Sid. 4.
THE SWEDISH PRESS.
Torsdagen den 18 dec. 1941
DE RÖDA HUVUDENA
Av Adolf Johansson
Men han kunde inte sova, fast han kände sig trött, mycket trött. Av och an kastade han sig på bädden. Det var nagot som gnavde och oroade, så snart han blivit ensam. Som en mara hade det kommit över honom, han fick inte frid för det, och ju längre natten led, dess mera pinade det honom. Det var en dröm han drömt, en otäck dröm
som han måste erinra sig, nan han kunde bli fri från Och han sökte och sökte gruvande ångesten, medan
in-den. den han
stirrade ut i mörkret, som omgav honom.
Med ens tyckte han sig se och förstå. Han löpte undan för något, hetsad och flämtande. Bakom honom vältrade en mörk lavin av människor ur skogen. Det var ångesten som drev honom, skräcken som förföljde. Och han såg, hur själva marken liksom förbrändes och blev svart som uppvräkt jord varhelst den skaran drog fram. Han knöt händerna mot den, men fly måste han, fly, fly! Berg förintades under den svarta stormfloden, träd vräktes omkull. Det var Forsfallsskogen som ödelädes — Forsfallsskogen som han älskade! Han grät och knäppte händerna i förtvivlan. Och alla vildmarkens djur som flydde vid hans sida gräto och klagade som han.
Men stormfloden närmade sig. I ett nu bar han en människa i sina armar. Han såg ned på henne. Hennes huvud låg slappt mot hans axel, ansiktet var blekt och ögonen slutna.
— Sonja!
Det är döden, Immanuel! jagade ett minne genom hans hjärna.
Stormfloden hade rullat fram över henne. Hon var död.
Död! Död! ekade det inom honom. Feberfantiserna sjönko undan och han låg där vaken | och skälvande i frossbrvtningar.
Död! Död!
Ordet höll honom fången och han tuggade det om och om. Det fyllde mörkret omkring honom med sin stela förlamning.
En oredig hågkomst av timmarna därnere i skogvaktarbo-staden vaknade hos honom. Men händelseföljden var full av
de båda! De hatade tillsammans! t Sida vid sida skulle de anfalla, • när lavinen rullade emot dem! j Immanuel stod där darrande, och spejade genom fönstret.! Därute brann en lykta flämtan-' de och glåmigt och lyste över| en rad av fönster, svarta och speglade genom gölvåtten. Han såg på dem, medan han väntade och smekande strök kinden mot lodjurshalsen.
De gömde en hemlighet, de i där fönstren! Var det inte där- | inne som . . . som Sonja ... i fabriken . . .
Och plötsligt stod det klart för honom, att det var från sta-' den och fabrikerna förödelsen, j stormfloden utgick. Hän över skogen skulle den rulla, krossan-
tered Moscow, the Govem-or set fire to the city. Thousands of Russian sick and wounded perished in the flames; the loss was estimat-ed at several milliards of francs. Napoleon, hoping to strike at the heart or Rus-sia, found a heap of ruins. “It is incedible!” he explain-ed in a broken voice, his breast heaving with emotion. “It is a war of extermination an atrocious form of tactics that has no parallel in the annals of civilization. May the curse of centuries to come fall on the instigators of this act of vandalism.!”
operations. The weather is very fine; it is misty from early mern-ing until two oclock in the after-noon; then it becomes ^ery fine, and the sun is very warm; in the evening there is a fine moon untii midnight. Such weather is unpre-cedented.
(The retreat continued. it led across the battlefield of Borodino, strewn with broken guns, stained ■ uniforms and thousands of dead bodies, on which the wolves were feeding. Here the retreat became a rout.)
Viasma,. Nov. 1
You will see by the date of this I letter that 1 am nearing Poland ; in order to establish my vvinter
luckor, som han strävade fylla. Kring vissheten pm Sonja var borta rörde sig virvlande kaos av minnen intryck.
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Moscow, 18 Sept. ,	, __ ,	.	.
be I (JU leagues tewer between us. i
I have already written to you I —.	.	,	... -	.
1 he weather is splendid, 5 or 4 degrees below freezing poir.t, glor-
from Moscow. 1 had no concept
de och förintade, om han ej
satte en damm för dess fram- ion of this city, it boasted 500
fart.
Forts, i nästa nr.
John Green
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att att ett och
Stormfloden, ödeläggelsen, de störtande träden, djuren som flydde—alltsammans blev bitter verklighet genom Sonjas död.
Han lyssnäde i mörkret. Forsfallets dova åska mullrade i ett, stormen flåsade och flämtade som väldiga lungor.
Då visste han att den svarta lavinen gick fram därute. Två glimmande punkter fångade hans uppmärksamhet. — Å, det var lodjuret som kurade och siktade, berett till språng och hugg när ödeläggelsen gick över skogen! Hur de glänste av hat, de gula ögonen!
Han sprang upp, slog armarna om den ludna halsen på det uppstoppade lodjuret och kände med en underlig njutning, hur raggen kittlade honom på huden.
Han och lodjuret, de voro ett i
“1 too Went to Moscow’’
Continued from page 1 Victory depends on you; it will ensure us ample supplies, good quarters and a speedy home-com-ing. Acquit yourselves like the men you were at Austerlitz and Friedland, at Vitebsk and Smolensk, so that your children’s chil-dren may say of each of you: "He fought in the great battle under the walls of Moscow.”
The battle of borodino proved to be one of the bloodiest of the campaign. Napoleon’s losses were heavy eight generals killed, nine wounded.
Borodino, 8 Sept
1 am writing to you on the battlefield of Borodino. 1 de-fea ted the Russians yesterday, I their whole army 120,000 men I strong was there. The battle was ’ warmly contested, by 2 o’olock in the afternoon the victory was ours. 1 made several thousand prisoners and captured 60 guns. Their loss may be estimated at 30,000 men. I had many killed and wounded. Caulincourt. the governor of the pages, has been
1 killed. I personally was not at all exposed. My health is good the
weather
I feel ing got
i	_	.. ious sunshine. My health is per- ,
palaces as tine as the Llysee Nap- i ,	.. .	, .
1 fect, my aftairs in good shape... |
The remnants of the Grand Army were dragging along, in greater and greater confusion. With them trudged the Emperor, i stick in hand, wearing a fur-lined coat and astrakhan bonnet.)
7th Nov., I 1 a.m. i
You see I am drawing closer. i Tomorrow 1 shall be at Smolensk i or more than 400 leagues nearer ; Paris. The weather is beginning to show signs of impending snow.
(Napoleon reached Smolensk on November 9. It was a scene of desolation. Thousands of sick and wounded filled the city. Supplies were running out. And two enemy armies were hurrying up to cut off the retreating French army. It was necessary to move
oleon, several of them furnished | in the French taste with unbeliev- ’ able luxury, several Imperial pal- > aces, barracks and magnificient j hospitals. Everything has been destroyed, consumed by fire for the last 4 days. All the small ' houses of the bourgeois being of timber, burn like matchwood. It was the Governor and the Russians, infuriated at their defeat who set fire to this beautiful city. 200,000 worthy inhabinants are homeless, in misery and despair. There is enough left, however for the army, and the army has found much wealth of every kind, for in this disorder everything is given over to plunder. The loss to Rus- ; sia is immense and their trade will suffer badly in consequence. The wretches went so far as to re-move or destroy the pumps. My cold is at an end, my health
express messengers. The weather
quickly before the last road to
safety was closed. On the 14th, is Very Cold’ my h*alth 13 Very
is
good.
is somewhat cold.
Mosaisk, 9 Sept. I very chilly through hav- ; caught in the rain at 2 i
o clock in the morning whilst visit- * ing our outposts, but I hope to be ;
Two days later the fierceness of the fire made it impossible for Napoleon to remain at the Kremlin. He went to the Castle of Petrowsky at Desna
Desna 20 Sept.
I am on my way to take up my winter quarters. The weather is splendid, but it cannot last. Moscow being burned to the ground and not being a military position with regard to my ulterior design. I shall have it abandoned. 1 shall withdraw the garrison 1 left there. My health is good, my affairs are going well.
The same day, howevev, when the fire had died down Napoleon re tu med to the Kremlin.	,
Moscow, 23 Sept.
We have shot so many of the
. the Emperor left Smolensk. The situation was getting worse. but i he said nothing about it in his let-. ters.)
Proclamation to the Grand Army,
Orcha, Nov. 19.
A great many of you have de-serted your colours and proceed alone, thus betraying their duty, the honour and safety of the Army . Such disorders must come to an end . . . Offenders will be
put under arrest and summarily.
Orcha, The Cossacks have
punished
Nov. 20. swooped
good.
(The tattered remnants of Napoleon s army plodded on, con-tinually harrassed by Cossacks. A special squadron had been formed, consisting of four companies mounted on the last surviving horses; its captains were Generals, its non-commissioned officers, Col
as 1 would have wished. Yet af-fairs are not going badly just now. The weather is bitterly cold.
(On the same day, Napoleon called the chief of the Army and handed over the supreme com-mand to the King of Naples, Murat. He himself vanished dur-ing the night, travelling incognito by way of Vilma, Warsaw, Dresden, Leipzig and Mainz, to Paris
onels. This bodyguard.)
i am much anxiety you
was the Emperors
Smorgony, 5 Dec. distressed at all the are going through
where he 1 8, after months.)
arrived on December an absence of seven
rid of this by tomorow. Besides incendiaries that they have ceased my health is very good.	; One quarter of the city remains.
Tarchi, 13 Sept. the (other) three-quarters The weather must now be good burned down.
in Paris: here. after a spell of I (The next day Napoleon cold weather, it has become mild- an envoy to St. Petersburg
are
sent
with
down upon our Communications I am in good health and drawing nearer to you. In a few day s time. Communications will be op-ened up . . . Pass oh the news to the Queen of Naples and the Vice Reine. Show my letter to the Ar-chancellor.
(The French army was hem-med in on the marshy banks of the Beresina. The farther bank was held by Admiral Tchitchag-off; the French flank was threat-
which will last another fortnight, at least. My health, however, has never been better. You will have seen in the Army Orders that things have not gone as well
St. Helena, 1815
1 had gone to fight men in arms, not angry Nature. I de-feated their armies. But 1 was un-able to conquer fire, frost, numb-ness and death. Fate was strong- • er than 1.
My cold is drawing to an end an offer of peace. He was grow-I am 6 leagues from Moscow. 1 ing homesick for France. But the
When Napoleon’s army en-
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Czar gave no reply. On October 5th another letter was sent to the Czar. and Napoleon's last in-structions to his plenipotentiary were: “I want peace; I must have peace! I absolutely insist on it. Let it be honorable---that is all!" But the Russians would have nothing to do with peace proposals. Marshall Kutusoff began to manoeu-vre for position. He established himself in the rear of the French Army, was able to get supplies and new recruits from the Southern provinces, and threaten the French lines of communication. Napoleon was in doubt what to do. Any sort of offensive against St. Petersburg was out of the question. He decided to return to Smolensk. and the evacuation of the sick and wounded to that town began on October I 5th. His army of I 50,000 men with 50,-000 horses began to leave Moscow in a steady stream.
Florn Koie, 22 Oct.
. I have left Moscow after blow-ing up the Kremlin. It would have taken 20.000 men to remain in possession of the city, destroyed as it is; it interfered with my
ened by a second Russian marching down from the along the left bank of the Behind was a third Russian
army north river.
army.
The only way of escape lay across the one bridge at Borisov. The Russian Grenadiers burned down the bridge but the remnants of Napoleons army were able to cross the river at a ford two leagues away. On the night of November 27th Napoleon slept in a hut at Zaniwski, and early the
next ed a
morning the Russians launch double attack.
Zemlin, 28 Nov.
1 know that 15 couriers are awaiting me at a distance of three day‘s march. I shall thus find I 5 of your letters there. 1 am much worried at thinking of your sor-row it will give you to be so many days without hearing from me, but 1 know on extraordinary oc-casions I must rely on your cour-age and strength of character. My
health is perfect, the weather bad and cold.
lllia, I
The 20 couriers who are
very
Dec. mis-
sing will. 1 hope, reach me tomor-row, when 1 shall have news of you, which 1 very much long to receive. 1 have written to you by
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