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Countess Ludmila O'Brien de Lacy writes to the Times

On January 1, 1919, the Red troops marched into Riga. The order was given to receive them on the main Alexander Street with flowers, and enthusiasm, The order, I suppose, was execut- ed. There is an old Russian saying, "Give a trough and the pigs will appear." The trough was there and, the pig rejoiced, no doubt, but on the town there lay a general air of consternation.

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The streets were full of people with bags and baskets storming every kind of foodshop in their endeavour to bring home is much food as possible. Prices tose every hour. Lucky were those who could pay the fantastic sums demanded and lay in a store, because a few days later alishops were "nationalized" and closed, and the markers empty. There was much talk about large Government shops of the future, where every working man and for wonderfully low prices could get all the necessi ties of life and the "bourgeois" nothing. Meanwhile "bourgeois" or not, it was impossible to buy a pin or a potato. If you did buy anything it had to be done in strictest secrecy. Here are some of the prices-A pound of onions. 50 roubles, a bottle of milk 8 roubles, a pound of butter 60 roubles. а

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of black cornfour 30 roubles. The peasants had no faith in Soviet money and would sel only for Tsarist roubles.. A peasant fold me of a rather quaint bargain. He had consented to fell a pig toe Red Guard for Soviet money, ph condition that the pig should be entirely en- veloped and hidden in sheets made of banknotes. But of course everybody could not pay such prices and the majority of the non-communistic population was Eterally starving

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soldiers. My room was a modest as we were left them by the "Red far. My neighbour was a teacher brotherhood."

like myself." The two remaining So great was the pumber of rooms and the kitchen were deaths, especially from spotted occupied by our landlady, her typhus fostered by enforced dir- mother, and her four children.tines (there was no soap) huuger,

all They were very poor. Often hari ¦ and kind of privations

The

I seen these children crying that athe churchyards there bitterly with hunger. We had was a queue of people none of the attributes of the hate-waiting for their turn to bury fui bourgeois, but it did not help their dead. The Red newspapers us much we had the night visits (no others were permitted) did all the same. One of them lasted not mention such a thing, of from 2 o'clock in the morning course, but I had a good oppor- I saw a decently dressed gentle- till 9. Every single thing was tunity of knowing this, as for one man sitting on a bench in a turned topsy-turvy and when "the time I helped in the town typhus- square with an empty basket in benefactors of the people" left. barracks, where the nurses were his hand, dead from hunger. Such having eaten all they could find overwhelmed with work. a sight was not uncommon. We to eat, and taken away nearly all Red guards when they died were fed on unpeeled potatoes and our clothing, our rooms were borne to their last resting-places black flour boiled in

a sight. I could not photo-in vivid water,

red coffins.. These and even that was hard

to graph the

as my Kodak had coffins looked exactly as if they obtain. There were four cate-long ago been nationalised." had been dipped. in the blood gories of bread-cards, which were Very rude and rough to begin which their owners had shed. supposed (leaving the bourgeoisie with, the searchers became more Highly unpleasant was the nearly breadless) to supply the amiable as the night wore on. position of people employing ser- working class with about 16 per They made themselves at home vants. Luckily I was not among day. But in reality, except the in the kitchen, drank our tea with them. You had no right to dis- communists. few ever re- our sugar and made pancakes miss any of the servants, how- ceived the bread due to them from flour and fat they had found ever bad, rude, or dishonest, according to their cards. To get it in the neighbouring flats. They without the permission of the one had to stand hours in an end-invited us to join the feast, but "Servante Soviet," which always less quene, and it was almost up-

we declined, saying we had no fined the employers enormous eatable when you did get it. There appetite at night. One of my sums or imprisoned them. These were people's kitchens. Queues pupils, a medical student, had who could not afford to face the of several hundreds of shivering, some valable medical books. justice of the "Servants Soviet hungry people, stood hour after These were torn to pieces by the had to be prepared for every kind hour in the frost or rain to receive zealous searchers under the pre-of humiliation. I heard a cook a plate of watery soup for 50 text that anti-revolutionary let-say to the daughter of the house. roubles. The streets looked ters might be hidden between the a very nice and highly cultivated girl, "Now, Miss, it's our turn; diemal; all the shops were closed, Į pages. and hungry-looking people, shab- Another day we woke to find a you shall sleep in my room and When I next bily dressed. huried along with decree ordering us to leave curI will have yours." a haunted look on their thin rooms within 12 hours, and for- called, the cook was installed in faces. The only richly dressed bidding us to take anything away the girl's room receiving one of women were the communist but a small bundle of clothes. All her friends, a Red guard." A par- battalion," who walked about the furniture had to be left. lourmaid in my presence "ad- with guns, acting partly as

Whole streets were turned out of dressed her mistress in terms of nature that I hesi- kind of police partly as,spics. their lodgings, which were then such a

occupied by different tate taking a particularly active and partly

repeat them. Hall- ferocious part in domiciliary

"Red" ir atitutions, officials, and porters enjoyed the special favour visits and arrests. I never saw Commissaries, partly left empty.of the "Sariet Government." were always They were expected, and often such malignant low, truly wicked The best houses faces as those of these "gallant taken, of course Passing befor: justly, to give much useful infor- Red AmazonS." Nobody

was one of them I saw pictures, mirmation about the political opin-) safe anywhere. To dress a little 70 s, chia, and other possessions ions of the tenants. They were "Take nearly always transferred from smarter, to present a little more fiving out of the window.

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civilized appearance, a mere it, it is the property of the the porter's lodge to one of the smile even, was enough to be bourgeois, therefore it is yours." best flate of the houses, and every arrested or sent to full some cried an enthusiastic Bolshevist, tenant had to win their favour dirty work or dig graves for the flinging one thing after another under the fear of being reported "anti-Revolutionists" who had to

And passers-by. In an-as an anti-revolutionist.

a Red woe to such! Under different been shot. When there was a other house I saw

A pride of the pretexts, and often without any, rumour of the White troops Guard advancing a decree was issued revolutpat cutting a magnifi- there were continued arrests. forbidding the bourgeoisie to smile cent antique tapestry to use it as Thousands of people, men, wo- in the street, this being regarded a handkerchief. It is certainly men and even school children, Es showing an unseemly joy. true that most of the Bolshevist were thrown into prisons to be One of my pupils, a young leaders are Jews, but in common starved and ill-treated in the best student, walking one evening

justice I must say that in my ex-cases, and too often shot, not many seldom after torture. A young with a lady and smiling as young perience I have seen as men generally do in ladies' arrests and requisitionings taking officer I had known as a boy, Eociety, was actually arrested, place among the Jews as among Prince Meshersky, before being

LONDON DIRECTORY only set free in the morning the Christians. Their faith did shot at Kieff bad his Cross of St.

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