The Benson signal., 1919-10-11

a hundred and fifty marks; a 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
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 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 impOssibtlity,
the situation being still very grave; a
second expedition was no longer pos
sible for the strength Of my poor hus-
band; moreover, we had nothing left.
Our large city house was taken and
turned into a hospital by a Russian
volOntaire corps. M devastated
and plundered First by the bolshe-
Wiki, then by the Esths, whom the
Germans left unpunished; then by the
white troops and the Films, who were
fighting 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 SO masters rooms and
the II servants rooms were plundered.
What they could not take away they
smashed or burned. We lost every
| thing Not a sheet, not a plate or
glass exist, and when our intendant
complained to the minister of state "a
Thesthe), he answered him that nat
urally in war time everybody wanted
to have some souvenirs. The whites
pillaged, as hear, 80 estates, and they
were supposed to be our defenders!
Friends here obtained for us the
permission to come to K where we
found two rooms in a family. We
hope soon to find some occupation, and
sell some furs that I could take with
me, 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 80 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 L
they broke his two legs. To the old
Baroness H., seventy-twO years old,
after having opened her stomach,
snatched out her intestines while alive
They killed priests, doctors, mobiles,
merchants, women, children and peas
ants. They made several persons dig
their own graves, forcing them to un-
dress; a carriage was waiting to take
away their clothes. Then they tor
tured every one, breaking arms and
intestines, gouging out the eyes, scar
ring the cheeks, and they even burned
two persons alive.
'"There were three large pits; they
tossed pell nell in one of them the
living and the dead, and then these
monsters jumped into the pit and
trampled under foot the unfortunates
until they were lifeless.
"Twelve persons were so crushed
and disfgured that they could not be
recognized. And all that is true!
"After the corpses had been ex-
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 l pray
you, that say 'everywhere'-th same
nate ones. 1 shall not try to describe
the horrors of other places, for it has
been the same everywhere.
cat D., hundreds have been
thrown under the ice of the river, yet
clement death compared with the
others.
thousands die from hunger in all
Russia bolshevism reigns everywhere
We had hoped to be delivered by the
Germans, and they having failed we
hoped for the allies; now, as an off.
Ger who has escaped from PetrOgrad
was telling, we d. not hope any longer.
we die!
Russia is anXiously awaiting the
help of the allies, for she alone cannot
conquer the terrorizing bolsheviki."