The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-07-25

AFTER having packed In haste the
strictly necessary things. our small
caravan started at five o'clock In the
morning; 1t was dark and the roads
were frightful. |
1--WE arrived at R on the second
Of December. We were able to stay
four weeks at our home. then In great
haste we had to embark on the boat
sent to Finland for the fugitives and
We arrived at Helslngfors, Lassitude.
troubles, and emotions Of all thess
weeks overwhelmed at last my poor
husband. '>-ta
"E9rtN4stely We found two rooms IN
. hospital there We lived for two
months. being often hungry, and when
VI could get some food It was execrs
be.
yrhe high prices Of living In FL
land are unbelievable. A pound 81 tea.
which Ordinarily Cost from ave to fit!
teen kronen, cost from one hundred t6
hundred and fifty marks; q ~kiIo-
gramme Of sugar one hundred marks,
etc. Also Finland tried to get rid of
50 many people she had to feed, and,
as the bolshevikl who come up to %
kifometers from r. had been re-
pulsed by the Finn troops. which had
at the last moment come In aid to the
Let's and to the volontaire corps Of
Balthes-Germans the Films then or
dered all fugitlves to leave the country
within six days. However, we re-.
celved, on account Of my husbands bad
condition, permission to stay untn he
would get better.
"GOing back was an ~impOssibility,
the situation being still very grave; q
second expedition was no longer pos
stble for the strength OF my poor hus-
band; moreover. we had nothing left.
Our large city house was taken aud
turned into a hospital by Russian
v0lontairs. corps. NJ devastated
and plundered! First by the bolshe-
Wiki, then by the Esths, whom the
Germans left unpublished; then by tho
white troops and the Firms. who were
fighting the reds; German properties
"I'uA lCiI uulhOaColVus
Family Lost Everything
last year our estate had suffered,
but our magnificent castle with all its
dependencies had been respected. Now
all have pilIaged ii. The Films being
more civilized stole the most beautiful
things--Raintings, bronzes. antiques.
etc. Finally the 80 masters rooms and
the | servants rooms were pundered
What they could not take away they
smashed or burned. We lost every
thing. Not sheet, not a plate or Z
glass exist. and. when our intendant
complained to the minister nf state Ia
Thesthe), he answered him that nat
uralIy in war time everybody wanted
10 have some souvenirs. The whites
pillagpd, as ! hear, 30 estates. and they
were supposed to be our defenders!
"FrIends here obtained for us the
found two rooms In family. We
hope soon to find some OCCUPATION, aud
sell some furs that | could take with
ne. 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 81 people;
We have lost friends. acquaintance
and our excellent and noble doctor. AL
most all were tortured before being put
to death. Before shooting Doctor IT,
thnv krnko hn olA
Baroness H., seventy-two years old,
aftc, having opened her stomach,
snatcheu out her intestines while alive.
They killed priests. doctors. mobiles,
merchants. women. children and peas
ants. They made several persons dig
dress Il carriage was waiting to take
away their clothes. Then they tor
tur.d every one. breaking nrlns and
legs. crushing the limbs. snatching the
intcStines. gOugiug out the eyes. scar
ring the cheeks. and they even burned
two persons alive.
"'rhere were three large pits; they
tossed peII nell in one Of them the
living and the dead, and then these
monsters Jumped into the pit and
trnmpled under foot the unfortunates
until they were lifeless.
'Twelve persons were SO crushed
and disf1gured that they could not be
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. I pray
you, that say 'everywhere'-the same
tOrtures were inflicted to the unfortu-
nate ones. l shall not try to describe
the horrors Of other places. for it has
been the same everywhere.
AT D.. hundreds have been
thrown under the ice of the river. yet
a element death compared with the
others.
"lhousapds die from hunger in all
Russia : bolshevism reigns everywhere.