Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-25
New York.--"We DO not hope any

New fOrK,-"We 90 not hope any
longer; we die"
The despair to which boshevik mis-
rule hns reduced Russia Is thus epitO-
mixed by II Russian nobIeWonlan wide
ly known throughout her country, in a
remarkable picture of events In her
country contained In u letter received
recently In New York. Her castles
and estates plnndercd or RACED, her
fortune vanished and her friends and
family murdered. this titled woman Is
moved to remark that three years
ago, my second daughter and her hus
band died, he having caught cold in
the trenches. Then ! was in despair;
now envy them
Il beg or You never To mention my
name; ! wrote frankly to you counting
on your discretion Is the plea which
fear of bolshevik tyranny moves the
unfortunate woman To place at the
close Of her letter to her friend Il New
York woman of prominent and inlluen-
tinl family. Excuse the incohcrcnccs;
l write with my heart bleeding, know
Ing that ! shall never be able To give
you The faintest idea of the suiIerings
that thousands are enduring"
A graphic tale Of the misery that
spreads itself over Russia Is unfolhed
In the letter. Wholesale pillaging and
murder by bolshcviki, Germans, Films
and others swept the land clear of its
wealth.
Both the nohlcwoman who wrote the
letter and the woman who received 1t
are we'll known. The danger involved
fer the former makes it advisable that
not only the names Of the persons but
the names of the localities mentioned
be withheld from publication. The let
ter In full reads as follows
MY very, very dear Mrs. B:
''At last | am able to write TO you
and to hope to hear from YOU.
Il will endeavor to tell you briefly
the personal events of these terrible
last years. But how To begin? How
to give You the funniest idea of the
unimaginablc atrocities committed by
the bolsheviki? Speaking OF our
selves, + will tell you that we have
lost everything. The hosheviki have
stolen all our fortune, boxes of silver
ware, precious objects, personal re-
membranes which undoubtedly are
now destroyed.
Freed to Flee From Home.
''Three years ago my second daugh-
ter and her husband died, he having
caught cold in the trenches, Then |
was In despair, now envy them. The
year 1917 In autumn, we had to flee
from Nj, and come to the city,
where we lived under the reds regime
until the arrival of the Germans.
You have probably read in the PAT
pers that the reds had sent to Siberia
800 Russian bnrons and also some
bOureeoisie; some died and the others
returned two months after
although under our roof lived n
military guard of bolShcyiki or reds.
good luck kept US from sharing their
lot. l cannot describe the last days.
After the arrival of the Germans IA
persons. in which we We're who were
to be shot the very next day.
The reign of the Germans lasted
exactly seven months; they annihi.
lated all our hopes, they accumulated
taxes upon taxes; carrying away all
the food to Germany. leaving the peo-
pie OF our cities 10 starve.
NO discipline. corruption every
where, no administration, only those
who deliberately closed their eyes to
evidence failed to see that "A country
thus plundercd and so badly treated
was not to remain long under their
rule. But, alas How many were
blind!
Then came the great catastrophe
the German troops fraterni2ing with
the bOlsheviki ut W; surrcndering
to them cannon, war ammunition, and
refusing to fight. The Germans even
damaged the cannon they left to th,
,Esthes troops. which had been formed
hastily and were incapable of defend
ing themselves having nothing, abso
lutely nothing
Reds Rule Was Worse.
"Thcn, for another year the country
was ut the mercy of the reds, and il
was worse than the first time.
"The Bolsheviki had with them Chi
nesc AMI Red Lettcs, who were ter
ribly cruel, and those formed the
guard Of the unfortunate emperor and
his family.
ION the 2Sth of November We
learned that W had fallen; that
the Germans We're leaving us in haste