The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1919-08-15

a hundred and fifty marks; kilo-
| gramme of sugar one hundred marks
so many people she had to feed, and,
as the bolsheviki who come up to IS
kilometers from R had been re.
pulsed by the Finn troops, which had
at the last moment come In aid 10 the
Let's and to the volontaire corps of
Balthes- Germans, the Films then or.
dered all fugitives to leave the country
within six days. However. we re-
ceived, on account of my husbands bad
condition, permission to stay until he
would get better.
Going back was an impossibility,
the situation being still very grave;
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 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Germans left unpublished; then by the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 epur estate had suffered,
but our magnificent castle with all its
dependencies had been respected. Now
all have pillaged It.. The Films being
more civilized stole the most beautiful
things-paintings, bronzes, antiques,
! etc. Finally the 80 masters rooms and
the IL servants rooms were plnndered.
| What they could not take away they
smashed or burned. We lost every
thing. Not q sheet, not plate or q
glass exist, and when our intendant
complained to the minister of state Ia
Thesthe). he answered him that nat
urally in war time everybody wanted
to have some souvenirs. The whites
pillaged, as hear, 80 estates. and they
were supposed to be our defenders!
Friends here obtained for us 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 50 people ;
we have lost friends, acduaintances
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,
aftei having opened her stomach,
snatched ont her intestines while alive.
They killed priests, doctors, mobiles,
merchants, women, children and peas
ants. They made several persons dig
their own graves, forcing them to I'M
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.
|
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 unfortunntes
until they were lifeless.
twelve persons were so crushed
and disHgured thnt they could not be
recognized. And oil that is truel
"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 / shall not try to describe
the horrors Of other places, for 1t ha,
been the same everywhere.
"At D., hundreds have beer
thrown under the Ice of the river, ye
la clement death compared with tn,
others.
thousands die from hunger in al
Russia; bolshevism reigns everywhere
We had hoped to be delivered by IN,
Germans. and they having failed W,
hoped for the allies; now. MS nm ON
Ger who has escaped from Petrogras
was telling. we do not hope any longer
we diei
II Russia IL anxiously awaiting tn
Ihelp Of the allies. for she alone csnno