The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-05
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was a regular prince 49,. ,,.
"For two months I was the only
American there, then the rest Ok
these boys and the " workers oriI,ed
| in. I nearly died of lonesomeness oe-
fore they arrived. ,h,r
/ "All these boys suffered WORSE .i,'l
| hell in marching to the raiiroao, We
cause they were captured 'aeeis
when it was colder. Hous.oh was
captured on November 80. he oioh
get to the railroad until Ne" 1earS
and was all in -, s
How did they feed you queried
Then big Schuelte oeho"eo
"kasha'. :.
All laughed and sang song in
queer Russo English. about piach
bread. kasha and fish soup wnich
makes your belly stick lheh
Albers resumed his tale:
1--WE were all in bed when the hrst
meal was served-soup. Goa Knows
what's in professionally soiheooay
would make a mistake ana leave d W.
of meat in it, but it was mostly dfied
, peas and punk fish. I'll never eat
another fish as long as | i've.
HORSE SOUP
'tThe last two months they began
putting horse in the soup. Know
because / found a horse shoe naii IN
mine We got a pound or piack
bread daily You had to soak 1t IN
soup to bite it,
imprisonment was a joke. Eacn
day we got IA passport permitting US
to go anywhere we liked in MOSCOW
but we had TO return by J.. M
The Boishies treated us fine. We
never got a rough word because We
were Americans-in fact the reds
tried their best TO make us eomfor-
table. We had as much as any
body to cat and they paid us 20
ruhles when we worked.
"Often We would go to the house
of wealthy people to carry out fur
niturc which the government had
contiscatel.
Ground Blasted for Graves.
"Once we dug graves for people
! that had starved to death. We
blasted the ground four feet down.
1t was a nasty job. Rows of starved
men. women and children were laid
out on the ground They we're frozen
on top of being starved. waiting for
graves.
Sunday is scream in Bolshy-
land Every sunday all the
prisoners would be taken to church
really some officials house. where
they lectured us Oh Bolshevism. We
would sleep during these lectures but
afterwards we'd get "a big feed. That
feed We understood, ali right, all
right.
''On Christmas there WAS big
pow-wow in Pctrograd, They said
! they'd take us along If we promised
TO tell the convention ho@ we loved
Bolshevisin. Great stuff, There We
were week, visiting in the Winter
Bslace~ eating horse. sstaak.. which IL
a delicacy. Everybody had q big
time
sure We addressed tho convew-
tion--we all gave 'em q great line OF
bunk. putting the 'buH in "hullshe-
visln' as it were. so say. old topper.
fes.wc- tnfdE EN- how we loved The
! Bolshevists.
ike Spiegelmann, New York
Jew. translated our speeches as we
went along. Fetrograd is not as bad
as people here believe though
hundreds are starving, They don'r
get as much food there as they do In
Moscow. In fact. Petrograd is almost
without food
The thing that IS feared most in
| Russia, especially in the big cities. Is
a massacre of Jews Many of the
| latter hold important Offices"
/ In answer to questions the refugees
were unanimous in declaring there
was no hostility against America II,
| Russia, but the Russians were de-
termined TO drive out all allies and
govern themselves in their own way
| The threatened counter revolution
they say, il ii comes viii he mainly
I against Jews, not against the Boil
| shevists. The Rolshevists. according
TO the returned prisoners have moved
much heavy artillery 10 the northern
| front during the winter and are con
| fdent of driving the allies into the
I sea
! The release of the prisoners was
due to the efforts in Moscow of Louis
Pennngroth. a "Y" secretary who
accompanied them as far as Stock
holm.
II two souls find they have but A