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Show BUSS Blli FDR UJ.GHS So Says Salt Lake Navy Electrician Who Returns From Abroad. i Witnesses Execution of Bol-j slievist Spies in Petrograd. j Af'ter eighteen moiiihs in foreign waters, C. I'. Gail, chief electrician of he IT. S. 8. Parker, has returned to his liomo at 787 Third avenue. Mr. Ciail wpent several shore leave.- in different parts of northern Kussia, and iva.4 later attached to tho American Ameri-can food commission operating in the provinces of Ksthonia and Latavia, with headquarters at J.ibau. Tho 10111-ljinod 10111-ljinod population of tho threo places "was nearly 50,UUU. industry was dead and work of every kind at a standstill, stand-still, declared Mr. Gail, duo partly to Ihe nervous tension and uncertainty as to tho next controlling faction. Tho people, he stated, are very fond of tho Americans because the latter are feeding them. "Tu every store," said Mr. Gail, "one sees only Gernian-mudo Gernian-mudo yoods. But this is not tho fault of the Kussians themselves. Germain after her troops entered this section ot .Russia, smashed or carried av.ay all useful machinery, thus rendering a ro-oponing ro-oponing of industry impossible until new machinery is brought into Eussia. Common People Idle. "Tho better class of llussians want American goods and machinery becauso they think it superior to European. Ho that it-is clearly evident that tho greatest great-est field in the world is open to the enterprising American business man and manufacturer. "Tho common people are idle, but not of their own choosing. They are so sick of war that they go about soldiering sol-diering only when forced. "While in Petrograd I witnessed several sev-eral executions of .Bolshevist spies. One was a woman. They were not blindfolded, blind-folded, but stood facing the wall, and were shot from the rear, tho bullets entering tho head, at tho base of the brain.'' Mr. Gail stated that for reasons rea-sons unknown to him many of these dead bodies are stacked in piles or lined up in au even row. With pans of the clothing removed to expose the wounds, tho bodies are photographed and tho pictures aro sold. During the German occupation of Ijibau, Mr. Gail said, moro than 1500 German soldiers married Russian' girls. After tho armistice the.y refused to return to Germany and so formed an army of their own, and placing themselves them-selves at the disposal of the waning Tiomanoff chiefs, became the only military mili-tary power in tho town. When tho Bolshevik forces entered Libau the the Romanoff commission, in charge of the town and the German troops, took refugo on a ship which lay in the harbor and anchored a few miles from the coast, from which place thev issued orders to anvbody who would take them. Eventually the Red army evacuated evacu-ated the city and the commission returned re-turned and assumed power. Moral Standard High. If anyone becomes ill, according to the observations of Mr. Gail, he either gets well or dies without medical attention. at-tention. Conditions are unhealthful and medical treatment of any kind is unavailable. un-available. The poorer classes, he says, are all very ignorant, and every effort is made to keep them that way. The scattered scat-tered families of the former nobility constitute the only educated class. They are kept in a nervous stale constantly, wondering what the next dav will bring. Mr. Gail praised the morality of the people there, both rich and poor. He savs it is far above that of both France and England, the Jewish girls of this Bection being deeply religious. The destroyer Parker, to which Mr. Gail was assigned, is the only American ship whose officers and men can legally wear three foreign service stripes. The Parker was on various duties from the Capo of Good Hopo to Archangel, leaving leav-ing the latter place in July, homeward bound. |