The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-22
STROTHERS IS IN EXCHANGED
Writes Postmaster Greene
 of Life in Northern Siberia.

An interesting letter has been re-
 ceived by Postmaster Charles F. Green from Shelby Strothers, form
 erly a Remington Arms Employee,
 now of the American Consular Serv-
 ice. stationed at Archangel, Russia.
 With the letter came a copy of "T7he
 American Sentine1' newspaper print
 ed by the soldiers of the American
 North Russian Expeditionary Forces.
 In the following quoted letter Mir.
 Strother gives the reader a very good
 Idea of conditions existing in the Sf-
 berian Republic capital:
 American Consular Service, Archan- gel, Russia, December 23, 1918. Charles F. Greene, Esq,
 Postmaster, Bridgeport. Conn.
 Dear MT. Greene:-
 May I trouble you to have my ad- dress changed from 16S West Liberty Street, Bridgeport, to Care of Depart
 ment of State, Washington, D. c. I
 am not sure whether I have made this
 request before or not. l have letters
 from the States which may indicate
 that some mail for me might have
 gone to my old address.
 It Is quiet here behind the firing lines located along the rivers and rail- roads between the Bolsheyi1s and us. Now and then we have some excite ment here in Archangel but I cannot tell of it. I was on the railroad at the front a few days ago and saw Can adian gunners smelling the Boishivik trenches. With American officers l
 was in one of our front outposts, a machine gun position manned by the
 French, and we could see with the aid of our glasses the shells strike 1.70C yards down the track. We lived in box l cars and ate In a kind of diner" in other words. another box car. Our men are in good spirits and doing 1 their bit.
 Ambassador Francis is in England l and the French Ambassador has just i left for France. All the other ern- bassies and missions are intact, as they i were when compelled to flee out ot | Vologda. We have what is left of the American and French Embassies, the Italian, Japanese, Serbian, Brazilian l Chinese and British.
 The city is badly congested We have a vast staff of British officers l hospitals, Y. M. c. A, Y. W. c. A. ] Red Cross and many missions of all varieties and a multitude of refugees i Food is not plentiful though we have an abundance for ourselves. Some ot the outlying districts are short of food 1 because they are now inaccessible. The ! Red Cross has been supplementing the i feeding of the school kiddies here as l there was evidence of maluutriton 1 Influenza was checked some time i ago. We lost 80 American soldiers | with it after they first arrived in Sep ] tember. There were two funerals 2 1 day for days and at last one a day | with a skip now and then. All were i soldiers.
 Punches of Bo1shevik prisoners art
 marched past the Consulate under | guard. Troops of Russo British Mill ! tary pass. Now and then we have tC appear at the decoration of heroes i in the cathedral square. I saw
 young Bolshivik spy in the hospita, ! the other day who was winged by one 1 of our men. He had four bullets 1T 1 him and was doing well. These thing! 1 tell us that the war in not over fol us here in Russia.
 1 Life is gay though. We have dance! | at American Headquarters every Sat
 urday night. At all times there art 1 dinner parties, orchestral concerts
 boxing and fencing exhibits, theatrtca ! performances by good players-refu i gees from Petrograd; and the place i Is not at all dry. With personal re i gards.
 l Very Sincerely Yours,
 SHELBY STROTHER P g, am incIosing a copy of oul
 weekly paper issued by the soldier! i of our forces here.
 1 The newspaper. '"The American Sentinel is a newsy little sheet O four pages containing late dispatche of recent events along with inforna
 ton relative to Russian affairs. It i printed in English, French fold, oI 1 Japanese rice paper.