Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-03-30

impossible to give any away without
giving to everyone, so We did not
give any Of it away. Tomorrow we
are going out about thirty miles to
meet the first relief ship coming in.
Expect the whole town down to the
docks to see as bring II in. The first
ship, the American steamer Winnie
bago. has ali corn cargo. She ia a
5000 ton ship. Wednesday, the u.
8. s. Sands is coming up with mail
and will relieve us. We will leave
here Thursday for Batown and
Trebiyond and SamsOwn and expect
to be in Constantinople about the
10Th.
On Way Again
At sea, Feb. 8. 1922, enroute e.om
Novorossisk, Russia, to BatOwn, Geor-
gia. The u. S. S. Sands arrived in
NHyorossisk at 300 D. m today and
after relieving US, we sailed at 400
p. m, glad 20 be on our way. Re-
ceived lot of mail today. Eight bags
in all for the ship. My share was Ia
letters besides a lot of Official mail
Five letters were from home.
Odessa, Russia. Feb. &c. Since my
last letter we have been busy, all
the time.
We arrived in the Bosphorus on
the 14th and oiled that night, then
steamed down to Constantinople on
the 18Th. We loaded with stores and
provisions and left again the 21st,
sailing for SevastOpOl, Russia. Arrived
the 22nd and made arrangements with
the Bolsheviks for the entry of relief.
Gram ships to enter the port of
Odessa
See Scene Of Battle
While i'm SevastopOl we had a
chance to go ashore, and all went up
to the site Of the last battle of the
Crimean war Of 1855 and saw the fam
Gus painting OF the battle of SevastO.
pol. II is the most wonderful paint
ing in the world. Il Is a panoramic
view of Sevastopol showing the
French and English, and Turks and
Italians against the Russians, in the
center. The painting itself is about
fifty feet high and forms a complete
circle about 100 feet in diameter. Be
tween the painting and center visitors
platform Is the real battle-ground, with
everything as il was at that time. and
IL is hard TO tell where this ground
ends and the painting begins. stood
there and looked at it for two hours
4 IN
| am going 60 see it again. The fig
ures seem real and life-like, and the
ships in the harbor stand out as nat
ural as life The painting of the World
war in Paris is also large panoramic
painting but cannot compare with this
one except for the fact that each
figure in the Paris picture is a por-
trait painting. 1t is not one scene as
this picture but is a collection of peo-
pie from all countries, while i'm this
painting the things shown actually
happened.
Ships Froze In Dock
We sailed for SeyastOpol yesterday
and met two American food ships and
brought them into Odessa this noon.
The inner harbor is frozen over, and
an ice-breaker had to help us in. We
are about 20 feet from the dock and
froze in solid. Will need an ice
breaker to get out. The ice is about IS
inches thick. The conditions are
terrible. The people packed the docks
all day and look very poor. Most of
them in rags. After dinner today we
tried TO give them what was left;
and sent q man out with a pan full
of potatoes and other things. The
people kno ,ked It from the mans
hand and everything spilled ON the
DOCK. The people went down on all
fOurs and scOoped it up in their hands
and TANNED il into their hungry
mouths. The Bolsheviks now, have
stopped us giving. to the people.
They keep a guard at the gangway
on the dock and will not let any one
ton or off except with a pass ard it is
impossible to get a pass for any ex-
.cept the captain. He is going to try
to get passes for the officers tomor-
row, IL he does. we are going to look
around a bit. The Bolsheviks are
very powerful and are very suspicious
of everyone. They think nothing of
a human life. The people are afraid
OF them and they take everything
away from the people. Something
will have to happen before long, be-
cause things cannot go on as they
are now"
Hundreds Die Every Week
March LIST, We are still in Odessa.
Expect to stay here about three more
weeks, Have been ashore several
times and things and conditions here
are terrible. hundreds diving every
week from starvation. We have three
American food ships in port now un.
loading. and the grain is being ship
ped to the volga district where condi
lions are worse than here. The
train loads OF corn passing out OF the