The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-07-31

| q AuHu1eu anu lily marks; KllO-
gramme of sugar one hundred marks,
etc. Also Finland tried to get rid Of
so may people she had to feed, and,
as the bOlsheViki who come up to %
k1lOmeters 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 impossibility,
the situation being still very grave; a
second expedition was no longer pos
slDle for the strength of my poor hus-
Dand; moreover, we had nothing left.
Our large city house was taken and
turned into hospital by a 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Germans left unpublished; then by the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
fighting the reds, German properties
Delng le1t 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 pi1laged it. The Films being
more civilized stole the most beautiful
bronzes, antiques,
etc. Finally the SO masters rooms and
the II servants rooms were pIundered.
What they could not take away they
smashed or burned. We lost every
thing. Not sheet, not a plate or a |
glass exist, and when our intendant |
to the minister Of state Ga |
TheSthe1, he answered him that nat |
urally in war time everybody wanted |
to have some souvenirs. The whites
pillaged, as hear, so estates, and they
were supposed to be our defenders!
'F'riertls 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
ne, for unfortunately my beautiful
aces are also in PetrOgrad.
II do not know whether you have an
idea of what the bOlsheviki have. done
whenever they had TO- re-
ire. AT W they killed 80 people:
We have lost friends, acquaintances
and our excellent and noble doctor. AL
most all were tortured before being put
% death. Before shooting Doctor LIZ
hey broke his two legs. To the" old
Baroness H., seventy-two years Old,
tftel having opened her stomach.
out her intestfnes while alive.
They killed priests, doctors. mobiles.
merchants, women, children and peas
tnts. They made several persons dig
heir own graves, forcing them to, un-
tFess; carriage was waiting to take
Eway their clothes. Then they tor
ured every one, breaking arms and
egS, crushing the limbs, snatchine the
ntestines, gouging out the eyes, scar
ing the cheeks. and they even burned
wO persons alive.
There were three large pits, they
ossed pell meFF in one Of them the
wing and the dead. and then these ,
nonsters jumped into the pit and I
rampled under foot the unforturates
ntil they were ffeless.
''Twelve persons were so crushed
nd disfigured that they could not be
ecognized. And all that is trrret
"After the corpses had been ex-
umed the doctors and the officers of
he state took photographs of each, af-
Ell having examined everyone of them.
Russia Awaiting the Allies .
AT D., at W., ETC., whenever
he Reds were repulsed-note. I Drav- .
GU, that say 'everywhere'-the same .
Ortures were inflicted to the unfortu- :
ate ones. I shall not try to describe :
he horrors Of other places, for it has ;;
cen the same everywhere.
Eat D., hundreds have been
brown under the ice of the river vet
clement death compared with the '
theirs.
thousands die from hunger in all
'ussia; bolshevism reigns everywhere
We had hoped to be delivered bv the
Iermans, and they having failed wa q
oped for the allies; now, as an Off
er who has escaped from Petrograd z
as telling. we do not hope any longer
'e die!
Russia is anxiously awaiting the {
clip of the allies, for she alone cannot :