Jackson County journal., 1919-08-15

hundred and fifty marks: ki,o-
sraihme or sugar one hundred marks
etc. Also Finland tried tn pot rid %
% ila people she had to feed, and.
as the bolsheviki who come I'D to %
AiioIneters from R had been re-
pulsed by the Finn troops, which had
at the last moment come in aid to tha
AettS ana to the Goiontaire corns oP
DaitheS-Gerlnalls, the Firms then or
uereo all fugitives to leave the country
"i'iiln SIX days. However, we re-
'ei'eo' on account Of my husbands bad
eohultlon permission to stay until he
would get better.
UolhS back was an imDossjbility
the situation being still very grave. q
second expedition was no longer nos.
sioie Tor the strength Of my poor hus-
oaho moreover, We had nothing left
our large city house was taken and
turned into hospital by Russian
Vclontalre corps. NJ devastated
ana plundered. First by the bolshe-
WIKI then by the Esths, whom tho
Germans left unpublished tban NV tho
wnite troops and the Firms. who were
ngntlns the reds, German properties
being left unmolested
Family Lost Everything.
Last year our estate had suffered
out our magnificent castle with all ira
dependencies had been respected. Now
all nave pillaged it. The Films being
more civilized stole the most beautiful
'hihgs-paintings, bronzes, ANTIQUES
ETC. Finally the 36 masters rooms and
llle II servants rooms were plundered
what they could not take away thev
smashed or burned. We lost evarv.
lhlhS. Not a sheet, not plate or
glass exist and when our jntendant
complained to the minister of state 70
IheSthe), he answered him that no+-
urally IN war time everybody wanted
10 nave some souvenirs. The whites
p1llaged, as l hear, so estates and thet
were supposed to be our defenders,
Friends here obtained for us the
permission to come to k. where va
1ouEd two rooms in family. We
nope soon tc f1nd some occupation and
sell some furs that l could take with
me- for unfortunately my beautiful
laces are also in Petrograd.
Il do not know whether Won have
'uea OF what the bolsheviki have done
everywhere whenever they had TO re-
tire. at w they killed 80 peonle j..
we have lost friends, acuuaintances
ana our excellent and noble doctor AL
most all were tortured before being nut
to death. Before shooting Doctor i
they broke his two legs. To the old
Baroness H., seventy-two years old
aftei having opened her stomach
snatched out her intestines while alive
They killed priests, doctors. mobiles
merchants, women, children and nesS-
ants. They made several persons dio
their own graves, forcing them to m
oress; carriage was waiting to take
away their clothes. Then they tor
tured every one, breaking arms and
legs. crushing the limbs, snatching tho |
intestines, gouging out the ewes soar.
ring the cheeks, and they even burned
two persons alive.
There were three large nlts. +bor
tossed pell nell in one of them tho |
living and the dead, and then these
monsters jumped into the pit and
trampled under foot the unfortunatos
until they were lifeless.
Twelve persons were so crusbad
and disfgured that they could not ho
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. 7 nrov
you, that I say 'everywhere'-thas son,a
tortures were inflicted to the unfortu-
nate ones. | shall not try to describe
the horrors Of other places, for if has
been the same everywhere.
AT D., hundreds have been
thrown under the ice of the river vo+
A clement death compared with tho
others.
thousands die from hunger in all
Russia; bolshevism reigns everywhere
we had hoped to be delivered bv tho
Germans, and they having failed wa
hoped for the allies; now, as an off.
,er who has escaped from Petrogra1
vas telling, we do not hope any longer
We die!
Russia is anxiously awaiting the
lelp OF the allies, for she alone canno,
the terrorizing bolsheviki."