The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-24
ESIAN SOLDIERS
| FRENCH TERRIrCi,s'
rrRIY STRATEGY IN NOV
lie A MILLION MEN TWO
,Ipns AROUND GLOBE. WILL
INTO ACTION IN JUNE.

Eafly IN lu0 We" =,
.onss+ional story to get out that
ew million or SO of Russian sol
Lo3 come around in transports
Arcbapgel, landed in the north
oo+land and moved through Great
din in transport trains and thus
+bair way to the western front.
he story may have struck terror
invading generals, the Russians
or did, The trains that moved
.zN stpriously south through Scotland,
windows darkened, were after
Ids said to be empty, and the great
lion vancouver was fake for
sategical purposes.
However, there was no rake ABOUT
ont landings of Russians at the
Dncb mort of Marseilles. Five such
adings were recently reported Off
.slIv and the aggregate of Muscovite
.diers must now be considerable.
first contingent to land at Mar
lies is said to have comprised from
e. 600 to 10000 men.
allied Them Serbian Refugees
3ut there is a story now going the
- nds that the Russians who landed
Marseilles were not the first Rus
soldiers of the war to reach
nee. 1t is said that during the first
ELK of April a contingent OF Rus
ms reached Toulon in the gulse OF
rbian refugees. They wore civil
clothes and were without uni
arms of any kind or equipment. This
ssntingent, said to number between
900 and $4,000 men, were taken
rail to Camp de Mailly, a big mill
nv training camp about 100 miles
st of Paris and about the same dis
Ance from the Verdun front.
There they were met by those of
heir officers who had not travelled
18th them, and also by several hun
ared Serbian officers, who have been
ssigned to commands in the Russian
Evolutionary force. The Serb and
Russian languages are almost identi-
b.
Equipment Ready for Them.
Russian uniforms, made in France,
Sfes and accoutrements were dealt
but to them, and within a few hours
81 their arrival the SERBIAN refu-
ees' had been transformed inco full
7edged soldiers of the car. The
greater part of them are reservists
md consequently trained soldiers.
here are many young men among
hem, however, who have never done
military service, and several months
pill be required to get these latter
sn shape for the front.
Why the French government, with
the arrival at Marseilles of the Rus
ians, abandoned the policy of con-
Fealment and permitted it to be
known that Russians had arrived is
bot known.
Some May Cross America.
Meanwhile thousands upon thous-
ARnds of Russian troops, drawn from
SSlberian contingents, are assembled
ln Manchuria and Siberia, awaiting
the transports which will carry them
to join their comrades in France.
French and British manufacturers,
according to the story, already have
completed and delivered 100000
complete sets of uniforms and equip
ment for the Russians use when they
arrive.
Not ALL however, are expected to
Journey by the Suez canal route.
Ureat numbers will cross the Pacific
ana Canada-some of them possibly
Journeying on American railroads as
private individuals-and embark on
transports being assembled for them
IN Canadian ports.
Ihey say the Russians will get into
acton about June. You can't tell
maybe they're in the trenches about
'efdun today. They say the idea of
'rihgng them two-thirds of the way
alouhd the world was conceived when
III lungs looked dark on the west front,
Sneh It became known that Germany
nau decided to risk a terrible thrust
me verdun region and the allies
seGIed they would not have men suf-
tbg' They say one reason why
t s,ey orlng so many Russians is that
ny consider the east front amply
sst.TIIected, that Russia has more men
al nome than she can arm and equip,
III III mat 1t is easier to land a few
Sa ,;T1iISand Russian soldiers at Mar
n 'i p- Than to transport equipment
- IK1ussia's interior.
of borrower, in France the problem
CIlahSportation is easier. There are
r >lUie railroads, shorter distances and
mol eht;rated action. They can Wet
ia H. and arm troops on long front
VIII VIZ more easily than in Russia,
ara Le distances are great, railroads
lew, roads bad and the front in
ear ouI It IS admirable strategy which
no ~'- transport thousands of men half
mo around the globe-if they're do
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