Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-05
WOUNDED YANK REVEALS
RED RUss|A's HORRORS
Corporal Prince, Captured by boil
,shcvists, Tells OF Il Months of
Terrible Suffering.
SAVED BY AN ENGLIsm JEW
AT Point of Revolver lie Forced
Soviet Authorities to Transfer
Broken American to Decent Hos
pital-Princc Awaits Transport.
my Associated I'rcSs !

NiboliG. FINLAND. August A.
After seventeen months In Soviet
Russia, where he was twice wounded
and captured by the Bolshevists on
the Archangel front on March /.
1919 Corporal Arthur Prince. OF the
Three Hundred and Thirty ninth
United states Infantry, arrived ut tho
Finnish frontier yesterday evening.
On board the train with Prince,
whose home is in Detroit. came see
French. Danish and Swedish refugees
from Russia. who are being re-
patriaied b. their respective govern
mouts.
Prince was ono OF four Americans
sent on; on this refugee train by the
Bolshcvisis authorities II Moscow.
Among the other Americans who
arrived were two correspondents
who crossed Russia from NIadivo-
n"rk CITY. refugee from Samara.
Thirty other Americans. who have
gaihGred AZ Moscow from various
awaiting In the Bolshcvist capital for
permission OF tho Soviet authorities
TO leave the country. al anxious for
the American government to take
steps 10 obtain their release.
Fourteen Months of Starvation.
In ta;tcred clothing and worn shoes
given him by Americans in Moscow
cripple from his wounds. and n
pINht'l !ps Improperly treated. con-
ralescinG from II kidney disease and
suffering from loss of weight as a
result Of fourteen months OF scant
nig, in russian hospitals, Corporal
FRINGE has entered for n two weeks
stay the. quarantine camp on the
Finnish frontier in accordance with
the regulations imposed upon all
persons leaving Russia. After his
stay in quarantine. he VIII report TO
the American consulate In lielsing-
tors for communication with the
ri Hons
where ne is to rcpor; for duty.
Seventeen months ago. while lead
Ing a patrol Through. frozen. North
angel. over "A snowshoc trail four fec;
deep In snow. eight Americans were
ambuscaded by the Bolshevis,s. Prince
was hit In the. knee and his leg was
broken ut tho hin. while another bull
lc, struck him in the side as he was
crawling toward the American line.
the corporal was captured and placed
on sleigh. which started on a ESQ
worst trip, requiring five days In zero
weather. to liotlas without knowlcdre
OF the people who had made him prls-
oner or their language.
His Intense SufrcrinES.
From kotlas, where Prince first ro-
ccived medical attention, he was rc-
moved by hospital train to kostroma.
In middle Russia, where he under
went seven months OF intense suffer
Ing and three operations nccrssitatcd
by the attempts Of the Russian sur
tendons of which had become t0u,, as
n result of improper attention on the
loHmG 1eurney from the front.
On Scptemher IS las; Prince was
as prisoner to tho Tula conccntra-
Non ctmp, compos"d OF anil Boil
aays iii M9%as Srs 1fi0r
neccssiiating his going into hos
pital again. There he remained for a
monih. when he was transferred 20
n ~ In 3.
AT Moscow, Prince says he cy-
perienccd the worst .suffertmgs of MS
entire stay in Russia. The hospliai
was heated only two hours daily in
the November weather; there wcr.
unframed nurses and only n few doe
tors in the hospital and also II short
were bad, Through the frieudship
Of an, English Jew Bolshevist solaicr.
VINO mad been wounded while fight
Ing on the Southern front. Prince
maintained by iIunEarians in Mos
COW, wher" conditions were better.
r,, EnEiis iS" = Throat Throat Wins.
,he hospita! Official and told him
ihat he had revolver and i've bul J.
lets IN II, and that he would XIII four
conveyance was obtained for HIM
self and Prince. The transpor; at!on
was secured Prince went 10 The
hospilai. from which he was released
May % and sent to commemorative,
ms from stss q! RSS!so r"ns;r. aFr oI
The Frcnch.-Rtd Cross here issut
MIN rations, which ne cooked nm
During his fourteen months i'm hos
pita!S Prince said ne lived on a daily
ration OF quarter OF pound of
cooked grain. three quarters OF n
pound o! black bread which often
was 50 FUN OF straw that he was
unahlc TO cat st. salt herring, SCUM,
imtation tea and nm ounce ana n
hait OF sugar. lie received u pound
oil tobacco monthly.
AT the International hospital in
Moscow the ration included one ounce
o. butter daily and also white bread
lie was the only patient In his ward,
which contained iiftcen. who received
butter.
after Princes release from the con
cchtration camp at Moscow the
F.. French i;ed Cross increased his ra :
ZION addipE TO ii potatoes. crgs.
months he was In Moscow awaiting
10 start home Prince Dough; his own
milk. meat ana fruit Win money
given hlm by Americans
As an idea Of the rise of rricrs in
recent months In Moscow. Prince saws
ma In May lie paid 1870 ruhles for a
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