Show LETTS RESCUE MANY FRO FROM Yeomanry Captures City in Time to Prevent Slaughter Correspondence Associated Press Pre STOCKHOLM June 17 The The lives of several thousand persons of the middle classes at Riga were saved by the Letts when they surprised the and captured that city on May 19 These people had been held as hostages bythe by bythe bythe the Bolshevik The suddenness with which the yeomanry captured th the a city in a half hour half hour rush prevented tho the Bolshevik from murdering them Only in one large central prison outside th the tho e city where the Letts Letta were ten minutes minute s late did the have time t to 10 o kill more than educated persons This Information has bas been brought here hereby hereby hereby by Hans Fraenckel who has returned t to o Stockholm from an adventurous trip t tRiga to Riga In a motorboat to rescue some o ohis of f his friends Fraenckel saved thirteen o persons and br brought them with him t to Stockholm lie He said the situation at Riga was wa s worse than an any de description could pic plc ture tune Famine had paralyzed everything g and find the inhabitants looked like shadows Traces of the terror tenor that had converted Riga IUga into a a. real Inferno were vere to be see seen n everywhere Corpes were lying In the hi e streets The people were most pessimistic an anthe and d the future looked hopeless for their pillaged pillaged pil pil- city They doubted if It it could be beheld beheld b e held against the Bolshevik unless th the S I allied powers gave ave military support |