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Rtissian BiRedsM Luring
U. S. Troops by Song
Bolsheviki Sina: ''Yanker
Doodle'* and Put on
\audeville Shows at thf
Bridpe ?ar Vrchanarl
English Banncrs Hoteted
American Offieers Met Redn,
but S o 1 d i e r s Gener
ally Scoff at I'ropaganda
mRCHANGEL advieea reeeived
/\ yesterday disolote hov the
?+*? Ruatian Bolsheviki apread
thr\r prqpaganda among the Ameri?
can troop* fighting under the North
m, Ughte. The Aeaociated Preaa
haa had a eorreapondent with the Al
lied foreea in Northern h
' iroughoui 'he campaign. U
?patrhes hy cabU nnd mail have g ? n
the only dt tailed accounta of the
, ?? mtiea of the American ("rcc:--.
He c ? ely the story of
the recent refv "?? American
infantry company to go tn the front
trenchea.
4 letter from 'he eorreapondent
Ytceix ed yeaU > day >; partic
., since it throxca a clear light
cn the Bolahevik methoda, which
General Marci discu8aed in Woah
ington in this week'a conferencea
. ??? i -? rnu n. The lette
? e Bolahei ik projm
qanda fron t efforta, when
cirrtnres front the enemy were rc
ceived with ridicule, down to the mo
tneni u 'kneaa made aome
of the doughboya more'receptive to
the ?- I r i nnd literature,
foUowa:
Made Speeches to Americans
ARCHANGEL, Feb. 12.?That the
Bolsheviki are the world's best propa
gandists was demonstrated during tha ?
long, cold nighta .that occur in this
region.
Bown on the line of the highway to
Petrograd, along which are the graves
ef tha Americans who have fallen and
where t ad been fight ng
for months around a little five-house
v:!!age called Kadish, the Bolshevik j
?rators showed how expert they were
in spreading I iews.
General ly they talked in Russian,
their.speeches being transiated by in
tprpreters in the American ranks.
Occasionally they sent to Petrograd
and got some ex-American immigrant
to give a lecture in Englisb on thefrea
sons for Bolshevism to a rr.orc or less
interested audience of dQughboys on
the other side of Xo Man's Land.
Give "Vaadeville Show"
ror r. long time, when our hnes or.
*he Kad - were separated from
the Bolsheviki only by a 75-yard-wide
atream, over which there was a wooden
bridge which neither side wished to
. both figuring on using it some
day, airr.ost nightly there occurred a
?trange entertainment
- mea it was on.ly a monologne.
fn which a Bolshevik orator on one side
of the stream would Ioudly harrangue
the Amerieans. Sometimes it was a
? ch the American
*ouW ' an that stuff!"
"What's eat::;g you V and other simiiar
ions. Or.ce, when the
feeling particularly
. gave a propaganda vaude
ville show. follow ng their English
plea to come over and
jom them w I -rdeon solo, the
ae of which was "Yankee Doodle."
Americans Meet Them
:nere were formal state occasions
?hen a Bolshevik officer would cry out
^rom the dark that he wanted to talk
-* an American omcer. A lieutenant
i ' a capiam would go down to the mid
meet him. The
A.nencan officer would take \ ? ;?,?,.
preter with ? .. ' ?'", inte,\
the three would
cold, arguing Tr*<.e
?? \l\l mutual
? rorce
? v:,; off.eer
-
officer?
arrr.load of
? mda matter
p?r. . - troopB.
warfart ' a11 "&? of
gener, ^ "fficers.
Of naoer" ? ' W mUch in r'^'i
ouV'and^/V: V^^it and then go
day. K" ln bf-lter humor th<
L'?ed Engliah Bannera
'V. same sector that the
^c.scor..er- among the Americans if
>n%d Z- r ir' ^ncewaa
lfl\/T '" !"^'"tiSe the fact.
EnS Ut]?8*red bar-"r?, Printed in
?ha- ?.S- i lrreat wh,tfl lettert
Enela^ wr'rk!"inn"? of France and
* *nd Gemany had made
?om '*r,A t U.rfd ? th* Am-r'cana to
?' ar?d do Itkewise
bj tha way, efther beara the
, signature of an English .iournalist who
has joined the Bolshevik administra
l tion in Moscow, or shows the handi
work of some Russian journalist who
once worked in New York--grcat stress
1 is nut upon the claim that the Bolshe
viki are workingmen fightng against
the capitalists of tho world, and in
I viting the Americans to come and join
the happy rroletnria4.
Spurn "Rcd" Propaganda
The Americans, so they declare, have
not yet figured out for themselves why
they iir^ up here after the war with
Germany is flnished, but they also de
clarc that they took no stock in the
trodden workingmen stuff" of the
v i k i.
??Workingmen," one of the Yanks re
marked disdainfully, "they never did
they'ro a lot of ' long-haired
works."
Thc Bolshevik) in their propaganda
tried to convince their f<>e? that they
were not so bad as they were painted,
particularly with rofcronce to treat
ment of prisoners. As the Yanks up
here have got it, the Hnlshnvik kiils
mera, nnd, because of what they
about this they rall him the
"Bolo." That name for him has crept
lost of thc ofneial dispatches from
the front to General Headquarters and
it is the officially accepted synonym.
See Bolshevik. Brutality
The American? have seen some of
brutality, There were tive mu
tilated bodies of Americans down Ust
Vaga way, in tho Shenkursk sector,
that outargued all the Bolshevik prop
aganda. But, on the other hand, one
own pn the Kadish line, the Bol
iheviki sought an excuse to trot out
and show our soldiers how well they
treated their prisoners. They brought
out one American who had been mi'ss
ing a long time and also a Scot, in
view of a party of ofTicers and men.
The two appeared well fed. Then the
Bolsheviki whi^ked the pair away into
the woods and invited all the Yanks
to "come over and get fattened up."
Perhaps the truth of it all may be
that the Bolsheviki sometimes kill
prisoners and sometimes try to make
heviki out of them, alTdepending
on the caprice of the officer command
itig or the sector in which the pris
oner is taken.
March9 Explaining L. S.
Mutiny in Russia, Tells
Of Plan for Withdraival
WASHINGTON, April 12.?Official
reports to the War Department, made
public to-day by General March, Chief
of Staff, show the mutiny among the
American troops at Archangel was di
<iue to propaganda circulated by
Bolsheviki sympathizers among the
men. all of the questions asked by the
soldiers of their officers having been
directly suggested in leaflets urging the
Americans to revolt. The mutiny now
appears to have been confined to the
members of Company I. 339th Infantry,
and to have ended when the men en
trained for the front.
"We have a report from Murmansk,"
General March said, "to the effect that
the organization which was referred to
is Company I, 339th Infantry. The dis
patch states: 'It is worthy of note that
the question* that were put to the
oft'icers by the men were identical with
those that the Bolshevik propaganda
leaflets advised them to put to them.'
"I have not seen this leaflet, but I
am very anxious to get it. This is a
very striking thing. I have had long
experience in the army, and I do not
recall ever having seen American sol?
diers who did not want to get into a
fight. They have always said 'Lead
me to it,' and went to it."
Single Agitator Blamed
The information as to the source of
the mutiny, coupled with the fact that
no reports of further refusals to do
duty have come, led officers to believe
that events would show that the single
agitator in Company I, who was ar
re3ted for refusal to proceed with his
company when the others had decided
to obey, was largely responsibla for
what happened. They regarded it as
almost certain that he would prove to
be a man with Bolshevik tendencies,
and had no doubt that he would be se
verely punished. The remainder 0f tha
company, it was said, would take a
different view of their action when
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homc.
The general situation of the forces at
Murmansk and Archangel has been im
proved, Ger.era! March said, through
the reopening of the railroad from Mur?
mansk south, bringing the distant
southern outposts. into direct touch
with headquarters. The chief of staff
did not be'.ievc the military situation
in northern Russia was at all alarming.
He said transportation was now open
to such an extent that there would be
little difficulty in withdrawing the
force.
Communications Restorcd
"They have constant commumcation
by land and water between Murmansk
and Archangel," he said. "I do not.
think the withdrawal question presenti
ony difflculty.
"We have a report from the Mur?
mansk dirftrict that on March 28 the
Onda bridge had been rebuilt and di?
rect communication by rall had been
established with the most southern
post of the Allica. of course, the
uation of these small detachments is
not known to us here. Sometlmcs the
change over night, nnd it takefl about
a week for message? to get through.
But now they have the railroad straight
through to the Tront the question* of
Kupply nnd reenforcement are aolved
There should be no troublr aboul il
tow."
200,000 Russian* Dir
Of Starvation Monthly,
Hoover Tells "Big 4"
PARIS, April 11. Herbert C. Hoov
er, the Food Administrator, has issued
a statement with regard to the feoding
or Ftussia. It says:
"With regard to the rumors of food
relief to Russia, Mr. Hoover stated that
numbers of projects from various
sources have been laid before him for
proviRioning the people in the larger
cities of Rudsia. Dr. Nansen, head of
the Xorwegian Food Mission to the
United States, and other eminent.
ncutrals came to Paris some time ago
with proposals for relief (words miss
ing) of the first order and have, there?
fore, all been referred to the Council
of Four as they arose.
"The relief administratlon has car
ried on a great deal of investigation
as to the actual food conditions in
Russia. The gravity of the situation
cannot be overesumated. A very con
servative estimate would indicate that
upward of 200.000 people are directly
or indirectly dying from the food short
age montfely at the present moment.and
the situation is likely to grow in in
tensity ns the season progresses.
Priority for Children
"Under the distribution system rig
idly enforced by the soviet government
in the larger cities the children have
the first priority on the food supply
by way of rneal service in the schools.
which are open to children of all
classes. Tne Red Guard and workmer.
have second priority and the bourgeois
and intellectua! classes receive the re
mainder. Our reports wouid indicate
that the children who attend the
schools are now being reasonablv cared
for, that the Red Guard is receiving
asufficient ration, but that the burden
of the shortage falls upon the middle,
upper and intellectual classes and
threatens their extinction before the
next harvost.
"How far this will be the practical
result, however, is a little difficult to
determine because of the great immi
gration to the country. The popula
tion of Petrograd has decreased by 70
per cent.
"The Lenine and Trotzky socializa
tion of the processes of production has
so wrecked both production and dis?
tribution as to create a state of fam
ine in a country which formerly con
tributed so largely to the food *upply
of the world."
Freneh vs. English Text
Splits League Framers
OARIS. April 12 By Th? Assoc
ciated Pres* .- A rather sharp
contest has ariscn ovcr the question
of 'he language of 'the ofnc.al cove?
nant of the league of nations and it
also is e.xtending speculatively to the
peace treat tself Vt l session
Thursday night of the League of \'a
tions Commission, the language ques?
tion. with regard to the covens nt,
came up aml occupied almost a half
hour of thc debate.
rt is a question of Freneh or tng
lish. The Freneh put forth the claim
that Freneh generally had been con
sidered aa the language of interna
tional usag | . ?? .,,-. ?,, \
in times trnne |,:, ? ,..,, - U3C(j ,n . ,,..,.
trea iea nnd conventions. They also
odvance the argument that it haa
peculiarly valuable qualities in ex
I '?" ng prci - rm anings, and I i ?
generally more under itood by oth< r
nations than rJngli ih
n,i ' i iaid to be a question tl it
can be Bettlcd only by the peace coun
cil in plenarj ri ion,
Rifles and Machine
Guns Fail to End
Kioting in Egypt
Reloaso of Nationalist Lcad
ers Also Unsuccessful in
Checking Hostility of Na
iivrs 'Toward Europeans
CAIRO, Egypt, April 9. Belief that
the proclamation of General Allenby.
commander in chief in Egypt, relca :nc
Egyptian Nationalist leader-'. would
lead to restoration of normal condi
tions here was dissipated when dem
onstrators who took a holiday of two
days to celebrate the event became ag
gressive. Troops were called out and
several persons were killed.
A chemist shop in Dpera Square was
destroyed and an Armenian employe
killed. Disorderly crowds gathered at
other placc?, and tiring could be hcard
at interval?. L
About 1 o'clock in the afternoon a
crowd attempted to barricade the ap
proaches to Abdin Square and consid
erable firing was heard from that di
rection, including a few machine gun
bursts. Order was r.nally restored by
mounted patrols. After 6 o'clock shops
reopened atn.i the streets resumed an
appearance of anlmation.
The funeral of four Moslems killed
in yesterday's disturbances was made
the occasion for a pdlitical demonstra
tion. A procession of several thousand
Egyptians followed the eortege utter
ing loud and frequent cries of:
"God restore the power or' Turkey!
Down wit h t yranny! "
LONDON, April 11.?Adispatch from
General Allenby received last night. re?
ports that Cairo is outwardly quieter,
but that disturbances continue. Quiet
prevails in the provinces, the dispatch
says,
An official Btatement says that on
April 4 a battle occurred be?
tween nval factions at Keneh, Upper
Egypt, involving loss of Iife.
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Seores Killed
In Dusseldorf
Strike Riot*
157 Died, 181 Wounded, in
Fighting Between Troops
and Workcrs. Asserts a
Berlin ?uspapcr Report
COPENHAGEN> April 12 By The As
sociated Press.,-The "Berlin Zwolf
uhrblatt" report, that 157 persons
had be(.n killed and 181 wounded in
the fight ng between troops rvnd
strikers at Diisseldorf uo to last evei
ing. The heaviest fighting occurred
'. n e w e'..
suppij
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BER1 , April 12. The resi^nation
"?* '':'- " hiffer as M er of Finr.nce
'??'- the '? - ?? i?" nat . gc t-nment
may . . :. .; ?: crisis. a
c'ispa u "T igi blatt"
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able to t '-? ck stn ! . _. - lunder
ing and daylig ries aggregating
millions of marks, tuut thc city assem?
bly has tnanimc . ?: a resolu
f.on for the turning o er ? t the poiice
'iepartment to Prussia, prov;ded the
state is willing to assume charge oi it.
Socialist and other pnrtv speakers
declared during the debate that the
police either would nor or could not
prevent gambling of the most open sort
;r certain sections, tl dai ;
wages ' ?' tl ?? working n, tl
pnid the unemploj ed f ipport,
','?" Pr"-,:<-' tnoney of choolbi ya and
tlie tip-! of messengers were gambled
away or spent for stolen articles that
could not be purchased even at the
stores charging the highest prices. The
venders of such articles, it was de?
clared. not only admit that they are
selling stolen goods. but actually indi?
cate where the articles were stolen.
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Lkrainain Soviet Force
Takes Grimean Capital
LONDON, April 12.?The#Ukrainian
Soviet forces have captured Simfero
pol. capital of the Crimea. and Eupa
toria, thirty-eight mile? west north
west of Simferopol. with considerable
This information is contained in a
Russian government wirele?-; com
munication received here to-dav.
PARIS, April 12.- The "Temps" to
day printed a wirelesa message from
Kiev atinouncme that Ukrainian Soviet
had occupied the railway centre
of Djankoi and were advancing on
Simferopol, capital of the <>imea.
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