The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-07
ALL RUSSIA CRIES FOR FOOD, STATES
 ALABAMA SOLDIER
Bill Haywood Starving In Soviet Cell, Says KiIpat- rick, Who Arrives
 In Paris
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau The Herald
 BOO AaYidsnn HuiIdinr

Washington, September 6.-(Spe- cial.)-Capt. Emnet kilpatrick, Ala bama soldier, long confined in a Mos COW dungeon, has reached Paris He will sail to the United States in two weeks, and go direct to Mobile and Uniontown. Thence he will visit New Mexico in search of health
 In an interview cabled today to New York and Washington newspa- pers, Captain Fitzpatrick gives a graphic account of his terrible ex- periences. In part, the dispatch is herewith reproduced:
 Captain Fitzpatrick, of slight stat urs, ruddy face and slow speaking, wore a makeshift blue suit he had been given at RevaI in exchange for the pajama trousers and an old over coat that had been his entire ward robe while in Russia. He was weak from scurvy, fever and lung trouble contracted in the underground death cell. with rats and the overflow from . sewer running about his feet. He said:
 My first impression Is that of vast hunger in Russia. not of a fam fly here and there, but of a cry for food everywhere, except from the 6o0,000 soviet adherents about Mos on all the width and breadth of Russia.
 After that came regret for the 150,o00 prisoners who fill the terrible soviet Jails, mostly Hungarians and Poles. There is not anyone in Mos cow who has not been in prison for at least two weeks.
 All spy on each other, and the prison guards are in turn watched by other sets of guards. I was in prison with four Tchicherin's secre- taries and Santcri Nourteva, who vas deported from New York. Nuor- teva was in charge of entente and Scandinavian affairs at Moscow. He interrogated me- and told me he had the dope on me: that was the United States military attache with General Wrangers army. He said, You will be treated like an ordinary spy,'y and then threw me in jail He told me obscene stories about the United States, and was vulgar in his speech.
 
 jail like so many of his felloW com munists.
 .I was two cells from Big < Dill Haywood, who came as a friend of Rus.ja r-fe landed in
 prison. Haywood Kept calling
 over and over, am hungry, can't I get out of here.'
 "Then l was moved to another pri- son where I was told I was sentenced ff Q q "a my case was to be reprisal for the the American treatment of Jim Lar kin, the agitator. But I did not fear hard labor. No one works hard in Russia. 1 was put to saving wood, with a young girl prisoner at the other end of a big saw, but we did not saw much
 death cell below ground. I can not describe the filth. I asked for books, and in the dim light read Trotskys' Terrorism and Communism" which advocates the plain destruc- tion of everything as the soviets ultimate goal. There I contracted fever and was removed to a prison hospital, placed on bed that was unclean and was surrounded by tuberculosis and chorera patients.
 An official came to me there and said," The soviets are going to free the prisoners a4d I was so grateful I felt more kindly toward them. I could hardly walk. I traded them q pair of blood red trousers for a pair of pajama trousers and took an old overcoat offered by the Czechc- Slovakian Red Cross and it was not until I landed in Petrograd that learned it was Americas demand that had released the Americans.
 "As to the political phases of the Russian famine, I believe the Lenine government can go on for two years or more. They do not care for the destruction of the people. but they realize they cannot get along with out some diplomatic and commercial connection with the outside world, and Lenine is attempting to pull poli- tical wires with the famine as an excuse. Trotzky is against this and thinks the world is ready for a revo luton. in Europe because of .he financial conditions, in the United States because of overproduction.
 s"The people can not rise because they have no organization, they hate the Soviets, but it is the Russian psychology to submit to any regime and even die off like flies because they have no initiative. The soviets put up posters that say. it is better to feed 100 well than 1000 poorly.. That is the government attitude to- ward the famine.
 ~In prison I had the singular
 experience of hearing king cry
 ing for food. It was the king of
 khiva, who had been imprisoned
 with all his court and wealth and his little Kingdom confiscnted.
 There were Generals, princes,
 educated officials of all stations
 In the Moscow Jails. General
 karolyI. . relative of the Aus
 trian Count karoIyi gave me
 cignrette case. He is not ccr-
 thin he will ever come out
 aiive.',
 Captain Fitzpatrick said that the stories of cruelty, disease. filth and vice among Russian children were true, but were too narrowing and unpleasant to talk about. He said T feel ashamed to recall some of the things. I was struck in the face an i'll treated, but after all it is the famine that overshadows everything. A1c tp in