The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-05
WHY IT'S POOR
By Associated Press

Viborg, Finland, August 1-Aftsr seventeen months in soviet Russia, where he was twice wounded and cap- tured by the bo1sheviki on the Arch angel front on March 1, 1919, Corporal States infantry arrived at the Finnish frontier yesterday evening.
 On board the train with Prince, whose home is in Detroit came 300 French, Danish and Swedish refugees from Russia, who are being repatri- Prince was one of four Americans sent out on this refugee train by the bolshevik authorities at Moscow. Among the other Americans who ar | rived were two correspondents who crossed Russia from vladivostok and
 Mrs. Emily Sarman of New York City, a refugee from Samara Thirty other Americans who have gathered at Mos COW from various points in Russia and Siberia are waiting in the bolshevik capital for permission of the soviet authorities to leave the country, all anxious for the American government | to take steps to obtain their release. | In tattered clothing and worn shoes | given him by Americans in Moscow, a ! cripple from his wounds and a broken ' leg improperly treated, convalescing l from a kidney disease and suffering | from loss of weight as a result of 1 fourteen months of scant diet in Rus sian hospitals, Corporal Prince has en- | tered for a two weeks stay the quar- antine camp on the Finnish frontier in accordance with the regulations imposed upon all persons leaving Russia
 | After his stay in quarantine he will l report to the American consulate in I Heisingfors for communication with the American army authorities as to where he is to report for duty 1 Seventeen months ago, while leading
 a patrol through frozen north Russia | 250 versts southeast of Archangel, over a shoe trail four feet deep in snow. eight Americans were ambuscaded by l the bolsheviki. Prince was hit in the 1 knee and his leg was broken at the | hip, while another bullet struck him in the side as he was crawling toward the American line. The corporal was l captured and placed on a sleigh, which started on a 250-verst trip, requiring five days in zero weather to Kotlas without knowledge of the people who had made him prisoner or their lam guage.
 No Americans knew of his presence ii Russia until more than a year later l when Prince recovered sufficiently tt go to the bolshevik foreign office anc
 ask how to get home.
 When the Americans in Moscow learned of his presence, they cared fo him until permission was received fo him to take the refugee train to the bor der.
 From Kotlas, where Prince first re ceived medical attention, he was re moved by hospital train to Kostroma. i, middle Russia. where he underwear
 seven months of intense suffering ant
 three operations necessitated by the at
 ten1pts of the Russian surgeons to Urea his broken leg the tendons of which ha,
 become taut as a result of improper at
 tention on the long Journey from tn
 front.
 On September 2s last. Prince was dis
 charged from a hospital and sent as
 prisoner to the Tula concentration camr composed of anti-bolshevik prisoners
 Here, after ten days, his wounds supu srated afresh, necesstating his going int a hospital again. There he remained fo a month, when he was transferred | } Moscow, 12O miles to the north.
 At Moscow, Prince says he experience
 the worst sufferings of his entire sta l in Russia. The hospital was heated onl two hours daily in the November weath
 | CT; there were untrained nurses and oni | a few doctors in the hospital and als : a shortage of medicine. The food cond tions were bad. Through the friendshi . 1 of an English Jew bolshevik soldier. wh had been wounded while fighting on tn . southern front, Prince learned of a ,, 1 international hospital maintained b . Hunearians in Moscow. where condition | were reported to be better,
 Permission was obtained for his trans
 lfer to this hospital but in three week
 lthe hospital authorities had not bee
 Iab1e to furnish transportation for hir t4 aa.ss. ,ts q stA