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EXPERIENCE OF
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ON OOSS IRIS
LONDON, May 8 (by mail).—The
hardships of railway travel during the
present disorganization in Russia
were brought home repeatedly to the
members of the American Red Cross
mission to Rupiania on their journey
from Jassy to Murmansk. The dis
tance is about 2,500 miles, but the
mission was nearly a month on the
way, averaging less than 100 miles a
day. Even after reaching Murmansk'
the Americans lived on their railway
! trains for two weeks while waiting1
! for a boat.
Murmansk is 150 miles north of;
the Arctic circle, and the cold during!
parts of the journey was severe. None |
of the railway cars had any heating
arrangements. During the coldest,
weather many of the doctors and;
nurses remained in bed all day to keep
warm.
American ingenuity made a brave'
effort to remedy the lack of heating
arrangements by building small;
stoves of brick, stones and pieces of |
sheet iron. These stoves were built
in the corridors or aisles of the cars
and veere fed with wood and charcoal
i picked up along the line. They were
not very successful as heating appli
ances, but were occasionally useful
for making hot coffee or tea.
The new order of things which the
Bolsheviki has introduced into Russia
was perpetually in evidence. Every
where along the line the officers in
| charge of the train had to deal with
Russians who thought they had as
good a right as anybody else to travel
on it. Unbidden guests were always
coming on board. At night they would
often enter by way of the windows,
some merely looking for a ride, others
in search of plunder. The Americans
all slept with their revolvers under
their pillows, ready to repel boarders.
At almost every railway station
there were prolonged arguments and
altercations. Excursion parties of
Russian soldiers would express a de
sire to travel a few hundred versts
with the mission, and the French sol
diers who accompanied the mission
would explain that it was impossible.
The disorganization of the railway
system was well nigh complete. There
was no semblance of train dispatch
ing. Once or twice a day a train go
ing in the opposite direction would
be encountered. In this case both
trains would stop, pour parlers would
ensue, and one train or the other
would go back to the nearest siding.
The stations were badly kept and
had generally become the headquar
ters of a sort of local Soviet, which
was anxious to Impress its impor
tance upon the passengers of every
train. Waiting rooms and platforms
were filled with soldiers, ex-soldiers,
coolies and nondescripts.
The self-constituted authorities at
each station were a perpetual nuis
ance. Every station Soviet had to
have the whole business of the mis
sion explained to it. and the difficul
ties which Immediately arose could
only be solved by a plentiful distri
bution of rubles and cognac. The to
tal amount of money distributed by the
French officers in charge of the train
during a four weeks’ trip would easily
have paid for the train twice over. The
Americans wished to share this ex
pense proportionately, but the
French insisted on paying it all. The
French also insisted on supplementing
the Americans’ food suplies.
The Bolsheviki everywhere showed
a remarkable friendliness fro the lit
tle groups of Americans on board the
train. “The French belong to the
bourgeoisie, but the Americans are
just as good Bolsheviki as we are,”
said one Soviet leader in an address
of welcome at a tiny village station'
north of Moscow. Occasionally a Rus-|
sian who had been in America was
encountered.
During the severe weather one of
the French officers, Colonel Odone,
fell ill with pneumonia and ied in
his berth a few days later. His body
was taken off the train near Mur
mansk and buried beside the track.
All the American and French offi
cer, sand deputations of British, Ital
ian and Serbian military men from
trains which immediately preceded)
the Franeo-American train, attended!
the funeral service on the snow-cov
ered field. The grave was marked
with a cross made from fir tree
boughs by members of the American
delegation. Over the coffin, at Col.
Odone's request, were draped the flags
of France, the United States and the
other allies.
At Vologda the train halted for
nearly a day, and the Americans
paid a visit to the American embassy
which consisted of three railway cars
drawn up on a siding near the sta
tion. The American ambassador had a
private car of Pullman type, a din
ing car, and a first class sleeper.
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