The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-31

tthat was one point on which the imperiaIists
relied TO have us fight the Bolsheviks).
To our surprise, when we got to a pig stable
we found five former policemen and one army
officer housed there by kulak and his ex-
cellency, the pig himself. This gave me another
shock and made me TO think We we're not to
clear the Ukraine Of some troops but we were
there to drive out the revolutionary workers
and to plumber the country
The kulak was glad to see us and gave us the
pig free of charge. The policemen wanted us
to give them our uniforms, they we're afraid of
staying in their outfit.
Smashed Wireless Outfit.
I then noticed that the motornan who was
assigned to duty with me as the operator was
slow in doing things. took him into confidence
and we talked things over. The result was that
the Cransmttter went out Of commission and we
had TO leave for Zmerinka in order that the 18th
Austrian army had some communication with
the other armies. nZmerinka we proceeded in
the same manner. This was the town Of Cen
eral Brussilow's headquarters. The transnnitter
was a permanent outfit and that was also not so
hard 70 wreck. The condensers were soon put out
OF commission and the army had no way Of
communication because spare parts were not at
hand
In Odessa
From here we proceeded to Odessa II was
terribly cold by this time and we were moving
slowly on open cars. With our outfit was also
moved bombing planes We did not like that
either, that bombing stuff, so we made Joke
out Of 1t by emptying the barrels containing
benzine for this flying outfit And as soon as we
arrived at Odessa we celebrated that big ex-
ploSion that took place outside OF that city
Whole piles of ammunition we're learning how
to fly.
Then the city of Emerson was to be destroyed,
according to the con1nandant Of the Austrian
general OF the seth Division, If the inhabitants
did not deliver their hidden weapons within AZ
hours time. He was going to bomb that city,
but his fliers discovered that the gasoline tanks
were dry and drilled so that they would not
hold any gasoline even If they had any
Yes, the cities were taken. occupied, but each
step deeper meant the end Of the glory" of the
German-Austrian empires. The orders from Of
ficers were scarcer and scarcer, there was no
cooperation but on the contrary spite work
grew and grew.
The PIundering Captain.
The Austrian army had the Linienschiffs cap
tain, Malrarich, who collected everything from
rags to train loads Of wheat and grains and was
shipping 10 10 Austria.
This piunderer constantly laid the stress on
Martupol on the Azov sea- The Germans took
step further in order TO be closer to the gran
airy of Europe and took Taganrog I gave them
all the communication that they needed Then
our filed transnlitter put up. Forthwith it
was put out of commission. They put us to do
our communicative work on that passenger
steamer Russian, which was located in the
port at that time. and it only took few hours
time to have that destroyed and put out of COM
mission.
Then we. we're moved to the passenger steamer
Jerusalem. An officer was placed on duty
with each operator, but such officers do not
amount to very much since they are ignorant
regarding the care OF such apparatus. The com
munication was again broken off, A new field
outfit had 10 be brought to Mariupol and that
was the last one that had TO be destroyed, be-
cause by this time everybody was doing as he
pleased. The officers gold and silver colors were
ripped off their coats and we aaixed freely with
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