The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-11

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It him for me he cfavvlcd underneath. He stuck The
their bayonets under after him. This pricked his
Il he did not come out.
m stuck here! refuse to be murdered!' he yelled,
won't get out from under this lounge 10 be shotl'
borhoOd had come into our yard and started tearing
the cIapboards from my fathers house, to make
themselves fire BY the roadside. NY father pro
tested.
You are spelling my house, " said he get your
wood elsewhere
4 Although he was an old Imam. feeble, over sew
enty, they set upon him.
''Who are you, priest" they shouted at him.
Ito tell US what we shall do? We are soldiers Of
the republic. You are only limb Of the old re-
ligiOn nobody believes in any more. To death
with you'll" M
They raised their guns and shot my aged father,
before he could turn or try to fee. twas wanton
thing to do. AS mourned over his body had one
death was coming to you, death Of misery. my
father" said. Perhaps you suffered less this way
than had you, too, starved to death, as my poor
mother"
AS the result Of my following in the foot process
sion of mourners at my fathers funeral discov
cred and seized by the authorities Orders came
from Moscow to send me to that city for grand
reckoning up with the All Russian Central Commit
tee. This is the supreme head Of every sort of
power in Russia to-day. As travelled could. not
help notice the sad decentralization of our railroad
system In fact, the sad Decentralization of every
institution which makes for civilization and comfort
able, decent living. In Russia everybody to-day
cept few high officials ride in baggage cars. These
few travel in grand state, but only these few.
saw persons going to Moscow pay five hundred
million rubles for ticket, enough money to have al
most bought the whole railroad system of Russia be-
fore the revolution. Then the conductor would not
let them into the baggage unless they brbed
him also: It had to be million rubes at the very
his fingers. One finger meant million rube bribe;
two meant two millions. | saw white and trem-
bling woman hold UP her whole hand. That meant
five millions.
Get in and God bless you!" shouted this officer
of the 'free state" AS we rode on watched with
aching heart new miseries Of my native country
fold themselves on all sides.
Several people. very i'll and unattended died in
the straw of that baggage the first night we
progressed at snails pace. Nobody knew what to
do with their poor bodies. For the next day there
from my of the car to several of my fell
low passengers robbing them of all they had The
last sad detail came when the poor living wretches
drew off the boots and the trousers of the poor vic
TINS who were dead. The train then was passing
through waste of snow-bound fields After all the
clothing was taken the door opened. The dead
people were lifted, poised and pitched out, naked
among the cruel SHOWS of their cruel country.
Finally arrived in Moscow, after the train had
taken twenty-one days for journey which normally
requires only seven. l was ordered to report to
Commissar Derznsky, who already had been given
the title Most Terrible Man in All Russia" Every
where he was known by reputation That he, with
his own hands, in the bloodiest days, had murdered
one hundred Monarchst generals was said to be
matter of public record In fact it was these one
hundred decapitations, accomplished in one after
noon, after patient gathering of the generals for
weeks, that had really made Derznsky great man
among the Bosheviks.
They dumped me out on the platform, to meet
my waiting escorts, as lmpersOnally as if had been
bundle Of food just arrived from the country for
Trotsky,