Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-05
ANE R|CANS ARE
ANXIOUS To GET
OUT Of RUSSIA
Thirty Two Gathered at Mos
cow Awaiting Their Re-
lease; Corporal Suffers
Terribly at Hands of Reds
tsr MORNING JoussAL srsc,A, LEASED WIRE,

tsf MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wlEsI
Niborg, Finland Aug. AFTER
seventeen months in soviet Russia,
where he was twice wounded and
captured by the bolsheviki on the
Archangel front March /, 1917,
Corporal Arthur Prince of the
339th United States Infantry, ar
rived at the Finnish frontier yes
terday. On the train with Prince,
whose home is in Detroit, came 800
French, Danish and swedish ref
ugees from Russia who are being
repatriated.
Prince was one of four Amer-
cans sent out on this train by the
Moscow authorities. Among them
We're two correspondents, who
crossed Russia from Vladvistolt,
and Mrs. Emiline Sarmen of New
York, a refugee from Samora
Thirty other Americans wro have
gathered at Moscow ar aiting
permission of the soviet ! thori-
ties to leave, all anxious Tor 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 woun Is
and a broken leg improperly treat
ed, Commissioning from loss of
weight as a result of IA months of
scant diet in Russian hospitals,
Prince has entered for two weeks
stay at the quarantine camp on the
Finnish border. After that he viii
~ A at n
in Helsingfors for communication
with American army authorities as
to where he is to report for duty.
Seventeen months ago while ira
versing frozen north Russia, ESQ
versts southeast of Archangel, over
snow shoe trail four feet deep in
snow, Prince and his patrol of
seven Americans We're ambuscaded
by the bolsheviki. Prince was hit
in the 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.
He was captured and placed on a
sleigh, which started on 25O
versts trip, requiring five days in
zero weather to Kotlas. No Amer
lean knew of his presence in Rus
STA until more than year later,
when Prince recovered sufficiently
to 60 to the bolsheviki foreign Of
flee to ask how to get home.
When Americans in Moscow learn
ed of his presence they cared loI
him until permission was received
for him to start to the BORDER
From Kotlas Prince was removed
by hospital train to kostroma, IN
middle Russia, where he underwent
seven months of intense suffering
and three operations necessitated
by the attempts of the RUSSIAN
surgeons to treat his broken leg.
the tendons of which mad become
taut as result of improper atten-
ton.
On September % Prince was
from the hospital ana
sent as a prisoner to the Hula
camp. composed OF
anti bolshevik prisoners Here al
ter ten days his wounds SUP
afresn, reSessitating ms
again going into a hospital. Thefe
he remained Il month, when nc
was transferred to Moscow, l5o
miles north.
At Moscow Prince says he ex-
the worst sufferings OF
his stay in Russia. The hospitai
was heated only two hours daily,
there were unframed nurses AMI
only few doctors, and also
shortage of medicines. Food con-
ditions were bad. Through the
friendship Of an English Jew boil
shevik soldier who had been
Prince learned of an
hospital maintained
by Hungarians, where conditions
were reported better.
Permission was obtained for his
but in three weeks hos
pital authorities had not been able
to furnish transportation for him
across Moscow. Z Finally the Eng
iishman, whose wounds did not
prevent him from walking, went
to the hospital officials and told
them he had a revolver and five
bullets in it and that he would
kill four Russians and then him
self unless conveyance was OBJ
tanned for himself and Prince.
transportation was then. arranged,
and Prince went to the interna-
tional hospital, from which he
was released May %. Then he
was taken to home formerly
by the British in Mos
COW and under the better treat
ment and food he improved SO
much in four months he was dis
charged and sent to a concentra-
ton camp for Austrian prisoners, |
arriving from Siberia for repatria-
ton. The French Red Cross Is
sued him rations, which he cooked
himself.
During his fourteen months in
hospitals Prince said he lived ON a |
daily ration of a quarter of pound |
Of cooked grain, three quarters of
4 pound Of black bread. which was