The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-12

your incomi- 7 steamer or from one of the surrounding hills in May is a sight never to be forg 5tten. It sur passes Hong Kong. not in grandeur. but in variety of beauty. It's colors in sky and sea under a May sun are alluring. It reminds one of a Nor weglan ford minus the gloom, and it's harbor has been named the Col den Horn because of some likeness to Constantinople. Around the har- bor winds tho well built, paved and street-carried Svetlanskaya Street with side streets climbing the hills o~ wandering off into villages like the tcntacies of an octopus. Forts sur mount every hill and dot every is- land, and solid spacious barracks suf- ficient for a great army are every where.
 The population of the cily is almost a quarter of O million, or four times it's normal capacity. Woe unto you if you seek @ few feet of shelter at night. Also woe unto you If you fight your way into a. street car without previous practice in the New York subway and have not a pocket full of postage stamps to pay your fare.
 Russia is here with It's fine assort- ment of consonants, but who owns Vladivostok nobody knows. Trim warships of the Entente lie at an chor. Everybody runs the Trans Siberian Railroad. The street, for there is only one street worth talk ing about. is filled with people of all nations. They are well dressed and tattered, bourgeois and proletariat civil and military, all concerned about two questions-the ruble and the kolchak Government There are fearsome Boisheviki here on the quiet. They ruled the city for six months last year with wonderful mOdera ton in that they committed no general massacre of the ''Intelli- gentsia." The moderation, however WAS furnished by the guns of the British warship Suffolk, which poked it's nose in at the psychological mo mont A train of Czech soldiers ap- pear, and after sixty minutes battle at the station Bolshevism dissolved. Siberia with Vladivostok and Omsll as the bases is being organized to re deem Russia. The fighting is far away but the evidence is here. Train loads of drafted men are being rush ed westward to the fronts beyond the Urals. British officers are conducting a training school for Russian naval officers to be used later on the Amur and the Volga.
 Japan is active and is everywhere. Every kind of old war vessel avail able is being scraped and refitted in tho drydocks. Red Cross trains are regularly being fitted, filled with meli tines, clothes and other ma terial for the relief of western suf- ferers
 The American Red Cross is Amer icl's best exhibit here. It has over 2O5O men and women in it's employ. about one-fourth of them American, and a line of twelve hospitals under it's care, stretching all the way from Vladivostok to the Volga. It has a base here occupying a 5OO-foot front age on the Golden Horn, with sup plies averaging over s2,000,OOO in value. Its personnel comprises cap able energetic men and women from almost all walks in life, and it's or ganization, only now effected, is the work of a group of men of large ex- perience, two of them freely contrib uted by a widely known hardware concern in St. Louis.
 Its activities are manifold. In Vlad ivostok, Irkutsk, Omsk and Tomsk it cares for refugees, vast multitudes Of V nom tumbled into Siberia last year living in trains, dugouts, huts and railway stations. It has organized schools for their children and fought against disease, dirt and idieness in their ranks During the dark days of the revolution in Petrograd a group of families sent away a. train load of children in care of teachers to find safety in Siberia They duly arrived,
 
 the children became pitiful vasrants. some of their teachers desertins. Th-e Red Cross learned of the fact and rounded up the children. or as many as could be found, and now has a children's colony where over 300 children are cared for.
 Typhus broke out last winter under the awful conditions prevailing, and the Red Cross, with Allied help, built and fitted out typhus train that leff Vladivostok on February of this year and fought typhus all the way from Irkutsk to the Volga River. Out of its personnel of thirty-nine under Capt Dallyn, q Canadian, and Capt I:ukeley of Honolulu. fourteen be- came temporary victims of the dis case It's history is terrible reading One paragraph will suffice. It Is MarCh Z1ln. HIS Ol IS on n siding about q mile from the sta ation. on the right track is a trair of sick troops quarantined. On the | track to the left is q train of thirty | two cars filled with prisoners. The l cars. are filthy beyond description | not having been cleaned for weeks 1 On tiers of planks. without mattress ! es or blankets. wrapped in greasy | furs, lie poor dying wretches with | cut any attention whatsoever. Here they had lain for five weeks"
 It required brave men to face thF l task of cleaning these poor bodies, tc disinfect their garments, and strong nerves to witness the sletghs daily removing the piled up dead. Nothing more heroic was seen on this tralr tran the conduct of the Russian aanitars.
 Every two weeks since last Novem her the Red Cross has dispatched C ,r.in of supplies to the west. No, 15 inc last to leave, consisted of twenty three coaches, nine containing hos pital supplies and thirteen clothing provisions and blankets. The esti- mated value of the supplies on eacf train Is s25O,0O0. This was t-7ica ..- o.d 1;l<a all such trains take: