Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-08-01

b'"'ihe VI sugar one hundred marks,
etc Also Finland tried to get rid of
so many people she had to feed, and.
as the bolsheviki who come IN to 2S
kilometers from RI 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 the country
within six days. However, we re-
celved' on account Of my husbands bad
condition, permission to stay until he
would get better.
Going back was an lmpossibiity,
the situation being still very grave;
second expedition was no longer DOS
slble for the strength of my poor hus-
band; moreover, we had nothing left.
Our large city house was taken and
turned into hospital by Russian
volontaire corps. M devastated
and plundered! First by the bolshe-
Wiki. then by the Esths, whom the
Germans left unpublished; then by the
white troops and the Films, 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 plllaged ii. The Films being
more civilized stole the most beautiful
things-palntings, bronzes, antiques,
etc. Finally the 60 masters rooms and
the III servants rooms were plundered
What they could not take away they
smashed or burned. We lost every
thing. Not sheet. not u 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
TO have some souvenirs. The whites
plllaged, rs hear, so estates, and they
were supposed to be our defendersl
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 TO re-
tire. At W they killed SO 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 lntestines while alive.
They killed priests. doctors, mobiles,
merchants, women, children and peas
ants. They made several persons dig
their own graves, forcing them to un-
dress; carriage was waiting to take
away their clothes. Then they tor.
tured every one, breaking arms and
legs, crushing the limbs, snatchlng 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 llfeless.
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, af-
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
tortures were inflicted to the unfortu.
nate ones. l shall not try to describe
the horrors Of other places, for It has
been the same everywhere.
"At D., hundreds have been
thrown under the ice of the river, vet
a clement death compared with the
others.
thousands die from hunger in all
Russia; boshevism reigns everywhere.
We had hoped to be delivered by the
Germans, and they having failed we
hoped for the allies; now, as an off.
Ger who has escaped from Petrograd
was telling, we do not hope any longer,
we die
Russia is anxiously awaiting the
help Of the allies, for she alone cannot
the terrorizing bolsheylki."