The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-08-01

hundred and ffty marks; kilo.
gramme of sugar one hundred marks
etc. Also Finland tried to get rid OF
so many people she had to feed and,
as the bolsheviki who come up to %
kilometers from R had been re-
pulsed by the Finn troops, which had
mt the last moment come in aid to 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; a
second expedition was no longer pos
sible for the strength ~ my poor hus-
band; moreover, we had nothing left.
Our large city house was taken and
turned into hospital by Russian
volontaire corps. Nj 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Germans left unpublished; then by the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
lighting the reds, German properties
being left unmolested.
Family Lost Everything.
; Last year our estate had suffered.
but our magnificent castle with all it's
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 plundered.
What they could not take away they
! smashed or burned. We lost every
J. thing. Not sheet, not plate or y
+ glass exist, and when on, iptendant
e complained to the minister Of state Ia
/ Thesthe), he answered him that nat
o urolly in war time everybody wanted
0 to have some souvenirs. The whites
5. pillaged, as hear, 80 estates, and they
It were supposed to be our defenders!
5. "Friends here obtained for us the
permission to come to K, where we
e found two rooms in family. We
IL hope soon to find some occupation, and
e sell some furs that | could take with
Is me, for unfortunately my beautiful
laces are also in Petrograd.
d ~ do not know whether you have an
" idea of what the bolsheviki have done
1t everywhere whenever they had to re-
1t tire. At W they killed 80 people !;
I'd we have lost friends, acquaintance
@, and our excellent and noble doctor AL
Sc most all We're tortured before being put
or to death. Before shooting Doctor l.
they broke his two legs. To the old
in Baroness H., seventy-two years old.
Va after having opened her stomach,
on snatched out her intestines while alive
q They killed priests, doctors, mobiles
merchants, women, children and peas
~ ants. They made several persons die
~ their own graves, forcing them to UNI
&c. dress a carriage was waiting to take
to away their clothes. Then they tor
tured every one, breaking arms ant
- legs, crushing the limbs, snatching the
intestines, gouging out the eyes, scar
ring the cheeks. and they even burne,
two persons alive.
q There were three large pits the,
~
81 living and the dead, and then thes
81 monsters jumped into the pit an,
$# trampled under foot the unfortuna tie
III until they were ifeless.
Ri "Twelve persons We're so cruShe
EA and disfgured that they could not b
81 recognized. And all that is true,
81 "After the corpses had been ey
a humed the doctors and the officers c
81 tht stste Cook photographs of each, a
n ter having examined everyone of then
81 Russia Awaiting the Allies
81 AT D., at W, etc, wheneye
the Reds We're repulsed--note. I pra
you. that say 'everywhere'-the sam
tortures were inflicted to the unfort'
nate ones. shall not try to descrit
the horrors Of other places, for it HI
81 been the same everywhere.
AT D hundreds have bee
thrown under the ice of the river, "
clement death compared with II
others.
thousands die from hunger in a
Russia bolshevism reigns everywher
We had hoped to be delivered by Il
III Germans, and they having failed v
hoped for the allies; now. as an of
Ger who has escaped from Petrogrs
was telling, we do not hope any longe
we die
ard Russia is anxiously awaiting Il
- . help Of the allies, for she alone cam