The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-15

to see him in my dreams, to have
him in my thoughts every waking
hour
II had just been through some of
the most violent fighting we had.
ever done. / was just thanking
God for letting me live merely be.
cause ] hoped to see father again.
When heard OF father being
dead, / was stricken with an I'M
utterable sadness. wondered why
God let me live through such
terrific battle only to let me hear
that my father had died"
In another letter. Conrad wrote,
his father was murdered in 1917 as
one of the first victims OF the first
blows struck in the revolution
Then he again writes Of some Of his
own experiences.
After my recovery from wounds
received from the Germans, re-
joined the regiment in October.
1917. / received a high decoration
staff.
Loved by Soldiers.
During the revolution and the
kerensky upheaval, I noticed how
fond the soldiers were of me. Many
OF them loved me.
II was always formal toward
them. but in spite OF the soldiers
friendly attitude toward me, the
revolution touched my soul to the
core. l felt the army was going to
its ruin. and / know that with the
ruin of the old army the entire old
order of the Russian Empire would
go to pieces. 1t seems to me that
in those days felt for the first
time how deeply I loved Russia.
Soldiers appointed me to a high
post, but the idea of being chosen
by them irked me. / became ill of
the rabble and fled to Jassy, Ru-
mania, where I began a series of
new hardships, endless wanderings
and torture.
''In order to keep from serving in
the army, which represented treason
to Russia, I simulated illness and
lay in a hospital at EliZabethgrad
until one day ] was discovered.
then had Is kopecks in my pocket,
but I fled to Ukrainia and took a
job as tutor of a land owners fam
lily. Then. the Germans occupied
Ukrainia and I served as an inter-
prefer of German at IS roubles a
day.
ION the sixth day of May, 1916.
an officer representing general in
korniloff's army arrived and re-
ported -Bolshevist movements
everywhere. The news surg d
through me like an electric current.
at once formed a detachment of
seventy-two loyal Russians. At last
felt that the day of my father
lands liberation had come.
"In July we joined Denikin s
army, then numbering only 1900.
We were determined to destroy Boil
shevism at its roots. We had an
army of 5000 within month. This
was the Kuban army.
Defeated by Reds.
1.-The Don army also grew like a
mushroom. BY the end of August
we'd conquered half the Kuhan ter
ritory and then had an army of
40, 900 In hot, bloody battles we
captured thousands of reds. Already
we visualized the complete destruc-
ton of the red army. ours was
then 100, 900 strong.
1--WE advanced toward Moscow.
We won many victories. But oh,
what a terrible fiasco followed!
"In those days I worked like a
Trojan as a staff officer and strate-
gist. Then came the terrible re-
treat forced on us because we had
no reserves.
cat the end of March. 1920. the
remnants of our army sailed for
the Crimea. There 1 lay in hos
pitaI for four months, lowering be-
tween life and death, from typhoid
pneumonia and malaria. / was like
a living skeleton.
When / was dismissed from the