Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-08-01

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the situation being still very grave; a
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 a hospital by Russian
yolontaire corps. M devastated
and plundered! First by the holshe-
Wiki, then by the Esths, whom the
Germans left unpublished; then by the
white tro0psand the Firms, who were
fishting the reds, German properties
being left unmolested.
Family Lost Everything.
Last year our estate had suffered,
but our magnificent castle with all it's
| dependencies had been respected. Now
all have pillaged ii. The Firms being
more civilized stole the most beautiful
! things-paintings bronZes, antiques,
etc. Finally the sc masters rooms and
I rhe IL servants rooms were plundered.
What they could not take away they
smashed or burned. We lost every
thing. Not sheet, not plate or a
glass exist. and when our intendant
complained to the Minister Of state "a
| Ihesthe), he answered him II ar nat
urally in war time everybody wanted
Ia have some souvenirs The whites
piliaged as hear. so estates. and they
were supposed to no our defenders
Friends here obtained for MS the
permission to come to X. 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.
II do not know whether you have an
idea of what the bolsheviki have done
everywhere whenever they had to re-
tire. At W they killed 81 people;
we have lost friends, acquaintance
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-two years old,
after having opened her stomach.
snatched out her intestines while alive.
They killed priests. doctors. mobiles,
merchants, women, children ard peas
ants. They made several persons dig
their own graves, forcing them To un-
dress; a carriage was waiting TO take,
away their clothes. Then they tor
tured every one, breaking arms and
legs. crushing the limbs. snatching the
intestines gouging out the eyes. scar
ring the cheeks. and they even burned
two persons alive.
There were three large pits; they
tossed pell nell in one Of them the
living and the dead, and then these
monsters jumped into the pit and
trampled under foot the unfortunates
until they were lifeless
''Twelve persons were so crushed
and disfgured that they could not be
recognized and all that IS true,
after the corpses had been ex-
humed the doctors and the officers of
the state took photographs Of each. at
ter having examined everyone Of them.
Russia Awaiting the Allies
"At D.. at W, etc. Whenever
the Reds were repulsed-note. pray
you, that say everywhere the same
fortunes were indicted to the unfoitu-
nate ones. l shall not try to describe
the horrors Of other places. for it has
been the same everywhere
eat D., hundreds have been
thrown under the ice Of the river yet
"a clement death compared with the
others
"T'housands die from hunger in all
Russia bolsheyism reigns everywhere.
We had topped TO be delivered by the
Germans, and they having failed we
hoped for the allies; now. as an Off
Ger who has escaped from Petr0grad
was telling, we do not hope any longer.
we die!
Russia Is anxiOusly awaiting the
helm Of the allies for she alone canuof