Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-05


NlBORG. Finland. August AFTER
seventeen months in soviet Russia,
where he was twice wounded and
was captured by the bolsheviki on
the Archangel front on March l. 1919,
Corp. Arthur Prince of the 339th
United States Infantry arrived at the
Finnish frontier last evening.
On board the train with Prince.
whose home is in Detroit, came 300
French. Danish and wedish refugees
from Russia who are being repatri-
ated by their respective governments.
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, VINO
crossed Russia from Vladivostok,
and Mrs. Emily Sarman of New York
city, refugee from Samara.
Thirty other Americans who have
gathered at Moscow from various
points in Russia and Siberia are wait
Ing in the bolshevik capital for per-
mission of the soviet authorities to
leave the country, all anxious for the
American government to take steps
to obtain their release.
Enters Quarantine Camp.
In tattered clothing and worn shoes
given him by Americans in Moscow;
cripple from his wounds and a
broken leg improperly treated; con,
valescing from a kidney disease and
suffering from loss of weight as a
result of fourteen months of scant
diet in Russian hospitals, Corp. Prince
has entered, for a tWo-week stay, the
quarantine camp on the F1nnlsh
frontier in accordance with the regu-
iations imposed upon all persons leav-
ing Russia.
After his stay in quarantine he Will
report to the American consulate IN
Helsingfors for communication with
the American Army authorities as 10
where he is to report for duty.
Seventeen months ago, while lead
ing patrol through frozen north
Russia $50 versts southeast of Arch
angel, over a snowshoe trail tour
feet deep in snow. eight Americans
were ambuscaded by the bolsheVlkl.
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 Amer
lean line.
The corporal was captured and
placed on a sleigh which started on
250-verst trip, requiring five days
in zero weather. to kotlas. without
knowledge as to the people who had
made him prisoner, or their language.
No Americans knew of his presence
in Russia until more than a year
later, when Prince recovered suft-
GENTLY to go to the bolshevik foreign
Office and ask how to get home.
Permitted to Take Train.
When the Americans in Moscow
learned of his presence they cared for
him until permission was received for
him to take the refugee train to the
border.
From Kotlas, where Prince first re-
ceived medical attention, he was re-
moved by hospital train to Kos
troma, in middle Russia, where he
underwent seven months of intense
suffering and three operations neces-
STATED by the attempts of the RUSSIA
surgeons to treat his broken leg. the
tendons of which had become taut as
a result of improper attention on the
long journey from the front.
On September % last Prince was
discharged from hospital and sent
as a prisoner to the lula concentra-
ton camp, composed of anti-bolshe-
his wounds suppurated afresh, ne
cessitating his going into hospital
again. There he remained for
month, when he was transferred to
Moscow. 100 miles to the north.
AT Moscow Prince says he expe-
tire stay in Russia. The hospital was
heated only two hours daily in the
November weather; there were un-
trained nurses and only a few doc
tors in the hospital and also a short
age of medicine. The food conditions
were bad.
Through the friendship of an Eng
lish Jew bolshevik soldier, who had
been wounded while fighting on the
southern front. Prince learned of an
international hospital maintained by
Hungarians in Moscow, where condi-
tons were reported to be better.
Gets Transportation by Threat.
Permission was obtained for his
transfer to this hospital, but in three
weeks the hospital authorities had
not been able to furnish transporta-
ton for him across the city of Mos
cow. Finally the Englishman. whose
wounds did not prevent him from
walking. went to the hospital Off