The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-07-31

a hundred and fifty marks; a 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 bolshevlki who come up to 2S
kilOmeters from r. had been re-
pulsed by the Finn troops, which had
mt the last moment come in aid to the
Let's and to the volOntaire corps Of
Balthes-Germans, the Firms then or
dered all fugitives to leave tho country
within six days. However, we re-
ceiyed, on account Of my husbands bad
! condition, permission to stay until he
would get better.
Going back was nm impossibility,
the situation being still very grave: II
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 ana
turned into hospital by Il Russian
vclontnirc corps. M devastated
and plundered! First by the boshe-
wiki, then by the Esths, whom the
Germans left unpublished then by the
white troops and the Firms, who were
fighting the reds, German properties
being left unmolested.
Family Lost Everything
Last year our estate had suffered,
but our magnificent castle with all its
dependencies had been respected. Now
all have pillaged 1t. The Films being
more civilized stole the most beautiful
things-paintings, bronzes, antiques,
etc. Finally the 30 masters rooms and
the II servants rooms were plundered.
What they could not take away they
smashed or burned. We lost every
thing. Not a sheet not a plate or
glass exist, and when our nteudant
complained to the minister Of state Gu
Thesthe), he answered him that nat
urally in war time everybody wanted
to have some souvenirs. The whites
pillaged, as hear, 50 estates, and they
We're supposed to be our defenders!
Friends here obtained for us the
permission to come to K, where we
found two rooms in family. We
hope soon to find some occupation, and
sell some furs that ! could take with
me, for unfortunately my beautiful
laces are also in petrograd
81 do not know whether you have an
idea of what the bolsheviki have done
everywhere whenever they had 10 re-
tire. At W they killed 81 people;
we have lost friends acquaintances
and our excellent and noble doctor. Al
most all were tortured before being put
to death, Before shooting Doctor L
they broke his two legs. To the old
Baroness H.. seventy cwo years Old
after having opened her stomach,
SnntChed out her intestines while alive.
They killed priests, doctors, mobiles.
merchants, women, children and peas
nntS. They made several persons dig
their own graves, forcing them to un-
dress; n carriage was waiting to take
away their clothes. Then they tor
turcd every one breaking arms and
legs, crushing the limbs. snatching the
gouglng out the eyes, scar
ring the cheeks and the, even burned
two persons alive
There were three large pits; they
tossed pell nell in one Of them the
living ana the dead and then these
jumped into the pit and
tramplcd under foot the unfortuuatcs
until they were llfcless.
Twelve persons were so crushed
ana dlsngured that they could not be
recognized Aud all that is truel
"After the corpsoS had been cx-
mumcd the doctors and the officers of
the state took photographs Of each, af-
ter having examined everyone of them.
Russia Awaiting the Allies
AT D., at W, etc. whenever
the Reds were repused mote | pray
you. that say 'everywhere-the same
torturrs were inflicted to the unfortu-
nate ones shall not try TO describe
the hcrrors Of other places, for It has
been the same everywhere.
AT D., hundreds have been
thrown under the ice If the river, yet
il element death compared with the
others
thousands die from hunger in All
Russia; bolshevism relgns everywhere.
We had hoped 60 be delivered by the
Germans and they having failed we
hoped for the allies; now, as mn OH
Ger who has escaped from petrogrud
WAS telling we do not hope any longer,
We diet
Russia Is nnxiously awaiting the
help Of the allies. for she alone cannot
the terrorlzIng bolsheyiki."