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THIS STARTS THE STOHY
In tho summer of 1917 Maria
iBotchkareva formed tho Battalion
otDeith, a woman's fighting unli in
th Russian army, and thus a peas
ant girl stepped into the interna
tional hall of fame. This Is her
story. In earlier installments sho
told of her childhood, of tho hrutall
ties; of her married life and the real
ization of her t sh to become a sol
dier. Sho told of battles fought and
won and of the demoralization of tho
army following the overthrow of tho
Czar. It was to shame t!ie men Into
' action that the battalion was formed,
but it was only partially success
ful; and, by and by, the Bolshcviim
Infected soldiers forced the mem
bers to disband and Botchkare a re
turns to Petrograd.
And here it continues
PETROGRAD seemed populated b
Red Guards. One couid not make
a step without encountering one
Thay kept a strict watch over tho
slaton and all tha incoming and out-
6olng trains.' My escorts left mo on
the station platform, ns they wero to
return to the front immediately.
I (had hardly emerged from the sta
tion, Intending to look for a cabman.
When a Red Guard commissary, ac
companied bja prhato with a naked
saber, stopped mo with the polite
query:
"Madame Botchkareva""
"Yes."
"Will you come with me, please?"
he suggested.
"Where?" I asked.
"To the Smolny Institute."
"But why?"
"Because I have orders to detain all
officers returning from the front," he
replied.
''But I am only going home! " I tried
to argue.
"Yes, I understand. But as an of
ficer you will also understand that I
must obey orders. They will probably
release you."
He hailed a cabman and we drove
to 'the Smolny Institute, tha seat of
the Bolshevist Government. It im
pressed mo as a heavily beleaguered
castle. There were armed sentries e i
erywhere. Accompanied bv a Red i
Guard, I was led Inside. There weie
guards at every desk. I was taken he
fore a sailor. He was ery rough and
brusque.
"Where are you going?" he deJ
manded curtly.
"I am going home, to a village nca
Tomsk," I replied.
"Then why are jou armed?" he
sneered.
"Because I am an officer, and this
Is nty uniform," I answered.
Ho blazed up.
ffj. An oracer, eh? Tou will be an of-
Lfejf flcernomorc, Gle me that pistol and
Bf'SB saberl" he ordered.
Sr Th rra t?eim Mine rli , , ma
(thaj consecration of. the Battalion's
. (lu. r rjrlzed' them tho much tn Imnd ,
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W5tu uivui uki imu luai iu hub rusue UL n.
m,.. AAilnr. nnd rf-filspd hi rfpmftnrl TF
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jft grew rurious. 11 wouia nave neon
Ci futile to resist as tho room was full of
sO, Red Guards. I declared that If ho
3 wanted mv nrms he rnulri takA them. I
Bs' but I would ncer surrender them
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He violently tore tho pistol and
saber from me and pronounced mo
under arrest. There was a dark cellar
Iij'tho Institute which was used as a
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j-vflown there and locked un. I was nun-
C irrv but rcceUed no answer to all my
fi nalla anil ...im i . n,t In (ha linla till
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mfsH the following morning. As soon as I
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MKOL'.t LEiNIM:
beiMt signed What jou are doing will
ruin Russia"
"We are sending tho soldiers nwaj
because the Germans will not iirHanco
against us am how The do not want
to fight, either," was tho icply.
It In Hated me this 'ew of the Ger
mans held b the turn who now ran
the goeinment of im countn
"You don't know the Germans'" I
cried out "We ha lost so manv
lles In this war. and now ou would
gle eerj thing away without ,i stiug
gle' You don t know wai! Take the
soldiers awav from the front and the
Germans will como and Riab eery
thing within reach. This Is war. I
Given a Passport to Her
Home in Tomsk, She Is
Attached by Brutal Sol
dicrs and Thrown Bodily
From the Train, Receiv
ing Serious Injuries
ntn a soldier nml T know. But ou
don't Why did ou take it upon jour
helves to rule the country" You will
ruin It!" I exclaimed in ansulsh
I.enlne and Trotsk laughed I
could eo the iroin in their eyes The
wero learned and worldly They had
wiitten books and trueled In foreign
lands And who was I' An Illiterate
Russian peasant woman Mj lecture
amused them undoubledl They
smiled condescendingly at tin sugges
tion that thev did not know what war
was in roillty
T rejected theli propoal (o co oper
ate with them and asked If I were free
to leae One of them law: a hell and
a Red Guird entered He was re
quested to accompan tne out of the
room and to piovlde me with a pass
port and a fiee ticket to Tom&k. Be
foio Ienlnc I asked for my aims, but
was refueil I esplalned that the
were parti j of gold and glen to me
on an occasion that tendered them al
most priceless to me TIion answered
that I would rocole them bsck ns soon
as ordei wss icstorcd Of colliso. I
neer got them back.
1 left the room without bidding good
b. In the net loom I was given a
passpoi t and proceeded bv tramcar to
tho station I decided not to tarry In
Petrogiad and to depart without oen
seeing am of m friends On tho wa)
I was recognbed eiei where, but was
allowed to piocced unmolested The
same evening I boaided one of the
three cars attached to a train that
went by the way of Vologda and Tche
llablnsk directly to Irkutsk. I was
going home With me I had some two
thousand rubles, saved during my
command of tho battalion, when I re
ceived a salary of four hundred t utiles
a month.
Tho train was overcrowded with re
turning aoldlers, almost all fervid Bol
shevlka. I remained in tho compart
ment for eight days, leaving it only
occasionally at night. I sent a passen.
ger companion out at stations to buy
food. A we neared Tchcllablnsk, at
the end of eight dajs, tho crowd had
thinned out and I thought r would
be safe in going out on the platform
and getting off at tho great terminal
for a little walk. No 'sooner had I
reached the platform than I was rec
ognized by some soldiers.
"Ah look who is here!" one ex
claimed. "It's Botchkareva! The harlot!" a
couple of others echoed.
"She ought to bo killod!" shouted
somebody.
"Why?" I turned on them. "What
harm have I done to jou? Ah, jou
fools, fools!"
Tho train slowed down approaching
the station. I had scarcely turned mv
head away from the insolent fellows
when I was suddenly lifted by two
pahs of arms swung back and foith,
once, twice, three times, and thrown
off tho moving train.
Fortunately the momentum of the
swinging was so great that T was
thrown across the parallel tiacks and
landed In q bank of snow piled along
the railroad It was the end of No
vember, 1917. It was all so sudden
that tho laughter of tho brutes back
of mo still rang In mj cais as I be
camo conscious of pain in my right
knee
The train was halted before pulling
into the station. In a few moments
there was a big crowd around me, 'at
passengets, railway officials and others
All were Indignant at tho outlaw rv
of the soldiers. The commandant of
the station and members of the local
committee hurried to the place. I was
placed on a stretcher and taken to tho
hospltnl on the grounds It was found
that T had a dislocated kneo and mv
leg was bandaged. I then declared
that I desired to continue tho journey
and I was given a berth in a hospital
coach, attached to a train going east.
Theto were attendants and a medical
assistant on the car.
My. Injured leg pained more and
more as I proceeded homeward It
began to swell and tho medical as
slstant telegraphed to the station
master of Tutalsk, the village in which
my folks now lived, to provide a
sti etcher for me.
My sister, Arlna. was employed at
the station as attendant at the tea
kettle, which is always kept boiling
at Russian railway stations! It was
this emplojment of hers that had
caused the family to move to Tutalsk
from Tomsk, where they had no means
of livelihood whatever. When the
message from the Interne in charge
of the car reached my sister and
through her my parents, there was an
outburst of lamentation. It was three
years since they had seen their Ma
rusia and now sho was apparently
being brought to them on her death
bed! On tho fourth day of tho Journey
from Tchellablnsk the train stopped
at Tutalsk. My leg was badlv swollen
and was as heay as a log. The pains
wero agonizing. My face was pallid.
A stretcher was prepared for me at
the station. My sisters, my mother
and father and the statlonmaster were
at tho door of the coach when I was
.nrria,! nut. Mv mother shrieked
heartrending!', "My Marusla! Mv
Manka!" clasped her hands toward
iienven nml threw herself full length
on me, mourning over me as if I were
ready for burial.
Her prodigal daughter had returned
mv mother walled, but In what condi
tion! Sho thought that I must have
been wounded and asked to be sent
homo to die. I could not talk. I
could not grasp her bony arms, as a
gush of tears and sobs choked my
throat. Everybody was crying, my
sinters ralllnc me by caressing names,
my white and bent father standing
over me, nnd even the strange station
master. I became h.vsterlcal and tho doctoi
was sent for He had mo removed
home Immediately, promising in re
snonse to mv mother's pleas to do
evervthlntr In his nower fo' me. I
lcmalned 111 for a month, passing
Christmas nnd meeting tho New Year,
1918, In bed.
Tho 2000 rubles I hnd Mved I gave
to my parents. But this sum, consla
eted a fortune "before the war, was
barely sufficient for a few months'
living. It cost nearlv 100 rubles to
buy a pair of slippers for my joungest
sister, Nadla, who went barefoot! It
cost almost twice as much to buy her
a. second-hand lacket at tho Tomsk
tolkutchka. Manufactured goods
sold at a premium when they were to
be had, but it was much more difficult
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?-.f mand my arms. The various chiefs.
howeer, remained deaf to my pleas. (
T was informed that I would be
taken befoie l.enlne md Trofky. and i
(fa- P was soon led Into a large, light room (
WUCIU LnU IIIVIl Ul tUllliaailKb illJwa..- .
., ance sat, apparently expecting my cn-
f trance. One had a tvpical Russian
fcface, The other looked Jewish. The
, Jflrst was Nikolai Lenlne, the second
Xieon TtntsKv. Both arose as I stepped
in and walked toward me a few steps,
stretching out their hands and greet
ing me courteously.
Lenlne apologized for my arrest, ex
plaining that he had learned of it only
that morning. Inviting me to a seat.
the two Bolshevik chiefs complimented I
V&J? met- upon my record of service and i
ht rfliirairp. and becrati to sketch to tne '
sV the era of happiness that they sought I
to bring upon Russia. They talked I
simply, smoothly and very beautifully.
It was for the common people, the '
slaving masses, the under dog that '
they were flghMng. Thev wanted jus
tlce for all. Wasn't I pf the laboring I
class myself? Tes, I was. Wouldn't I
g? tJpln, them and. cooperate with their
pr? . party in bringing happiness to the op-
wanted peasant women like myself;
they aprpeciated such deeply.
."Tou will bring Russia not to happl-
Cte, but to ruin," I said.
"A.v"Why?" they asked. "We seek only
SVwhftt l good and right. The people
"$ re trlth us. Tou saw for yourself that
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A-i ft -will tell vou whv" I renlied. "I
r.haive no objection to your beautiful I
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Wvx. take the soldiers away from the front
jjy.jon are destroying the country," Ii
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h j la conclude peace," the two leaders re-
.3;.(.Ho jj- ou conclude peace with-1
tM..fintl soldiers at the front? You are de-'
m laseMllring the army already. You have
SrviSmf to make peace first and then let
?r 7ihe, men go home, i myself want
"fiBeace. but if I were In the trenches I
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and so easily prepared as Heinz Baked
Beans !
One of the
to find what one needed than to nay
an exorbitant price for It. There was
plenty of flour in the country. But
the peasants would not sell it cheaply
because they could get nothing In
town for less than fifty jr-a hundred
times Its former price. The result
was that flour sold at two tublcs a
pound. One can see how far 2000
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chased al a cost of $0,600, but that Is
as far as it has gone,
"This U to be a crucial year for At
lantic City's port aspirations," Chair
man Wilson said today. "HIlHer the city
must commercialize the channel tho gov
ernment has prolded with a steamer
line and other commerce, or It miTst
abandon hope of future government aid,
A freight line to Philadelphia Rnd a
freight and passenger line to New York
would sohe our problem, providing that
tne city auppnes wnarrage.
Port Aspirations Rest on Serv
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New York
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Cardinal Gibbons Performs thd
Consecration at Washington
Wnnlilnslon, March 31. (By A. P.).
The Rev. Dr. William Tjrner, formerly
professor of philosophy at the Cathollo
Ifnlvcrslty, was consecrated Bishop of
Buffalo at the Franciscan Monastery
yesterday. The consecration was per
formed by Cardinal Gibbons. The Rights
Rev. Nelson H. Baker, administrator of
the diocese of Buffalo, ncslBted in the
consecration, and fifty priests from the
Buffalo diocese wero among tho several
hundred clergjm.cn present.
Bishop Thomas Snaran, of the path
olio University, who preached 'ther con
secration sermon, spokb or uio-rcut
responsibility of the Church at this time
Hon ot Christianity.
Atlnnllc City, .March 31-AUantlc
Cltv needs a ateamshlp line with boats
running to Philadelphia and New York,
It must get It, and get It quickly, on
abandon all hope ot becoming a port for
many years to come.
That is the warning former Senator
Edward A. Wilson, chairman of the
harbor and waterways committed of the
Chamber of Commerce, is dinning Into
the earn of resort officials, business men
and hotel owners.
After ears of agitation and innu
merable discouragements, boosters suc
ceeded in their campaign to hae United
States engineers dredge a channel lwelo
feet deep and 300 feet wide, at a cost of
$400,000 Atlantic City thus achieved
the aim of a quarter of a century of ef
fort. It has a deep-water channel but
no commerce to use It. Ex-Senator Wfl
son pnyis this Is because the city has not
kept its Implied contract with the go-
ernment to create a ship basin and
wharfage. A site for both has been pur-
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matter now pending between this Company and
certain of its public telephone agents that the fol
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For some years this Company has had in effect a
standard schedule of commissions paid to public
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