The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-06-18
BY WELLINGTON HuLBcUND.
Copyright, 1919, by The International
News Bureau. Inc.l

News Bureau, rno.)
LONDON. Juno Ill am a Russian
naval officer compelled TO serve the
Reds. or l should starvc. Thank
Heaven the, British have released ME
from my servitude."
The speaker was O little Russian clad
in the uniform of a BolshevIk seaman.
who was discovered hiding with a COM
| panfon under some tarpalins and sacks
ON a captured Bolshev!k vessel
The men explained that having been
officers in the Imperial Russian Navy
when the Bolshevik upheaval came they
were compelled to serve as scamen For
| Q while their story was believed, and
the British officers were inclined to
4 sympathize with the two interesting
prisoners
Shall we be sent to England?' asked
| the younger Of the two 1T IS quite
probable" came the reply. and the Rus
sian expressed his satisfaction with the
prospects
| Your Turn Has Come
II IS perhaps unfortunate for these
their fellow prisoners into a Baltic
port They were being marched through
| the streets Of the port when an Esthon-
ian officer saw them The Esthonian
started, gave grunt Of satisfaction,
and then marched up 10 the two Rus
slams, who had been kept apart from
tho other prisoners
well, Sub-Lieutenant Raskolnikoff,
50 your turn has come he explained,
| your career IS ended" and the Esthon-
ian laughed The prisoner went deadly
pale, but marched on with his guards,
\ tho Esthontan officer following
MI vi tCh Il
quarters was reached, demanded TO be
granted an interview with the officer
in command TT Is important" he said
excitedly IT know who the Russian
| prisoners are, know their history" And
| to the British officer the Esthronian re-
| lated an extraordinary story Ho went
| back TO the days whcr the kcrensky
! government In Russia was overthrown.
| to the day when sailors from the Baltic
fleet made the streets of Petrograd run
with blood
Leader Of MnrdererB
Those sailors" said the Esthonian.
were led by Sub-Lieutenant Raskolni-
korf / saw him lead them I know him
| we'll He is a Bolshevik, and holds
high office under the Bolsheviks'
The Esthonian's statements were
/ hardly credited Prompt inquiries were
set afoot, with the result that before
many hours had passed the identity or
| the TWO Russians was established The
| younger Of tho two men when chal-
| lcnged partly admitted that he was Sub
\ Lieutenant Raskolnikofc That was my
| title in the old days" he said proudly.
| now I am Admiral Raskollnikoff. First
Sea Lord of tho Russian Admiralty
The two men wcrc kept apart from
tho other captives and brought TO Lon
hoy lion
| lock and key in BriIton Prison
gcotsnan nl-treated
In the opinion Of tho authorities. Ras-
koIslloff is a highly dangerous man. one
who imagtnes nc 10 perfectly Justified
| in putting to death anyone who happens
to be antt-Bolshev!st
ct happen to know that his ideals con-
! corning Bolshevism have undergone
very considerable change during his
| stay In this country, and he has now
| como back to Russia with a very differ
| cnt conception. OF tho British author!-
| ties and thoir methods
| Tho capture OF tho Bolshcvik First
Sea Lord and his secretary was a for
tunato thing for q number OF BrItishers
who were being brutally ill-trcatcd by
| the Leniniste in Russia During the
| onrra dons tn tho White Sea and IN tho
| Baltic the BolshevikS captured some
two dozen British subjects. tho majority
OF them sailors IN tho Royal Navy
There was ono young Officer. Lieut.
| NacBride, Of tho Royal Naval Reserve
a Scotsman, who had been marked out
for especially brutal trcntm"nt n" whs
taken prisoner many months ago. and
| for a long time had been confined In Il
dungeon in tho 81. Potter and ST. Paul
Prison, where he had been starved ma
subjected TO the most degrading forms
Of punishment by tn" RoshnVlks.
| Offers OF Exchange,
| Immediately negotiations Wero open
| cd 20 the l.en.nl,es fer the exchange Of
prisoners, and we Offered to hand oyr'
| their First Rru Lord and MS companion
| # they would ia return hand over Lieut..
| MacBrida and the "a other unhappy
| Rrit!shers, There was considerable
"haggl!ng." and in the end the Bolshe.
viks fatty refused to part with single
| captive.
|. Then 1t came 10 the knowledge OF the