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Show oo RUSS CHILDREN BEG FOR FOOD Captain of U. S. Relief Vessel Brings Tale of Horrors BALTIMORE; M.I., April 8. A tale I of famine, brutalif and horror, was relate, i i,y Captain M. U Hart of the tearnship In epwajer. which returned Ito this port Friday from Odessa. Russia. Rus-sia. The Deepwater Was one of the iRusslnn relief steamers which left here I in January I Toward the end of February the I epwnter r.-ached QdSSSS and was met at the pier by thousands of children chil-dren Virtually unclothed and showing show-ing unmistkable evidences of starvs-l tion. they swarmed about, ready to beg, for food as soon as unloading of th'" Igraln was begun, but onl to be driven! away bv Russian soldiery. Captain Hart .-aid those who resisted were buy-oneited. buy-oneited. I It took nine days for 6i, half-starved Stevedores to unload the ship by hand , I Two of their number were killed In' quarrels among themselves. ''.iptaln Hart refused to allow any' of his crew to go ashore, but one night ! two men slipped away Thej pent a I night of horror before they were able to work their way back on board, according ac-cording to the stories they related on 1hir return. They told of seeing men stood up against a wall to be shot by a firing squad, Of seeing men women j and children drop in he streets, ex-' hausted from hunger, and as a climax, to their night of adventure, they niv three trainloads of dead being shipped out of tho once flourishing city to bo thrown into a hole in the outskirts. Captain. Hart said that the Russian I people'.-! spirit bad b( n 1 rOken by I h harsh ana brutal methods of the ltua-1 Man soldiery, and tl.o- wero offering virtually no resistance to the terrible! treatment they receive The peoph b 1 lleve tht the I V W, )uls conquered! the United Stales and that thev are1 sending the grain over to them. Thej also believe that bolshevlsm has gripped tht whole world, and that resistance re-sistance is useless. |