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There l i a I. uieii i on iii the i in itn of un y a 11 ithe vai l e (1f ihe patu i "nrlish iirms lrltº'(di ll n l~r beinplishling:, ill' m ilitary ' i- roni" ti hi f 1 l oi fif Ix lt. I IinfI -f fijn t Ba nll x of Ii ru ne ( I ii tn I pon lit'e \iolory o En gli I;I lilrtinnowi al I1 ' peace cuin foe ncll e ill of I''nillt' . W oof rr nt \ \ W iI -orI. I hirfi iilly irfilepr e nlin2 the t iteri 'rlnrles, mite -lill fieciniled a dl loo1k f id ilpf ni ill -mire iarti'if s a the dilr inaii t fiigire ill -h-iIiijniiinr xI1 Ii firflieitr ill riealifx i but ii able uian xxif fll g ioil] I 'in lii I L.ixIi (en rge. tliro-n[iiillv. e'. frlieifinilf . lii ei.nt ii il i S givxrn fue li noi r if rarninkin tie li or f e hil. fi t revie ex II I'ie record r If fri rl/' disrleirs If ii 1:1 in f lijh I il I n i }i . irue t i I nrif if fliIi ha- suii cei e ifii ii -II I it iinill i co r-i ie .'. event' l- t i ersiille-. loaf i'rii nf. iievel rn If-s irfrf iIIg. tifnlry - rfr'fienieiitl iifirIp i Ii uiiiIni fil ii'- irrer nI bf uer 4iui nitl ie is. \viIf ex hiii feri spluere of i ' lu 1 c e I1 ndu dill nI,\\ market- fit hlex r lnn - tactured trodr~uel . -Eifrn land. i ei Int Eni ioII ii I i . i I ngii\ii i I iml ii fi the race r einmmercid ui n iremnieiv I oren tie xxiir. has taken fi I newi sense. ru life with the help. nil tin -Ii the cr nivance. If Ifuth iresidefti f n il fn inned litfef . .1t (nti im , durltingi t II the pnre o l ' pro eem1lin s 41f lilt fintrnr tuiin l r unk f in nfei i enn e ll if \i -ailles. ffui pre-idfent of' ti Uinitedr Siltur- iv\\ refllted I fir ii Iavin Ill neiogniiz'.inirg the oivnel republic iilf Itissis ue foir n Ii r in t rir crni Irx f1rfir. Whefher he really \xnv. 4r vfeffrlhn f it wxxr rrrely another :,(i r offered iii the pen plc by the f eixcf enfvriic ii while imipoii g 1 (iipitalistic fieiice. mtruftern- 14t. The I'l-( riinaiiis that ife iresent jirlix of fhe l t llie-. tfi fe flel bi Eu frrruf. is (iin x which lri vecnits the United fae-if hom secr ingn i r r itifell flte oe in manirrufactureiiiief Irorrtli ii n rl- ui\ interials which Hluissia eeds anul which xxiii if he 41 ri gret i Ihl nei fit ItI the inif stries ii this c(ulintriy. \We sad' present fioficx anil isedly. ileirir-e. despire the inn, -isteiit reports to the rontrr riy in ifti c pilf ist f i esi of thisf inirrlix.'y i the borlsheviki frr\\"er ii nirif \\ianinii in tii- ini: it is still the only power recignizei fy the pe- t m\ wrkers. indl there isnio danger that tffer, will ever refturn Ii ffne Ahf svsteiri. The policy if fIre allies fixx brfI soilif Itf ssin \ni ill chani i. 11(11 heierise of Al ice. ut iilif neei-silx. and no rile inmulfefrsiniifrs lhis beher thlm lfrrrii d M iei riiie. The Iii( when xf is i hfirirge will take plare will f e di igi ale. i I i the f If i lis spikesrniuri and in fihe interim f"iifnhiilf will finix secured Iiif'r herself a large portion ii f the inude ill mriuninirfniut ireii prfincin s. which i uii i iie this ii intrirjlit if it were init fIr he "a mn" alliuile f1inesi dent W\"ilson has tt'lltl1041 towatrd every En ls poposial. Leuving ii ide emtirely. f ir the irnui enf. fll theories is fIl ihe hfst Iriirn of goverinmnni nfl dispfle ti In whether the flus siln aln ifnner natiniialitit' f I- fuifi 1h'e allflwed fi t I hoi e Ismf themselves their urxwi sxfleum s. and iiffiking if the uirt letr friie lx fruit ir ntunleriiilistif i IliinId if l. the rei.rilfs i fu n I nl daIe i and also in the iinr ing monthsI wifi f' lit ill idiploimacy ii erfli iiiruti flhiji r I.:m triuim phed. i In d if pililistic if n ' l lul wf ill 1e enjoying the lion'- share fii f trade \\ili fie sfr viet republic of Imiusiia. iriix freel 4fi ered If i America. In this runne lfiuºi we reprint hilrf w an illuminating rificle froim liTihe \jWisciin-in Newr . quiiting u i\ineriian rinsulting caigineer: The \ soyit t \ t 4\eit l ie l it-i I it 1i01'ti (I Wl t iIt tittltip it50. 000.001 epl.is asking fill Irutle re'liliions wvith thet United tilaes. and i, \\illingi and reaulm Il pay cash andn give COMPOswionts. Th'lis assertion is mnade Iby L. IL. littll4ln1nff euons lling onI gineer in the la~jeslic lnsihling. \-ilhl hei returned f~rom New 'i lk. where hle \va, ill tconflerence" with II Ii 'enta tives it' the ,iviel-. IRtussia doe, I neel fall; she c l leed hs.self. said Mte. lIihrus ii. Wii hi l . he is i' nef d ti is tll finished prodi l.t shoei th t lu ing. Iniw lors. ,hoi t ipi tnxtit and trucks. ets r iadievr are needed for ts ltivit' ig the ihult t. and mthe Ir tri ulcks flt trlikt l iii liu g the au- olt -trou . the ii -ftr ttl the i Ui ttil the H tillroiad t are e eten th-d. iftr tusportalian is tis utiuteti-' l ftu lt ilt every colt rit. and especially il Itussia. where distances are grean. t he oi ppi siitt0 tlion 1 lls a-it ll liked Ili t 'Ilts ia. as fotmil the ren laiti 10i the hli regimef which weks the reiuri Ilti ll'o anottltthe ('Lll' I w ish 111.1 \2 ri n m nu a t i ll gei the tuth ill' the itiuajot . . u New ttrlf newspaper printed o n article the l i till vi-tu 1iii it guoih g are uarreae ifrmli luteli. while the guu ils of the other t tl ith' are ifvored. This will result in all C(' I tiei ii \\e tii 'i 1 e ke o ldtio ni its of the Russian siiitoattien ant he isian market. "'Thle ,u\ iet gover'I'lanenlt is uno uuly ready to pa?. cash mnLet necepible Ill the .\oneries. h\e uinee mathe lIns it also is willing and ,end back here prtodlius which we need. such a-; hide,. flax. hemlp. furs, Ilnmber. gratin. Illatinumt. metal; n mul suiernis. "We Unti\e lmadelt mlliske t regardinn g linesini ill Iit Ilil. bult let its not mnake tite ill the mo111, fatal mni lin es regard ing the RHus-ion nlarket. If' we eleili (411( du iii extend int Russia the helpin. e ttis give. hat~ ft ta we expect her Iol exteLi her hand. her .arket? i utr delay will permit G;ermanly or ;ionic (he1. Bailin. I":nigian l she i. after lthe Russian maurket ---)l cel the smlallel' nations. which ever gels in and gives the Rulssian soviet hells. mill e1)1111l the Russian market fur mniu yeaors Ill coue. Fill if, to ht' shuft 1)1t1 i the 131s inn nliai~ket iwe ea nn t aff'Iort as a nlationt. "Russia needs hell s l ani he will get it. \o other' Il tion amoing the allies i, u well liked ill Russia. its huts. \\e are ill a position Ill help them and we should. I van secure from the ,ttiet representatives orders for W\is~onisilln aunt'uctnrer, amounuting fmint " 1.01T). 000O to $25Mb.000.000 if ourlt gtovernmnent \\ill give its all ex port license for shipnuenl of Aood A P'etrograd and allow us louise the cables for the transmlission of gold from Rus sia in payment for hie goods. "Let us not deceive our'selves. We need hie Russian market and need it badly for the -olvinig of our unemply- mi~ent problem. W e must give a jilb to every matt and woman who nteeds one. Let It, Fi after the Rju siant Union Stock Hodders in the Butte Daily Bulletin UNITED MINE WOIIKERS OF AMERICA-Locals: Sand Coulee, Stocket, Roundup. Lehigh, Klein, Washoe, lIed Lodge, Smith (Bear Creek). FEDERAL LABOR UN ON--Livingston. MACHINISTS UNION-- Great Falls. Butte, Livingston. MACHINISTS UNION Great Falls. Butte, Livingstwn, Stattle. CEREAL WORKERS- Breat Falls. TYPOGRAI'[iO'AL IUN ON -luntte. IILACSAilITHS. j::i :< Ruti', Miles City, Sealite, ICLEiiCiT IANS I'N10 Lii il ai ton, Doer Lodge, ilntle, Anaconda, Soattl:-. BAKERS' t'NION---C -:o Falls. SHOE WORNERS-- t- Falls. PLASJ'ERERS IN ON Great Falls. RAILWAY CAR REI'.\ HERS- Livingston, Miles City. MtSICIANS' UNION Hutti. BREWERY W'ORKEFIS' UNION- -Butte. HOD CARIlFRS UN ON-liatte and Bozeman. STREET ('AR MENS U'NION- -Butte. 1IARIERS' INION lutte. METAL MINE WORKERS' I'NION (independent) ---lutte. PRINTING PRESSMEN'S UN!ION-Butte. MAILERS UNION Butte. STEREOTYPERS AND ELECT'ROTYPERS' UNION--Butte. BRIDGE ANI) STRUCTURAL IRON \VORKERS-Butte. PIPEFITTERS' UNION-Butte. BROTHE tIOOt) BOILERMAKERS AND HELPERS-Butte and Livingston. STEAM AND OPERATING ENGINEERS-Great Falls. Bt TCH(RSH UNION-Great Falls. BAKERS' I'NION---Butte. INTERNATIONAL MOLDER'S UNION, LOCAL NO. 276-Butte. ILU NDRY WORKERS' UNION. NO. 25-Butte. 1 Li'M1>ERS' INION---Butte. Seattle. BROTIERHOOD RAILWAY CARMEN OF AMERICA, LOCAL -NO. 224 --Miles City. TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL-Miles City. 1H01) CARRIERS' UNION-Helena. BROTHERHOOD RAILWAY CARMEN OF AMERICA, COPPER LODGE NO. 430- nutte. BUTTE FOINDRY WORKERS' UNION-Butte. TAILORS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION-Butte. BOILERIMAKERS. SHlIP BUILDERS AND HELPERS OF AMERICA Tacoma, Seattll . Livingston. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BLACKSMITHS AND HELP ERS. LOCAL NO. 211-Seattle, Wash. WORKERS', SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' COUNCIL-Painters' Hall, Seattle. Wash. AND TIIOUSANIIS OF INDIVlDUAI.S TN BUTTE AND MONTANA BUILDINGi LA.-kO31E11S' UNION-Seattle. INTEIIN.\TIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BRIIIGE AND STRUCTURAL IRON WORKERS AND I'iLEDRIVERS' LOCAL NO. 86--Seattle. nline'k4t gild suppid ' ly Russia 1111 Ills f'ili-4hed( and 1111fi1 i-llc'( Ilrodulsl( thel salviol Ruslsionl governmen4 t needs. Let it II f I or l' Il that se -i t'l'"'el'\Vatii l is the law (Ii' itilt're ii11(1 it 1)\ ipit iii the 1i'est'r i'ati In (fill' ow'il peace lies in the givinug at, empltla\'iii('lllt to every aiaa ad wl imlelt p\-late s titi ea ly 11 it ih II' jheitl daily 1 riad. The lilus si11n marllket w ill /1ini5h 111 ,jfb." 1i I. ll iltraffI i ill ieg~olialiI n \withl a mI mbelh r Ilf Alli \\ilankll gild \\is("( nsinI iltII manufne lurer- re ;garl' in~g 11112( 11,0''' e Irs [ne hunte' iate dhipm n oli(I)1n-4 in. 11t' vIontonu - plates fil carl\' trill limi1 self' I I the In11(1 l lo the foam iel" e'a I'. KING COON EY SPEAKS. lii ltlie o linaril' we ('xllailll h e ilt"iei'l the Iieittliig, '4Ai si iiiss lit t ie 1ii(1i' Mi'. (1e . this is 111'" 141 (it'ist dhulh we devialte l >441 ('i !1th ('il r t iiii I i Ii IC' 'i1 i ivery I 4ler in Silver 1114'. 14441 ly illnr iho it ('l il 11.1 this lit ii li g 's issu le Id lii t sheel . 'Thel reauson? ( l 1t '114 41' five. \t14 nltltn iiie. I itler the heading, " tilt' ito' .\\ill s i ir gl i It ltle.( 1 l' p i t i t' 4 i 'l'l wiih oillet'Il t)t' i llel t' lii c1nlin issiolner, All. 01111)('. give, ('1) the first limle since his (i(ctit n his a it1tie. o 1nio those \hoe roles elected hint 11 Nihose itrvltlt he is technically l 11 11 A l1sed to he. is Ill int Mr. Ii tt I'l i as It l o li' h eneitils derived by the 'litlC it lfrotlit'lse orl er il'llor'ing It!! telep'holne f'ront the ('llt nissioner, qular~ter's. Lihl Hiller slu1ri read,: \ot 11 c lls (o s1nil(1 l't'' ttk wilhotli hti ing stie liotI '. ibli(II illtei'rulintIg wil th a 11t long conver1sationI aban11t thel 1n 'alllilr' ca l ioll tionl of hlis nleir thne I's 11i,' 1141. (11('ill'e( I: In lilli'""illu r (:1111 1('\. For 41 n e. \'1 l. 114 onl ne'i .Iittlii. Ithe intt'I le tll It 'p heihltl til ' his jl 11' 41 ml illt ellklllgV liii' li~'41111 I~'t- 1111lied i liel'('l 11eetig li l ill it' hliý real oIpiniw, (11 ithoae person1s \\1141 ulu l the ite11erily I1 adl dress him us 11, lunil'ters re!lulini to his (utlllt' . 11 is I11 he hoped the ".dour idiot, \\h fil \11ed 1'01 (;oo1ne\' will r''lemember the ill ciden( \%hell Ibel 1)1x1 election neeur1s. If hIbuse whlo are kn1ocking" _1overnmle1t 1wnIershlip 111 the ,'ailroauls ol ft(,' _roululd 1111 thet rate, hav\e increased IIon (' layi o fl' 1111 m i ll of s ar't f ingif I omt 1' 111 11 I'reiriht 11(les wVills ill l'v'ni1'4 ill prices folr ('()l t, o l l cop 'er. lumberl'l. gals!linle. ugf Irie1ltulral mlachinen'. And in the comp11ariSonl we are ý1oing I1 1111l a m1ighly g'ooll Iirrgument for ien e t w rh Il o the \\hnl le proli l ering truil' -rishlen 11 llil.1 Th'Ie pflulncralt, 11,11 better slick to "hill per cent .\merieniis' andua leave the uc Inda fact., alone. NIoa' lithle II he talk gboul imei1,an .holheism il the tilt i rel s t' i 11141i es with cI riin i'-;t tt i ce I iti pomnlii- which \\111 I1 :ecae the enlployer, I4 labor anda the ow\ners 111 ilulus Ir'ial Iprop1erlY in11to aking 1111 t Il'\ 1'111 fun 1 o ilnslu ance -strik!' Illti n (1 11 'e , . \' i s l I l i n l n as t hil1:- 5 1 lls kind one i ath oflilltl (t the hind it o hen i enouglh Ill lun(nVer ii lot Ill so)-Calledl "lrolit ,th rinºI i .' " 11111/an demakna d and rl',Illin_ pr1icce .. isay 111+ Pac1ker. i, (:hicoea2 m1arke4t paper. '-like priillit. is a 111111 l Ini\\ (but uni1!'umentsli cannal ahru:_atie Thllqer 'ore it 1'1llow\' 1logic ililt that Dill trulsls are strongerl 11i11 1overnmlenI . 1,111 d11 they 1101 curry s1111ly\ ill 1111 1,ockl' nar l Ielam oun ill fill other. ilnd from the trade bh ien\('l the iii<I tlockets real) enu'nllnu .111 1 11\\ it de vloII, IhalI .\,1115 n i \a 1(111 k. \\hI )s " 2.o\ im 1tll at ()n111 k has b~eell reemonliz('d by this re ublI if-. i; it (rb -ol e 11 imperl'1ial Jhuponl. '1I:' e v 11l lgicat step in the ,real garli IF hun1king 111 pleophlI -Iol ldl he tile reco'gnition o WVilhelml. \\h11 send, liame11 F;1,1i''n tripping by \\ith ,jau1l} hat dram n o'r ono eye. T11 show\\ 1111 11aughter" what, to buiy? King Prol.1it. W hell discussing the late Will'. 1lu I' fi'g'et that it \\'1 1ti, astrlm, for all co1neern1ed excefll the Ilrofiteers. Even it' 1Iul\ :rely ' 1111( and almlab tia. Ilh( IHalian fanmer will Ill) get it foot more id Sbil 1111( he hit, In h1111 11;1 ril impo)(Ssible deht. (.arItl'r (,las. it ullemlel' 1f \\i II I(' abi nlet, f''111 thet aulith. condoned the raiding of the \e\\l 1unk (:all olice by haolndim. Thel( C:all mu11st have been briln ine_ ihthe ()Il of the "t\\ili hti illlt the ' lht" tun soon.11 I The Death Train of Siberia We have made many assertionv as to who are the powers of darkness and who the powers of light in Ius sia. We have made them in the face of an avalanche of contrary state ments in the press and periodicals of this country. Our belief in the truth of what we were saying rested upon it general knowlcdge of the nature of the class-struggle against capitalism everywhere, upon a careful and stu dious reading batween the lines of the lies in other pub'ications, and upon private information which came to us through channels suppressed ,r ignored by those publciations. We have never had any doubt of the essential ti nth of what we were say ing. But we have not before had the power to make it virual and un escapable to our readers that we have today. We ask you to read through to the end this article. The Death Train of Siberia," and then read through to the end the report of Lunachars-y, the botshevik com missar of education. Both are in i ,ense "official reports." Which side are you on when you linish them?-- -Editor. This is the story of an incident in the attempt to overthrow bolshevism in Russia. by nassacre. It is the story of the deliberate and inhuman killing of men and women and chil dren by the ('zecho-Slovak and Kol chak monarchist forces in Siberia. It was first made known in this country by t brief and unrevealing dispatch which appeared in the New York Times. The w hole dreadful truth has now onme to light, and the "Ieath t'rain of Siberia 'stands revealed in its ;inister magnitude as one of the most horrible outrages upon humanity. not merely of this wiar, but in all human history. The facts are these: It the fall of 191 S. tile bolshtoviki took the city of Samnara. It was captured from them a little later by the Czecho-Slovaks. who proceeded to throw into prison hundreds of red guards, and others suspected of bol theviki sympathies. The city was soon retaken by the bolsheviki. And when the C'zecho Slovak forces evacuated the city, they loaded these imprisoned red guards and bolsheviki sympathizers, together with all the oiter people then in the city prisons, on a train. Fifty car loads of herded humanity, packed it closely as if they were already the corpses they were intended and des tited to become. That was in Sep teitber. * * For six weeks the prisoners on that train did not tee the light of day, except when the doors of the car were opened to throw out the dead. This assertion may seeem incredible; but it needs to be amended only by the excerption of a crrload of women prisoners, who were expressly kept for the uses of tol ofticers of the convoy. * 'rhe rest left the train only a' cortses-and in that six weeks 110 starved and frozen and pestileince stricken bodies were thrown from the train to rot. It had become the hDeath 'train," known all over Si to -a.s it must teconiie kiowit 'all over the world, as a symbol of the blind hatred and flundish veng~c snce, of the enemies of holshevisitt. After six weeks, it was halted at Nikotsk ity Some tAmerican iIed (ti'oss workers, whoi dotted the au titorities. held the t rain agaitit: or tiers for six days. and rescue:1 from this perambulating inferno some 2e)) victims. And then the train resumed its dreadful prtigres; back and forth across Siterit. * 5 'this death train, it should be rt mtembered, is an incident in the rule of terror exercisesi in Siieria by the ('~echo-Slovak and Kolchak forces. with whiorl the American, British. hreehtiit and Japanese forces were, and are, co-operating. It is through the correspotndencc of these American Red Cross worker: it Siberia that the whole story hais reached America at last. We quot' telow somite portions of the diary of itr. Rudolph iu ukley, formerly an Ante: ican banker in Honolulu, now with the American fled ('ross in Si boria. It is the record of a six-day itat ititption of ttiis prolonged mas atre. * * We have nolitted ii tain portions of Ili, story which deal with the heroic efforts of Ite lied Cross tmie to relieve the suffer ing of the victims. otherwise the nar rative stands as it(' wrote it night by night after long clays of unimragin atle deeps of horror. It is an ex tiaorditutry and utterly convincing story of a horrible thing which we believe the w~rld will not soon for get. It is the 15th of Novetitir, 1915 I stn at Nikolsk-tssurisk in Siberia in the past two days I have seen misery to till it lifetime. * * * 'I have ri ad many times of tdii tltack Hole of Calcutta. I have beer Itold of Russian prisoners returningti front Getet mat prison camps wrecked ,r; staurvattio and tuberculosis. Only four weeks ago. as a four-muitiniu ruan. I was preaching the doctrini, o; hate'.' 'Today. I humbly ask for giteoness for tly thoughts of hat' and pray front the (tpths of it;y sort that I may be allowed to play ii palt, though ia small one, in tryinti to improve tile condition of iten whatever their ntiionalitil, o that perhaps sane day this world may emerge into the grhiet brotherhood and that such ,hings as I tave seter maiy becomteti itolto-usible. * ' * 'I have stin. throtigh the Windows of box cars wtotle' dimIletnsions welt 24x li fe et. 40 anitual- who iiiis 1were humnan ne'tn. worsen and thint dren: face ;,,u rrd at mie which tcould not recognize as those of hu rauan beingt . They were like beast= afaes. of i spei'irs unknown to titan Stark idie-mss and terror starc' from their t yes. and over all the in mistakatl sign of death. * * Thlisi ';rin "f death," for bty tha numil ai istlrn Siheria 1oiW knowt tel--' \l. ii of the Russian rail roil .ry I 'e stationed as far teest I'' .. Ihuiia sitttitn, soitti 1.201 mii ile- a' 'I of here. thnottgt wltich Ill trI mu t have passed tit letist tltree ttek .tI.go. Sitnce thlen it liar ttutse'l II "Il" I Hutitar. Titaikar. Hat' hint .11' .111e gointg ott and on like ,u itthi" ''-''its. thritugh a land wh ete it sItri kenu passetigers fountd litle oodandless pitly * a* * * 'i left Samuara * * *iii lii g' itt sitme Rusasiati of ticers t 11iadi tot board at that tim 210 ii i isootrs of alt sorts. They itr I'l'-lHatrentlyt civil tirisoners. 0om1 '-'re hitlslheviki, olhiers had been released trom the prison at samara. Many of them said they wcre thrown into jail for being against the bolslieviki at the time the bolsheviki were in control; and when in the course of the fighting the Czechs and Russians occupiad Sa mara, they simply cleaned out the whole jail, packed the prisoners into this train and sent them out west. letween that day and the day be tore yesterday, when we found this loathsome caravan in Nikolsk, 800 of these wretches had died from starvation, filth and disease. In Si Ib-ria there is misery and death on every hand, on a scale that would ap pal the stoutest heart. There were, as near as we could count, 1,325 men, women and children penned up in these awful cars yesterday. Since last night six have died. By and by they will all die if the train is per mitted to go on in such conditions. "It seems a wicked thing to say, but the thought has surely come to me that to kill these people pain lessly would require perhaps $3 worth of poison or $10 worth of am munition; and yet for weeks this train of 50 cars has been wandering, driven on from station to station, every day a few more corpses being dragged out. Many of these people have been in box cars for live weeks in their original clothing. There are front 35 to 40 in a box car, measur ing, say 25x11 feet, and the doors have seldom been open savoy to drag out the bodies of the dead, or somie women who might better be. I have been told that when they first started there were as many as (00 in many of the cars, but death has weeded thett out. 1 have climbed into these cars at night with my flash light, I have gone into them in the early mornings and examined them. I have seen men with the death rat tle in their throat., hall' naked, with lice and vermin visible ott them; others with the whining grin of im beciles. holding out their hands for a mew cigsrettes or kopecks, chuckling with glee like apes upon being given them. ti( tsQ (l(i(at, silet rals;(isai ro viitin this train his nothing, and the accumulation of filth in which these people have lived and are dying is absolutely unspeakable. The Rus sian oflicer who was in charge of the train has made inconsistent state ments about the reasons why these people have been subjected to such awful deprivation and abuse. He tries to make the beht story of it possible. They were supposed to have been fed regularly at the dit e'ierent. stations along the route, but Otten for days at a time there has been no one to give theit even bread. Were it not for the kiidiess of the poor villagers who, with tears run ning down their cheeks, mecin and women alike, give them what little they can afford, they would be ab solutely without nourishument. "It have talked with a woman dos tor (a prisoner on the traiit] who was doing lied C'ross work with the (c1 guards. She would have done the sa tne work for anyone. She has ten on this train for weeks. I have it; led to a girl untuelr I yearn of age, itu' tiful, refined, intellectual. She was formerly i typist and book keeper in the mayor's otlice at. SN tara. The oppolsitiin patsy got in 'tie applied for the sate' job and got it. Later time autnhorities heard of hes' former occupation and she wx's sentenced to six days it jail. She was taken in the great net. She lihs been on this train for weeks. and iinless ise Red ('ross corses to lit aid sie will die on this train. All the clothing lise has on is a filthy idense and skirt, a sort of petticoat, 5 ttir '01 stoelciigs anth lists!s. Nit coat, in this lierce ixnter weather. I have talked to a man who xlinta not Ihe brainss left to know the dif ference between a red guard and one of any other color. His wife iuar reled with another woman, who evi dently lodged complaint. That night he was arrested in his husei, accused if being a red guard. tie has been in ilie box car for live weeks. He will sie within 48 hours. * 5' I have seen them die, and the follow ing morning I have seen their bodies dragged out of the ears like so much sbbish. The living are indifferent. For they know that their turn will tome nest. : * While tihe prattle about liberty, jtlstice and !ii snanity goes on * *' * our hands ire bound by 'diplomacy' * * We are holding the train. That is lhe imain thing. It should have ha ;un going back toward S muara last ;ight. list it has not gone and I do not think that the Russian train of icrials will dare to send it out with tss on the spot all the time, opening the cars ourselves. talking to the srisoners, giving theis what hope of see!p we can, and taking photographs ".ery day. We are doing all this without authority. and in the fac' oft his lotisr we donit care who cares. '"it is iispossible to tell in print lie story of the uin fortiuls to women thi have been imprisoned here ill lei thete awful conditions. Thlsi iie trs'ted better than the men. You all know why. In one car are 11 women. We have sat with them snd talked with them in a mixed jar ,on of French, Russian and German. On thie inside of the car hangs a pieic if string. On it are four pairs of isckings owned by these I I wonmn ITs'e floor is covered with refuse :ind ilth. There are no means of clean ng it, neither brooms not' huk "Its. They have not taken off their clothes 'or wee's. In the center of the 'a! sa little wood stove. and there src heeres of word ant i oal on time tloor si around ile sides of the cars run -wx rows of planks on which the in 'sises sleep at night and sit hIutchecl sp by day. If there ever is any of icial food for the prisoners then( 'o'len get the first pick, and thti ohysical condition is much better 'inse 11 of themi have a car whiel' would accommodate 151 men packed :ii as they are, "Two mtiore days have now gonE by. Since we arrived si cooking cat has been put on the train. with r large iron kettle. and yesterday the guards claim to have civen thel pri mers a little soup. One kettle for 1,325 people, and soup passec through a window a foot by a foon old at half. by means of an old ruiisty ean! * * * Yesterday one o' the women was taken out of one o' the cars by a Russian officer. He wit return her when the train pulls out * * * In this car is also al emaciated creature that was once a elan. He was a journalist. His wift is in the same car. She has a very few days to live. When the men stand they fill the entire car. On the two rows of planks built along the sides, the dead and living sleep as best they may. We were told by the guards this morning at 8:31 that three mete had died during the night and the bodies had been removed. As we walked past the train a man hailed us from one of the cars, and the guards were told that there were dead inside. We Insisted on the door being opened and this is what we saw: "Lying right across the threshold was the body of a boy not over 18 or 19 years old. No coat, merely a thin shirt, in such tatters that his whole chest and arms were exposed, for trousers a piece of jute bag pinned around him, and no shoes or stock ings. What agony that boy must have suffered in the Siberian cold be fore he died of filth, starvation and exposure! And yet 'diplomacy' pre vents us from taking charge and giv ing aid. But we are holding the train! "We climbed into the car and found two other dead lying on the second tier of hunks amongst the liv ing. Nearly every man in that car was sunken-eyed, gaunt, and half clad. They were racked by terrible coughing. They had the stamp of death on them. if aid does not come quickly they will die. We looked into a few cars only, but at one wins (low, we saw a little girl perhaps 11 years old. Her father, she said, had been mobilized into the red guard. So now father, mother and child are on that train and will die there. * * "It is the 22nd of November. This morning we got up at 7 o'clock and left for the hospital where we had an appointment with Dr. Selesnieff, the military chief. When we arrived wte found everything in a terrible condi lion -more than 400 patients with only three doctors and three nurses. Two patients had died during the night, and the doctors had discovered nearly all the living to be suffering from diseases of different kinds, in cluding two cases of typhus. We have since learned that a week or so ago two men were put off the trait suffering from the same terrible scourge. * ^: "I)r. Selesnieff gave its his offii'al report of the conditions, setting forth in corroboration of the stories that have been told to me, that during the weeks that the train had heet moving to and fro, passengers had died daily from a variety of causes, including typhus. dysentery, influ enza and ordinary starvation. 'The people on the train have re mained for weeks without wartn food, without boiled water, and many even without bread. * * * Ac cording to the testimony of oflicers in charge of the train, the command ant of the state reports that he had orders to send the train back to tli t west, but I am sure that among thC passengers there are still a number of people so sick and exhausted that further sojourn in these cars will prove fatal. 'We are stlil holding the train by means of co-operation of the Czech lieutenant, and in case of need he agrees he will put the engine out of order. Last night the station master showed us telegraphic instructions it tlie' effect that the train positively must pull out at 1 i. ti., but it is still here. * * * 1)r. tlanget arrived last night, advising us that General Graves had had a long con ference with the Japantese and Rgi, stan commanders, both of whisto had assuredi tint they would do all in dhris' power to co-operate, but this seems to mean very little. "We are still holding the train and have made arrangements with a Itu$ sian tathii some three-quarters of it stile from here to wash all the pris oners tomorrow for 450 roubles. They will start at 6 o'clock in the morning and walk to the bath. "November 22. It is bitterly cob'. There was a heavy snow storm last night. * * "The baths are all ready and we are waiting for the first contingeti. In the distance, against the snow, we (ail seei a body of men advancing very, very slowly and with great dit ticulty. Maany stumble as they walk and have to be supported by the o1ter prisoners. s, * "The first 011 have gone in and now there is a fire burning in the yard where the disgusting clothes are burning. inside, the unfortu nOtes have each been given a piece of sosp and are scrubbing themselvets while the guards carry out t he clothes and put themt on the fire. The wagon has arrived wit hi SO swelaers, 451 pairs of socks. and 120 pajamas. 'Tomiorrow when this train pulls out it will have 925 Red Crosres on it, but I mlst still call it the 'train pf death.' There is no use disguising the fact that these people are neat ly all going to die, for as soon as the train shall have pulled out the old conditions will return and there will be once more the corpses thrown out (lay by day from each car. 'November 23.--Today we leave Vladivostok. We have done all that we could do. We have just learned that there are 30 additional cases of typhus in the hospital and heaven knob's how many on the train. i We have bought buckets and brooms for the cars, which will help a little. "Later I cause down from Nikolpk in a box car with three American sot 'iers. It was bitterly cold. HWe tad no stove, but by alternately 'rouching together and then at times wrestling and mauling each othissr trountd we managed to keels fairly warts. We finally reached Vladivo stok at about 9:45. T ait hopilug that I may be allowed to go out in Siberia with Dr. Rosett and hunt for utiter death trains. We may not save accomplished tisch, but we at 'east saved a couple of hundred lives --for a timtie. * * 5" If any doubting readers still lies late to believe that such atrocities 'lave been committed by the rea' ionary forces to which the United States government has been tending ts aid in Siberia. we refer them to the offleial organ of the Red Cross, he Red Cross magazine for Apt ii. in vhicsh appears the full account from vhich we have quoted the excerpts irinted above. There the whole tory is told, witt phnotogranh; and 'et not the whole story. for it is fated its an editorial nole that "pro (Continued on Page Three.)