CZECH VICTORY
WITNESSED BY
RELIEF WOMAP
OMSK, Siberia, March 12 (Corre!
pondence of the Associated Press).
Exciting adventures have fallen to th
lot of Mrs. Carl C. Compton, of Ch:
cago, who, with American womanl
pluck, has accompanied her husban
in many months of humanitarian rt
lief work among the Armenians am
later during the most exciting me
ments of the Bolshevik revolution
They had never left Illinois befor
coming to the Caucasus for the Com
mittee on Armenian Relief. Now, Mi
Compton is in charge of the Ameri
can Young Men's Christian Asocia
tion work at Omsk.
They were first stationed at Alex
andropol, Caucasus, then in the hand
of the Russians, and were occupiei
with industrial relief work. Position!
were found for refugees as they ar
rived, fleeing from Turkey. They es
timate that they and other member!
of the corps distributed clothing foi
15,000 Armenian orphans, whose par
ents had been masacred by the Turks
Help was furnished to about 60,00*
refugees.
Then, sudenly, the Russian revolu
tion developed. The Bolshevik
abandoned the battle front and thi
Turkish army advanced. It was fearet
that the Germans would come dowr
the Black Sea and seize the line from
Batum to Tiflis. The American con
sul advised all the Americans to leav<
at once, and a special train conveyinj
sixty foreigners finally arrived a
Baku on the Caspian sea. There thej
were caught in a battle between Bol
sheviki and Armenians on one sid<
and Tartars on the other. The streel
in which they lived was dominated bj
Tartars who sprayed the roadwaj
with machine-gun bullets. For threi
days they did not dare leave thi
house and had only bread to live on
Eventually, by paying a high price
they were able to charter a special
steamer for Astrakhan, which is sit
uated at the mouth of the Volga. “We
had to sleep on the deck throughout
the whole trip,” said Mrs. Compton
"The crew and the families of the
crew slept in the cabins, and refused
to give t,hem up.
"We waited for two weeks for the
ice to break up in the Volga and then
we went up to Samara. The others
went on to Vladivostok. The Bolshe
viki were in possession of Samara
(then, but we were able to carry on
general relief. Thousands o^ refugees
came through and we stafted a soup
kitchen at the station. Later,
maternity and general hospitals were
organized.
i- “We had rather an exciting time at
- Samara when the Czechs came in. We
> lived not far from the river between
- the Bolshevik barracks and the prin
r cipal Bolshevik club of the city. The
1 place drew most of the shell-fire from
- the Czech army. Bullets came through
1 our windows and our room became
- filled with brick dust from the explod
. ing shells. The Bolshevik soldiers lay
s flat upon the club roof and fired down
- on the Czech soldiers, so we had a
. very good view of the fighting. From
- my window I could have touched the
- j Bolshevik troops with my hand.
“We were awfully glad to get Sown
■ into tlie cellar. There was a slit in the
• wall and we could see the end of the
l battle. Finally we heard the Czechs
1 cheering, and saw people running
■ from the house, all making the sign
■ of the cross. The Czechs had won.
1 Everybody put on their best clothes
and paraded in the streets with bands.
■ Coliect)ons were taken up for the
- Czechs, who were hailed as heroes
1 and deliverers.
“When the Bolsheviki had the city
■ we would see them' lying in the
i streets. They were always chewing
: sun-flower seeds.”
Mr. Compton said he had never
seen any Bolshevik atrocites but he
had seen proclamations issued by the
Bolsheviki declaring they would
butcher the people if they captured
the city. He said that once a Bol
shevik broke into an American's room
but had immediately apologized, add
ing that America was the only friend
Russia had.
Mr. Compton also said that Russian
officers told him nine-tenths of the
people became Bolsheviki because
they didn’t have enough to live on,
and because they thought, anything
would be better than their present
condition.
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FROM SWEDISH IMPORT
STOCKHOLM, April 21 (by Asso
ciated. Press).—An eight-hour bill for
all classes of Swedish labor is now
ready to .be introduced into parlia
ment. Special legislation will be
necessary for seamen and for workers
in mines. The proposals, if passed,
will come into force June 1, 1920, and
elapse December 31, 1923.
The immediate effect of the pro
posed bill is an enormous fall in the
price of stocks, as manufacturers as
sert that wages now being paid will
make it impossible for Swedish fac
tories to continue production.
Shoe manufacturers have decided
to close down their works on April 25.
Others are contemplating similar
measures which by the spring may
J throw hundreds of thousands of work
ers out of employment.
The economic and politcal prospect
is considered very pessimistic and in
order to avoid placing masses of
laborers on the unemployment list,
the government is seriously consid
ering the prohibition of imports of
certain articles until industry as
sumes a moral normal condition.
Among the first articles mentioned to
be barred from import are American
shoes and soap.
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