stay until he
would get better
Going back was an imrossihility,
the situation being still very grave: Il
second expedition was no longer pos.
sible for the strength Of my poor hus-
band: moreover. we had nothing left.
Our large city house was taken and
turned into q hospital by a Russian
| vclontaire corps. NJ devastated
and plundered. First by the bolshe-
wiki, then by the Esths, whom the
N'Nl iiHii~ XII E'tiiilNiltu. tIitIi bN tllt
white troops ana the Firms, who We're
fighting the reds. German properties
being left unmoleSted.
Family Lost Everything.
Last year our estate had suffered.
bur our magnificent castle with al its
dependencies had been respected. Now
all have pilla@ed il. The Firms being
/ more civilized stole the most beautiful
thing>-paintngS bronZeS. antiques.
etc. Finally the SO masters rooms and
the II servants rooms were Numbered.
What they could not take away they
smashed or burned. We lost every
thing. Not sheet. not a plate or a
glass exist. and when our intendant
complained to the minister of state Ga
! TheSthe). he answered him that nat
urally in war time everybody wanted
10 have some souvenirs. The whites
pillased, as | hear, SO estates. and they
We're supposed to be our defenders
''F'riends here obtained for us the
permission To come to H. where we
found two rooms in Il family. We
hope soon to find some occupation. and
sell some furS that | could take With
NE. for unfortunately mS beautiful
laceS are also in petrugrad.
Il do not know whether YOU have an
idea of what the holSheviki have done
everywhere whenever they had to re.
tire. At W they killed So people
I'VE have lost friends. acquaintance
~ aS.a1l.ps u -.
, most all We're tortured before being pu,
, to death. Before shooting Doctor L
they broke his two legs. To the ole
Baroness H., seventy-two wears old
aftel having opened her stomach
snatched out her inre>tine> while alive
They killed priests, doctors. mobiles
merchants. women, children and peas
ants. They made several persons ii:
their own graves. forcing them to IN
dress: a carriage was waiting 10 take
away their clothes. Then they tor
tured every one. breaking arms anl
inteStines, gouging OUT the eyes. scar
ring the cheeks. and they even burne,
two persons alive.
There We're three large pits: the,
tossed pell nell in one of them III,
living and the dead. and then fhe>,
monsters jumped into the pit all,
trampled under foot the unfortunate
until they We're lifcleSs.
"Twelve persons We're SO crushe,
I and diStigured that they could not "
! recognized. And all that is true.
After the corpSes had been OK
humed the doctors and the officers @
the state took photographs of each. at
ter having examined everyone Of then
] Russia Awaiting the Allies
! AT D.. at W. etc wheneve
the Reds We're repulsed-note. I pra
you, that l say 'everywhere'-,he sam
nate ones. l shall not try to descrh
the hcrrors of other places FOR il ha
been the same everywhere.
al D.. hundreds have bee
thrown under the ice of the river. We
II clement death compared with tn
4 others.
3 thousands die from hunger in a
3 Russia: holsheyism reigns everywher.
1 We had hoped to be delivered by III
Germans and they having failed W
hoped for the allies: now. as an of
! Ger who has escaped from Petrogra
was telling. We do not hope any Longer
We die.
d Russia is anxiOus:y awaiting tn
B help of the allies. for she alone canno
conquer the terrortz'ng b0lshevilki."