Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-11
Tales Of Prisoners
 Released By Russia
Capt. Emmett Fitzpatrick One of the Worst Sufferers Only Two Baths in a Year.

Reval. Aug. 10 (By the A. P.)-The six Americans released from Moscow prisons who arrived here this morning passed a happy day, shopping and cut fitting themselves after shedding their prison clothes and undergoing the clean sing necessary to comply with the health regulations.
 The men who have received their free dom are Captain Emmett Fitzpatrick, of uhiontown, Alabama; William Flick. H. J. La Marc and Dr. w. B. Estes of New York; x. B. Kalmatiano of Racine, Wis consin and Russell Pattinger f San Fran cisco. All decided to remain in Reval for several days before going to Riga. and sent, cablegroms to relatives in the United States asking for replies in care of the Red Cross at Reyal.
 Relieved of their shaggy boards, fur caps and bedgaggled Russian uniforms, the Americans assumed a different ap- pearance they were all greatly reduced in flesh and ravenously hungry and were unable to pass food shop without stop 1 ping in apparent arnazement i The Russian Bolsheviki sent the Amer l jeans by special car from Moscow to Mar l va where the barbed wire gates divid- | ing the Soviet republic from Esthonia swung open and permitted the car to be transferred to Esthonian territory. When the disheyelled and ragged Americana 1 looked from the car windows and saw the haif-starved Bolshevi1i guarding the east side of the line. while weli-fed ant well-uniformed Esthonians controlled the west side, they chaffed the BoIshevik telling t1ern that that is what communism
 does for people.
 By courtesy of the Esthonian govern ment, the Americans were not stopped l 1of ffo~ hut hr0t1 tn. Rexya
 for cleansing by the American Red Cros.
 whict will care for them until they art rested and ready to travel home.
 | The Americans are unanimous in theil belief that no group Is developing strength likely 10 upset the Bolshevik government, but think that famine, ma! achieve it's overthrow because the mass es belittle the government for the reasoi that it has abandoned the first prin ciples of communism and has failed t,
 execute it's decress.
 In the opinion of the former prisoner
 famine conditions are exaggerated. The. say 1t is impossible to differentiate be tween famine and the misery which i
 rampant throughout the whole of Russia I They were enthusiastic over American
 relief and advocate the sending of al
 foreigners possible into Russia so as t
 advertise to the world the actual con
 ditionA
 .xenophon B. Kalmatiano, who was i prison for about three years was the mos , 1 composed and best dressed in the grouI
 resembling the conventional America . tourist In his new rainent, he shove T little effects of his imprisonment, althoug under sentence of death for more than
 year. Owing to his knowledge of tn
 Russian language he was able to ingrs I tiate himself with the prison. officials an J render great assistance to the other pris oners, who are loud in his praise as thei , csief comforter.
 Captain Fitzpatrick and Mir Estes ar
 peared to be the worst sufferers frol
 their hardships and are in a highly nel vous state. Fitzpatrick said he had onl two baths in year. He intends to pro ceed to nome European cure for lon ! rest.