Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Cross, the Italian, French, Ehglish, Serbian, Russian, Czech, Japanese,
Chinese, as well as diplomtic services. There were many Russian officials
also with their families. Many pretty and well4re8sed women were
there with garden party frocks of fim texture. It was + beautiful
affair unlike anythhg one mi&t expect to see in Siberia)" I ~me&er
the pretty parasols of the well-dressed womn. That madeiit more decorative
,=you see.
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Q. Did you wear your uniform?
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A. Oh, yes. m, yes, you had to. Oh no, I had a dress 1 could waar back
at .the barracks. That was the dress in the picture that $ went to Francisco
In, with the little buttons all the way down. 111 e@,joyed the lride
home over the hills in a F-sench car with Captain and MPS. Cook,~Ame~ican Red
Cross.
"August 23 to 25; This will record a trip to Razdolnoe, a place about fif'ty
vemt--a versta is about three quarters of a mile roughly-north of Vladivostok
and the point where Corrpanies F and M of the Unite0 States 31st Infantry
have been stationed she last Septerber. "There @re thirty Red Cross
ladies in our party and Major Lyons, director of the milibry relief', " that's
the ARC rrAlitauy relief, "also 31st Infantry band." See!, these boys were
shut off f'mmtheir own relief places so we had to take the party to them.
llOur parby is the very first that these boys at Razdolnoe have had, and they
surely were glad to see us. We arrdved at about 6 : 00 p . and ~ after, a delf&tful
dinner in the officer's mss where we had all OF our meals, we assembled
at an arrazsemnt hall and danced mtil mLdni@t. $?he boys were packed
around the edges and, of course, them was pat vying fop the comparatfvely
few girls.
The next mrming them was a ballgm and here was demonstrated the spltendid
spirit of good fellowship between the mn and the officem. That the men
adored their chiefs was proven beyond a doubt by the intepse cheering and
rooting when an officer came on the field. After the gar@ . . . 11
Q. Is this a football game or baseball?
A. I guess baseball. "The next mormFng there was a bal
f-
." I think it
was baseball. llAfter the @;a, some of us went thm@ e hospital. Many
veneral cases." Oh, dear. ''me physician made a state t to me that s i ~ y
per cent of the En and officers of our Siberian expedit' n are afflicted."
Oh, I donlt how whether that ought to be in there.
Q. C&, sue. That's no problem about that.
A. "With Major Lgons I then took sane pictures. Tried a seation of
the Trans-Siberian railmad showing a cumre as well as of the wide,
wide plains wnhauvested, in v#~ich its dormant
is much wild
hay. Sam of which is reaped, but lack of
and thrift is evident everywhwe.
After another good dinner &y was loaded Into
engine over which the Army has control and by hrican soldiers.
We were taken wuzel about ten verst