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Hereward Thimbleby Price
Boche and Bolshevik
Experiences of an Englishman in the German Army and in Russian Prisons
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338084828
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PREFACE
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The present book reprints a series of articles which appeared in the China Illustrated Weekly from November, 1918, to February, 1919. This accounts for certain allusions, which I have not altered, as they are unimportant and fill no large space in the narrative. My thanks are due to H. G. Woodhead, Esq., the Editor of the China Illustrated Weekly, for the help he has given me in publishing these articles.
H. T. PRICE.
Tientsin.
BOCHE AND BOLSHEVIK
CHAPTER I
MANUFACTURING PUBLIC OPINION
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When war broke out I was picking late cherries in our garden near the Rhine. A boy came by with the news on a flysheet. I ran and bought a paper and then told our gardener’s wife. Her face went pinched and white, for she was the mother of many sons; but she only pulled her shawl a little tighter round her shoulders, and then, with the immemorial stoicism of the peasant, turned to her work again. She remembered the days of “seventy,” when, as she often used to tell us, the regimental bands had to play their loudest in order to drown the sobs of the women as the troops marched to the station.