WAR- CHRONICLE

to fetch his wife so that she could feast her eyes on this example
of Russian barbarism. In the " Etappen prisons " for the most part
there were no cells and all the prisoners lay crowded together on
the floor of the large spaces, which were not only cold, but swarming
with lice and bugs. In Labucha, Herr Hâring was confined for four
d&ys in a cell with five Russians, one of whom was a ragged imbecile,
who wandered round the whole night talking to himself.
From there, lie should have marched on further but because he was
ill he was at last allowed to drive, however, the cold was so intense
that he could never stay in the carriage for a long time, owing to
his scanty clothing, and was obliged to walk through the groundless
roads in spite of his tattered shoes. Arrived in Menselinsk, he was
at once thrown into prison and could not procure either his clothes
or his money, so that he was not even able to purchase tea and
sugar to add to the hot water. His fare consisted of black bread
and a disgusting prison broth served in a fillhy tin can. On 24th November,
after almost 4 months captivity, he was suddenly set on
the street without a penny or any of his belongings, but finally a
merchant, who was quite a stranger to him, lent him 25 rubels so
that lie was able to go to Ufa, where he finally procured his money
and luggage. In Petersburg, he was again imprisoned, and all
letters addressed to him, or written by him in the course of these
5 months have been held up.
Herr Forner was sent beyond Moscow, and suffered greatly
from the coarse conduct of subalterns. He was compelled to do all
kinds of hard work. The bodily examinations to which he was
subjected in each prison on arrival and departure, were carried
out in a rough inhuman way, and were bitterly complained of by
the other officials also. In Perm, the prisoners were not allowed
any exercise, there he lay between a man recovering from typhus
and one who was highly consumptive.
The actuary Herold's stage journey lasted 2 months and 8 days
and during this time (with exception of his stay in prisons) he was
dependent on 10 Kopeks a dav for provisions, as his money had
been taken from him. Part of the journey he had to make on foot
in company of three depraved men. Having arrived at his destination
Malmysch, he was at once sent back, but as his feet were blistered,
he was allowed to drive, which latter however, owing to the temperature
and his scanty clothing was not any improvement. He was
allowed to travel free from Wiatka to Petersburg, where he was
at once re-arrested. It can clearly be seen that these useless journevs
throughout European Russia were only carried out with the
object of heightening the torture and injuring the health of the
prisoners. ,
The recitation of the tortures and persecutions to which the
other gentlemen were subjected, would be too monotonous, but we
wish to give the experiences of Herr Wohlenberg, who, after 4 weeks,
arrest, was sent to Tobolsk in Sibiria, and en route, made the
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