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THE SUNDAY OREGON I AN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 21, 1919.
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ADVENTURES IN SIBERIAN EXPEDITION ARE
RELATED BY ARMY MAN BACK IN PORTLAND
Corporal Jack Burstein, of Russian Birth, Finds Knowledge of Language Open Sesame Into Hearts and
Homes of People Strange Customs Not Unlike Those Here After AIL
where. Every three days we used drifted in his direction and the
to do our 24 hours' guard along the fisherman became erased with fear,
railroad. A big fire at night was Russians by the thousands came to
kept going so we could warm our- headquarters, according to Burstein.
selves from time to time. ; arid begged for permission to Join
i tne American army. Anytning aone
! by the United States seems to meet
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Railroads and bridgres had been de- I 9BCbHHBrHP I
stroyed, no instead of waiting the I WBE&Kt I
five or six days that would have been I
Wolvr' Howl Hrnrd.
"From the first we noticed queer
sounds out in the snow-covered coun
try not very far from our posts.
These sounds came from a thick
1 woods and we didn't have to be ex
1 perienced hunters to discover they
were the cries of Siberian wolves,
which attack ' the poor peasants'
chickens and often their cattle. We
had to get accustomed to these night
friends.
"To our surprise we found out that
the Russian michka. or boars, were
only a couple of miles from our
camps. One day a sijuau 01 us sol
diers decided to declare war on the
with popular approval In Siberia.
The American Printing association
work In bending out literature about
this country was highly successful.
Pvn Aniorlr-nn miwla xfarn n m
and Charlie Chaplin seems a fav-1
orlte. American goods are much I
more popular than the Japanese,
oven thouKh that country undersells
on its manufactured products.
Burstein took part in a number of
minor skirmishes and saw much of
the bolsheviki. but he says the army
in Siberia didn't exactly earn their
bars by work at the front, rather for
fighting the cold winters. Up to
michkas and early in the morning set f three weeks before sailing for this
out with fixed bayonets. It required country he was engaged In expedl-
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NOT burdened with the usual col
lection of German helmets and
gas masks, pieces ofthe Rheims
cathedral and wrecked airplanes, has
Corporal Jack Burstein come back
from the war, for battles weren't
fought with gas masks and air
planes in Siberia. The youth has
his souvenirs, it is true, but they
consist mainly in docun ents, reports
of curious Cossack meetings he ven
tured into, pleas of Russian refugee
women and other reminders of the
work of the American army in the
frozen land of exiles. ,
Burstein is by birth a Russian,
and his brothers and sisters still live
in Kieff. but several years ago he
sought a new world and landed in
Chicago, spending six years In this
country, and finally enlisting in the
American expeditionary forces that
were sent to Siberia. Here he passed
nearly two years in the intelligence
section of the 27th Infantry. On
October 7 he sailed for this country
and has been in Portland since No
vember 1.
Because of his intimate knowledge
of life and customs of the Russians
and his ability to speak their lan
guage, Burstein was detailed to han
dle many delicate situations involv
ing the people of the occupied land !
and. in his capacity as interpreter.
worked in close conjunction with the
regimental staff.
Human Contact 1'ound.
He found the point of human con
tact in these rough peasants, and
became familiar with their curious
customs, that, after all, aren't so far
different from the modern ones of
this country. For instance, there is
the old "stall" about the office boy's
sick grandmother that comes in
handy on the day of the big league
championship game. Burstein, at
considerable risk of his safety, hiked
over to a meeting of the Krug or
Cossack council, which was holding a
three-day session.
The delegates were forced to at
tend, but some of them didn't care
to. The chairman early during the
first meeting arose and read a tele
gram from one of those who were
absent. It stated that his mother
was dying and that he should return
home at once. A delegate protested '
and declared that there should be j
an investigation because of the large !
number of similar telegrams received,
which began to look suspicious. The !
speaker said that if this was not
done there would be no one left at I
the Krug.
The American soldier has the repu- j
tation for getting by anywhere, but I
Burstein was quick to notice that I
when the average youth bumped Into
the Russian language he was just
about stumped.
"Some of the fellows," he said,
"would try pictures and gestures,
but it was generally rather hard on
the poor rookie who studied French
all the previous year in the states
and found no place to use his 'parley
voo Fransay" in Siberia. The lingo
was the big problem. My bunkle
ordered pancakes In a restaurant one
day and after the usual wait of half
an hour or so the waiter ambled in
with eight fried eggs.
Girls Like Americans.
"Despite all the linguistic diffi
culties of the land," he continued,
"tho Americans have managed to
break in with the bareechnas (Rus
sian for girls) pretty strong. They
have introduced chewing gum Into
high society, and a package of the
flavor-lasting variety will take a
Yank a long way into the hearts and
pantries of the natives. The first
rule of etiquette is always to place
a package of gum in your blouse be
fore making a social call and if she
is an exceptionally nice bareechna
and you want to call again, make it
two. with some chocolate and Fa
timas for mamma and papa."
Russians, the soldier said, seem to
be always on the move from place to
place, many of them traveling to
save paying rent. Refugees, traders,
agents and soldiers, each one carry
ing all his baggage, a loaf of bread,
some sausage and the eternal tea not
without which no Russian travels, j
tnrong the boxcars that serve as
trains. Often one of these little
open coaches has as many as 100
passengers packed Inside. At each
station the railroad company fur
nishes boiling water for tea-makine
purposes, and the instant a train
stops there is a wild dash for the
hot-water house and the wood pile,
for passengers are obliged to keep
fires going in the cars they ride in.
The 27th was not long in getting
a taste of Siberian life, for two
hours after the boat arrived in
Vladivostok the men were told to
disembark Immediately and move for
ward to the firing line, which was
supposed to be only a few hours' hike
out of Vladivostok. However, before
this point had been reached the
Czechs and Japs had caused the bol
sheviki to retire in great disorder.
After a rest the Americans were sent
to the Ussury river, about 125
to the west.
Railroads and bridges had been de
stroyed, so instead of waiting the
five or six days that would have been
required to repair the line, the Yanks
began to cover the distance on foot.
Special orders were issued that no
man should take water from the
rivers or purchase supplies from the
Russians, as practically everything
had been poisoned.
Hundreds of bodies of dead men
and horses covered the ground and
this added to the discomfort of
marching In rainy weather. The
ground in many places was so water
soaked that the men walked in mud
up to their knees. It was not un
usual, said Burstein, to come upon
one of the stocky, four-footed sol
diers, stuck in the mud. crying for
help. It was on this same soft sub
stance that tents were pitched and
the soldiers slept.
At the Ussury the men were packed
in boxcars, and sent to the city of
Habarovsk, where all barracks not
occupied by the Japanese and Cos
sacks were taken over. These were
not occupied until they had under
gone a thorough disinfecting and
scrubbing. Here the men prepared
to meet the long, severe Siberian
winter.
The company to which Burstein be
longed was sent out to guard the
railroad at St. Tichonkaya. a town
of 70 inhabitants. This was the first
the peasants had seen of the Amer
icans and they were Inclined to look
upon them as enemies. Boxcars that
carried the soldiers were run in on
a siding. A heavy snow had fallen
and the red-hot Iron stove in each
car had little effect in dispelling the
biting cold.
First .ileal Eventful.
unow on tne nrst aay was an
event to be remembered." the so
I dier related. "When the bugle sound
ed the entire population, young and
old, came on the rnu and stood off
at a safe distance to watch the men
line up with their mess kits. The
youngsters were a little more courag
eous tnan tneir parents and grad
ually moved in on the feasters, one
boy saying what in your lancuate
j would be, 'American is good.' This
j brought a reward and the town was
; nicely fed up. After that the town
took us in.
j "We had a doctor with us, and the
people surely kept him busy. In re
! turn we all were invited to visit the
I nouses. I went to a home I had
j been asked to one day and discovered
that their idea of houses is dif
ferent than ours. Inside the familv
a cow, chickens, a pig, and other
things like that. The building was
only one large room and a kitchen.
but it housed three families.
"The village was on the verge of
starvation, but out of their hospi
tality the people would have given
their last piece of bread. As in many
other small towns, they had been so
long out of sugar they have forgotten
its taste.
"Tichonkaya was very lonely and
we did not have the stationery, mag
azines and newspapers we had else-
half a day to make the hill where
they were supposed to be, as we had
to make our own bridges on which
to cross the numerous small rivers
and were forced to walk in swamp
land sometimes up to our knees.
"We took with us a Russian boy
as a guide and, as he was an ex
perienced hunter, he soon spotted the
tracks of a wild pig. which we event
ually captured. It was a happy party
that tramped back with the big tro
phy. We all felt so jubilant we for
got our hunger and the trials of the
long hike."
During his stay in Siberia Burstein
was at one time or another stationed
at Irkutsk. Verkhne-Udinsk. Mysso
vay. Novo-Nlck and Blagovestshensk.
While at Irkutsk he visited the big
American hospital there, where 600
patients were housed. The Institution
had a staff of 10 nurses and two
doctors. The greater number of pa
tlents,were Russians, wounded in the
left arm, where they had shot them
selves to avoid military duty.
Cossack Atrocities Seen.
The veteran has a number of pic
tures of peasants, persecuted and
killed by order of Kalmykoff. com
mander of the Cossacks. Atrocities
were committed daily and It was up
to the Americans to prevent as many
of these as possible. Kalmykoff,
who was an ally, had a practice of
taking a few men every few nights
from prison and having them mur
dered. The next day their wives
would appeal to Burstein. as their
Interpreter, to secure assistance from
the soldiers. Guards were posted at
the prison, but even then the wily
Cossack found means to get his vic
tims out.
His own men were not fond of their
leader, and one night 600 of them
armed with machine guns and field
pieces approached American head
quarters. About 2 o'clock in the
morning they asked for the colonel
and explained to him that they were
unwilling to stand for any more mis
treatment from Kalmykoff and his
officers, whom they said beat them
and took the money intended for
their clothing.
As Kalmykoff was an ally, the
colonel hesitated at first and ordered
the men to go back, but upon heir
further pleading had them put In a
building, disarmed and provided with
hot coffee. The following mornlnf
the, Russian propaganda papers came
out with ojitlcisms and announcing
that the American colonel was pro
tecting traitors.
Men Refuse to Return.
The Cossack leader demanded that
the men be returned, but when the
colonel asked his prisoners' if they
wished to go back, they said they
would rather not, as they wished to
go and work their land. The Amer
icans kept them, provided them with
much-needed socks and baths and
sent them out under a strong guard
until ready to go home. Some of
the Cossacks were so grateful they
fell on their knees and thanked the
officer.
Burstein said he was In one town
when the Cossacks came in and took
a group of lti musicians who played
In a cafe. They were led out on a
balcony in a pleasure park where the
people had gathered and were shot
before the crowd. The bodies fell
from the balcony and Into the river
below, where a fisherman was at
work with his nets. The dead men
tlons pursuing bolsheviks.
College Experts Tell How
to Save Frozen Fruits.
Gradual Thawing: or Rerunning Is
Advised by O. A. C. Kxperi-aenters.
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REGON AGRICULTURAL, COL,
LEGE, Corvaills, Dec 20. Spe
clai.) Frozen fruit and vegetables
need not cause housewives undue
worry. If the proper precautions are
taken. It was learned from instructors
in home economics who have been ex
perimenting on some frozen products
this week. Several different kinds of
fruit and vegetables had been frozen
during the cold weather while college
buildings had been without heat, and
the experiments covered all of them.
The suggestions which the Instruct
ors give for taking care of frosen
foodstuffs are as follows:
cere for all frozen materials as
soon as possible.
"Place In heat where food will thaw
only gradually.
xi container is DroKen. fruit or
vegetables should be eaten Immedi
ately if possible, or resterlllzed and
recanned. Additional sugar or syrup
is not necessary.
Recanned fruit may break down
somewhat but may later be made into
jam.
"Adding sugar and syrup when re
canning is not necessary."
The experiments were carried out
on peaches, cherries, apples, pears and
tomatoes. Sugar added decreased the
natural flavor. Maltose, a syrup rec-
ummenaea oy tne government as a
substitute for sugar, was used in some
or the recanned products with the re
suit that the fruit flavor was more
nearly normal than with sugar.
Canned products which were thawed
gradually did not lose their shapes
unless iney nan stood frozen for
long time.
Jam Jar Labels Used as Money.
LONDON, Dec. 20. Some British sol
aiers in r-aiestine used labels from
jars of jam as money In purchasing
kudus irom some or tne natives there
sbvb tne r"aii Mall Gazette. The
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Relief Corps to Install Officers.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Dee. 20.
(Special.) THe woman's relief corps
will install 190 officers January 5.
The officers-elect are: Mrs. Emma
Grlgsby, president: Mrs. Henrietta
Brook field senior vice-president: Mrs.
Flora Emmitt. junior vice-president;
Mrs. Emma Hamilton, treasurer; Mrs.
Hattle Garrett, chaplain : Mrs. Anna
Bean, conductress; Mrs. Cora Hlggin
son, guard. Mrs. Flora Emmitt Is
the delegate to the state convention
at Astoria next June.
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