Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
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Q. What date 3s this now?
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A. This is June 25, 1919. !'Firi:&y, -June 27; At office t 50 Svetlansakaya,
[I spent ] all day going over %he records , Nursi
departmnt only
establjshed recently. *'Saturday, June 28; went to Russ an Island in the
afternoon to visit the hospital." ~hzk-~s where we had n es working before
ours (~ame, you see. And then they could relieve each 0th r.
Q. That was the nanre of it, Russian Island?
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A. Yes, and it was--I believe it was said to be seven
Vladivostok. In the winter we could walk across on the
to. I know one tine arls cam over to Vladivistok.
a car, so they walked. And they tho@t they were
bad. But they didn't need to walk, they di&?,t need to "Tne hospital
over them was buiLt in 1914 to 1918 especially
has been used by the krican Red Cross for caring for Czwhs since August,
1918. I1 See, the war was still on. "Dpened by Mr. Fl~ston, an American salesman,
Captain Roach, St. Louis physicim, is in charge. mss Dewar js chief
nurse. Russian Bland is forty minutes by boat f'mm VlaclLvostok on Golden
Horn Bay. If You could see that from ow windms. I later had a room of rry
own. "It is fifteen miles long and ten miles wide, beautgfully adapted to
hospital needs. The scenery, the good air and sunli@t ape excellent. The
hospital is now used for civilians who are browt from Tadisvostok hospital,
a receivfng hospital.. Russian Island is equipped with swthing like four
hundred military buildings. " I donf t think that s riat., I had it in pencil
and then I went over part of it with ink. More likely one hundred
military buildin@. Anyhow, there was an awful lot of "mst of them
red brick. It was the plan of the Russian govemnt no stone m-
turned to wipe Japan off the face of the e&h after
War in 1904. Russian Island, as a result was the
the world. Tne same plan of fortfflcation has been c-d out all around
Vladlvostok. Wst of the rdlitauy building3 in and am@ Vladivostok, excepting
Russian Island, are wed as barracks for the varlpus troops. At
ni@t ARC old personnel wve a- (chuckles) the ones that preceded i.~--'~~dmce
for the new personnel. "
"Smday, Jme 29, 1929; Today the allied forces celebmed the capture of
Vladivostok one year ago by the Czechs from the Bolshevil@. A s
held for them on a widely paved avenue ascending to the qathe
gold do=. Each allied was represented by a goodly sized c
It was quite a beautiful si@t. The blending of the varjsaus uni
the gray blue of the French and the Poles, the khaki of the
the Japanese with their yellowish kh*i and bright red tl?linanin@,
greenish gray, the hamites wlth their flaring brimd hats
sailors with white caps and blue uniform, the Czechs wl* greenis
and violet tmng. There were also the Russians, the &inese, t
the Brittish and the Cossacks, the latter looking like a field of
wfth their yellow caps and stqipes s W g in the sun.
The tmps stood at attention ddng the cerem3ny in @idh priests in
brilliant gowns chanted, and d he generals of the various mmies reviewed.