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I am very busy rehearsing and I work very hard all the time, the ballroom work is very hard for me till I get used to it. I left Buenos Aires when that terrible strike was on not a store was open and they were shooting in the street no one dared to leave their homes, still I was rung around to cancel rehearsals etc. getting ready to leave I was so afraid troops and policenen every w[h]ere with loaded guns and machine guns in the doorway of the Police Stations. The second day allready there was hardly a piece of bread in Buenos Aires, and not a single resturant open those that lived in Boarding houses got a bit to eat but those that ate in resturant had to go without oh it was terrible. Thursday at 12 it started and up till Sunday mornig 1500 people had been killed and 5000 wounded in the streets, if a motor car came along they would just grab it and smash it to pieces. We had to leave Sunday morning so I made arrangements to have my trunks sent on to Rio later as it was impossible to have them taken to the ship, But by greatest luck the strike was called to a halt Sunday mornig and a few carts dared out at a terrible risk so they took some of our baggage and drove to the station and we had to walk it nearly 22 bocks or more through the worst of the strike quaters all the windows and streets smached, the garbige had not been colected for theee days and was thrown all over the streets and the odors were fearfull, and shops and houses closed sometimes we passed a saloon and if the door opened we saw behind it the saloon full of drunken men and we guessed that the strike was not finished yet. Well when we got to the Station and Saw that our small luggage had arrived, Piatov took 4 men with loaded revolvers and rushed back for my trunks

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