KIND FOR JUST ONE DAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14593, 1 May 1918, Page 8

KIND FOR JUST ONE DAY.

— — M 'I THEN GERMANS BECAME JUST ;

ORDINARY HUNS. ;

MOSCOW, March 25. j A Russian woman doctor,, who has returned to Moscow from Dvinsk, tells the conditions there after the Germans entered the city. Municipal officials and persons of all classes, tired of all disorder and confusion, welcomed the Germans, gave flowers to the officers and paid thorn every courtesy. The Germans were kind the. first day, but the second day they commandeered all food supplies, reduced food allowances to Russians by one-half, and shipped supplies oiit of the city. The mayor of Dvinsk offered the- German commander bread and salt, according to the Russian custom m greeting visitors,- but this feeling was soon changed toward the invaders, who became harsh and eii'forced compulsory labor for 12 hours a day to skilled workmen, the highest wages paid being three roubles per day. Russian officers were ordered by, the Germans to restore their shoulder straps and then were made prisoners. The daily food allowance now is a small piece of bread and a quarter of apound of pork. Clerks are paid from '40 to 80 roubles monthly and physicians 60 roubles for the same time. Mohilev, Reval. Narva and Kiev, as well .as other occupied . cities, report Germans com- j mandcering and shipping out food sup- ( plies.