Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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A. No, no. I don't think so. The Bolsheviki did this, ou see. I'm
going back now. "Train full of Bolsheviki had been naile up. I'
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Q. The White Russians nrust've done that.
A. Well, yes. That's right.
Q. Be Bolsheviki were Reds. I
A. That's ri$-it, Well, anyhow, they starved the-our rican Red Cnoss
tried to do something about it.
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"September 7, 19L9; Reached Khailar about 10: 00 a.m. and ~ ~ here for e d
a couple of hours, + Had a nice walk with Lieutenant Yeato ,"--that nice
little Amri~an--throu@S?~the ,tam which was very interest g. Saw people
eessed in their Sunday clothes, little girls in white ha s and dresses,
going to church. l1 Now that sounds like civilization. Th old town, swrounded
by a mud wall, lies two miles away.'' Now that's an i a. When they get
tired of a town, just build another one. "At 5:00 p.m. w reached Manchuria
station where we rewined mtil ten o'clock the next m g. Wait due to
failure of milmad to provide an enme and attach two s ply cars. Saw
custom examination of baggage. Many foreiw people, Bfit sh, Swedish and
so forth. Met W. Holland, an ARC trained captain ~tun$ng to Vladivostok
on an express. Bou&tnt photos of Bolsheviki massacre in a1 region. "
Baikal is the name of a wmderful lake there and there a$" great t unne 1s
that go throw at one end of it. And the train goes th$@ those. "Walked
up and down tracks with Dr. Watt. Saw many strange pers
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ages, many officers,
Japs , Cossacks, Russians, French and so forth. Saw Fren troop and equipment
tra9n going toward Vladivrostok showing withdrawal o Erench. Took pictures
of station. View of Russian Manchuria and some t*c& chwacters.
"Mandgy-3eptder. 8,-1919; l!bnchwia station is not thq frontier bounm.
The actual f'mntier is fowlteen miles, twenty verst west of Manchuria station.
On leaving Manchuria we plunged W s t imdiately into we desert. At Intervals
there was always at least one we11 constructed hwe which $emred
as a place of abode for the railroad official. l?requentw there wep seen
mud houses. After riding all day, 81 miles from Manchur* station,
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verst-tha,tls forty miles--we passed Dauria where there *re thirty to fiey
large brfck bdldings. They were built during the world war, used bavracks
for officer prisoners of war.
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"~noff"--now that was the one that declared himself a dic8ator--f~ememff
under Kolchak troops revolted here a few weeks ago, and qvidences were seen
of the fi&ting. Tom up pund and phattered buildings, At Borz&i we
saw a horrible si@t. A refugpe train bound for Vladivoijtok had about
five or six cars of Bolsheviki prisoners who were sick eth typhus. " Now
that's the disease spread about by the bite of a louse.
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