The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-06-16
Is SOUND AND HEALTHY DESPITE
Els FRyGETFUL ASSOCIATIONS
AND ROUGH EXPERIENCES.
Pipe" Declares That "stew" was his
Sole Article Of Diet While he was
In the Service.
Enlisted Last August With CANADIAN
Army and Arrived in Russia With
Thermometer 40 Below Zero.

ll0rCu lSCcu r T3SncT, D'll'I htlo"' O.
Pipe" former Int"lligcnCcr reporter
quietly slipped OF the Wheeling & Lake
Eric train Saturday night after it's ar
rival At III" station. Pipe" has return
ed SAT" and sound after four months
service with the Canadian army IN
Siberia Unfortunately tho daily news
papers are printed on ordinary news
print and would not hold Mr.. Frash"r's
opinion OF Siberia; he had picturesque
opinion Of an unpCturcsQuc country and
expressed 1t in a forciblc manner, de-
Irlcd with blanks. dashes and astcrisks.
Pipe" gave up moldmg public opinion
carly last August and Joined up with
the Canadian army, signing the articles
at the local British-Canadian recruiting
! mission which sent HIM to Kingston.
Ontario. from there to Fort Niagara on
Lake Ontario and thence to Victoria.
British Columbia. ALI the time gong
through intensive training.
He was with tho 359th battalion. {. h.
r. =. and left Victoria on tn" transport
Protisllicus for VladivostoCk, taking
twcnty-onc days to make the trip. One
Of the incidents OF the voyage was tho
losing Of one of the propcllers OF the
vessel. which hampercd her speed. The
rest of the journey was very common
place except the food. which WAS next
10 nothing. as the soldiers were fed stow.
nothing but stew; stow in the morning.
stew at dinner and stew for supper. II
you mention stew in any shape or form
TO ''P:pc" ~ holds up his right hand ana
SAYS Never again"
We landed at VladavostoCk on Janu-
ary 18th. with the weather just about
forty below zero. Before disemoark-
ing We were rationed a cup or concc
and a piece of bread each.' said ilpc.
Our clothes were not suited lot inc
Siberian weather which was another joy
killer. We had TO hike for twclr" mii'S
over cobhlestoncs covered with n INN
LAYER Of ice. We finally arrived at IN"
barracks which were mlS"rah'" al hrSI
but We finally got accustomed to them
Every race in the world was repre-
scented AT Vladavostnck in the form OF
soldiers or workers. There wcr" ton
thousand American troops and hH'
thousand Canadians to say nothing OF
the British. French and Indians.
tVladayostoCk is heavily fortified and Is
known ms tho "GihralIcr Of tho FAST
and is a typical military fortress whore
everything is Chc"rl"sS and all houses
Of one color--a dull gray. which be-
comes monotonouS.
after a few days stay in III" cry
VIC wcrc taken to a camp about ''Gh'
miles out. The day tha, We r"achrd
camp II was forty-ivc below zero ana
the residents who could speak hnGilSh
said il was the mildcst WINTER LOT
years.
"An English contingent arrived from
India wearing the uniforms worn !"
India which were very light ana ~"
poor fellows almos, frozr 10 death null
were finally fixed up with su''ao'e
clothing.
STOW seems 10 hc the only hing
Canadian and British camp cook knows
in tho culinary art, for "" had nr"'h'r
siege Of stow after We arrived ut camp
Tho soldiers carried tho water from IA"
springs. quite a distance away. ana cmH-
tied IL into huge watts. Tho cooks would
then cut up frozen vegetables and throw
them in. This bill Of far" with r"t''n
bread was what W" had Ia live ON. i
! WAS in the hospital for three weeks with
topsiliris which was the only sickness
| ! had, for must have a wonderful col
| stitutinn after eating the chow served
\ to me-.
4 The weather WAS extremely cold, and
\ tho winter nights wcr" very long: W."
only had n fcw hours Of Daylight. All
\ of tho entertainment was dNro Hm"mG
tho mrn themselves. and talked 10
some soldiers who had hc"n IN III"
front in France who said that they
II would lots rather take "hHn""* II tn"
i big battles on the western front than
Y stay in thar hole
|! "a detachment Of the B"lShcvjst army
Il was about thirty-unC miles away. Ono
Il dav some pri$oDcrS wcr" brought in.
: / and never saw such mIs"rahl" people
before II was ritiful They looked
like they had reached tho lowest runG
Of humanity. old mon and young boys
in rags undcrf"d and poorly armed.
These wcrc f"d and rUt To work with
tho other prisoners. for "" had Turks II.
German and Austrian prisoners.
h, All the Russians hat III" English
speaking people hut W" got along nicely
4 with the Korean: and M"ncolians. TIL"
( English were cordially hated by III"
, Russians and | might add that they
wCrc also unpopular with tn" Canadian .
and Americans. Tn" Establishments ways
are provincial for nc thinks that thcrc
is nothing 81 any consequent" "uts'd" "
I England. The Canadians and Americans
: did not like that 50 they Chumm"d to-
} gethcr. ! do not mean that every Eng
lishman has that disposition as there
arc som" who arc mighty fine follows
M, tho rank and file--wcll had better
, let il ro NJ that
II can tell you il was happy bunch
when We got orders to embark for home
which VIC did on May 10. coming home
on tho Empress Of Russia. w" arrived
without mishap. went through all the
formaltics Of disCharg" and jumped the
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