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New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

ut was the impossible that always
was asked Of the Legion, MARION. 1t
is the impossible that always is asked
Of US as we'll. But in the one case
and the other the impossible has been
done, and will be done. SO now l will
You shall live. You shall work to ease
sorrow, not to create it; to build up
the world. not to destroy it. I say
nothing against your Legion, FOR men
like you must go out to fight that
which is wrong. say only that a man
goes from one regiment to another,
that one regiment may serve as we'll as
another-that our legion may have it's
place as we'll as yours. Is it not true.
Marbon?"
"You are brave" said he simply. He
still sought to nod, his lips tight
"Then you, too, MARION, consecrat-
ing yourself to this, our legion. must
be brave again You must live. You
must hope. l promise you-you shall
yet forget"
"Tt Is a new Legion!" he exclaimed.
"It does the impossible. A good creed!
Well, then, vive-"
Suddenly he drew out his arm from
beneath the covering TO wave his hand
But his hand was gone!
Gently she pushed his arm down as
he gazed at it wonderingly.
Patience, my friend!" said She
Patience and courage! In our legion
We also do the impossible-for the sake
Ak love and hope"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

German armies IN the war of l87O-'T1
1T long ago became hyword. Here
is an edifying dispatch from the gen
eral commanding a German division to
the Minister of War:
"14, November, 1870
"The Bavarian prisoners that have
arrived at Oloron are in possession of
important sums of French gold, watch
chains and large quantity of women's
jewelry. GOLTZ"
young Prussian soldier writing TO
his mother from Argues, on Decembe
9, 1870, says: "Thc only change thus
far in our habits is that when we re-
turn home we shall no longer know how
to distinguish between what is thine
and what is mine. We have ell be-
come regular thieves; that is to say,
we are ordered to take whatever we find
that may be useful 20 US The
officers naturally take the precedence
in these operations, and steal particu-
larly the valuable paintings that are
hung in the chateaux. Not later than
yesterday our adjutant, Prince Won
Waldeck, said to me: Meyer, do me
the pleasure Of stealing everything
you can bring away; we shall thus
prove to Moltke that he has not made
US wage this war for nothing
When there will remain nothing more
! To ir
one another"
Mr.. Hans Wachenhusen, writing from
Chartres on December 8, 1870. to the
Cologne Gazette" says: "Since the
war has entered upon its present state
we have been leading a real life of
brigands. During the last four weeks
we have passed over regions entirely
ravaged. The provisions in
entire departments are completely ex-
lausted, and the inhabitants of towns
that were formerly prosperous have
been reduced to beggary. f. In
these desolate towns the ruin caused
by incendiaries makes still sadder
pectacle. Yesterday I saw several
towns burned. The silence of
these houses Cat BonnevaD, in which
were to be seen some pale emaciated
faces, was something so frightful that,
although night had fallen, preferred
to go further on"
All this may give some faint idea Of
the horrors suffered by France in 1870,
and even then they pale before her
sufferings in the present war. Forty
eight years ago Prussia stained indeli-
bly, the honor Of humanity. Yet her
past was patti of virtue compare d
with the present progress OF her Kul-
tur, which leaves the abomination Of
desolation in its track and threatens
| the existence of civilization.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

TE LAY silent in his white ban
dages. It was his first return
to consciousness. He thought
he was in another world
Presently he heard gentle sighing
the signing of many men rcpressing
their pain for the sake of others. Else
wise the place was silent. save that
from some distant place came music,
soft and gentle. Again the thought
came to him that it was another world
that world Of which one never spoke
in the trenches. He was sure OF this,
since now he saw approaching him a
creature in white.
She came and stood by his bed,
passed a hand across his forhead,
looked down at him with gentle eyes.
"Well, Mnrbon of the Legion" said
she. ut comes on. eh? 2"
He smiled suddenly, his even white
teeth showing between his bearded
lips.
$50 them" said he. "you are not an
angel!"
"Oh. no. MARION. am but the
nurse" She touched the badge of the
Red Cross on her cap.
What is it--your organization ?" he
asked. "In the Legion we do not know
Of it. Who brought me in? Did cry
outf"
"The bearers brought you. You did
not cry out. You were close to the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

I. is our creed to leave such where they
fall. Who. then, are you, to violate
our creed-you with your uniform OF
white and its insignia of red?"
at is the white of clean faith, Mar
bon of the Legion. 1t is the red OF
hearts bleeding in sympathy with other
hearts on all the fields of all the world.
That is our creed"
"Tt is folly" said he grufly, trying
to turn beneath the white counterpane
"When a man falls he Is done If he
cannot rise Of himself. In the Legion
one kills a man sometimes in mercy.
have done as much-many times.
lacked that--this time"
"We do not kill the wounded, Mar
bon. We save them. Could you not
devote yourself to my creed? You
see"-
II see that you are brave as any
of US. But what you ask is the i'm
possible"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

impartiality. When the Prussians.
after the fight at Champigny, sent
their wounded to Versailles, they went
to the Dutch hospital, tore the French
wounded from their beds, flung them
on the floor and put their own men in
their places. Mr.. Van der Welde and
the doctors protested, pointing out how
i'm partially the hospital had been con-
Quoted, and claiming that the Prussans
had no right to monopolize Dutch am
bulance and behave thus inhumanly
The answer was Prussan order to
pitch all the Dutchmen out of doors"
This was done, and the Prussians hav-
ing confscated all the ambulance ma
terial, Mr. Van der Welde and his party
were obliged TO return, robbed Of their
property, to Holland. "The prussians
respect nothing" Is the conclusion of
the evidence "the Geneva Convention
has no more weight with them than
the Luxembourg Treaty"
AS for the robbery committed by the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
1E BOLSHEVIKS DEADLY ORATORY
Trotzky Opens Big Fight Against
Moderates in First Days of Soviet
Battle Royal Raging in Peas
ants Congress

) Lenine should speak. He is small
man, not at all radical in appear
ance. The front of his head is quite
bald. His face is clean shaven eX
cept for a small mustache. His
manner is simple. He started in
Ike a college professor reading a
lecture. He didn't pound or rant.
But in few moments the crowd
was stu His words burnt in. Each
one came liquid clear. 1t was like
stream that started small and clean
and grew to a deep, swift running
river.
The man was sincere, a fanatic,
but an idealist. | found myself
swept along, throbbing and beating
with every emotion of the great.
rough peasants. My reason was
against what was being done.
didn't believe in winning by force.
believed in democracy. l believed
every one should have a voice. The
bourgeoisie we're not all bad, nor the
proletariat all good. The right
could be risked to the decision of
all mankind. If the majority were
not for it, it would not last. Not a
class conscious but world conscious
decision of right was what was
needed. Yet in spite Of my beliefs
I found myself shouting and clam
oring with the Left. 1t was infec-
tious. The peasants were SO simple
and true. There were no ifs and
butts about them. They had been
beaten and abused and underfed
and left to fight the Germans with
naked fists. The moneyed class hac
betrayed them. They had allowed
Germany to food the land, monopo
lize the government and seize the
business. With mighty effort this
beastly tyranny had been over.
thrown. Now they were told the
cadets were betraying them, they
were like the moneyed class of old
Well, then, down with all cadets
The Assembly must meet, but the
cadets must go.
Through all this surge of feeling
gradually the words of Lenine stooc
out:
Only people without consciences
can say the Bolshevik government is
menace to the peasants. Nine
tenths of the army is composed Of
peasants, or, to put it another way
the guns are in the hands of thu
peasants. 1t is just because tn,
power of the Soviets rests on thu
mass Of the people that no force
in the world can go against them
The conspirators, the Kaledinists
are isolated, and they must sue
cumb wherever they are, even i.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

At this point Trotzky's voice was
drowned. The room was in commo-
tion. Every cne talked. Then a
Social Revolutionist sprang to his
feet. Order was restored and he
began to speak.
However much we believe in
fighting counter revolutionary
forces, we cannot declare all cadets
enemies of the people and refuse to
let them sit in the Assembly. To do
this will end in excluding the Mod
crate Socialists. Finally, there will
be no Assembly. The peasants and
workers look on the Assembly as
the final coup, the expression Of the
national will. They will not under
stand. 1t will bring on bloody rev.
olution.
"Lenine and Trotzky, after hav-
ing made an end Of cadets, will turn
against their Socialist friends. If
in their dreams they see Marat and
Robespierre, let them not forget
Robespierre's end and that which
came after. The Russian revolu-
tion can be pushed to the same end.
"1n this chamber 1t should not be
only words of hate that are heard !;
there should also be words of love.
Our revolution before all else wa
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Soldiers Ordered
Members Elected

This was signed by Chernov and
109 members. They had hardly fin
ished when the commandant re-
turned with soldiers. The members
were ordered out and one man was
forcibly elected. 1t was the last
meeting in the palace. The COM
missaires had taken up the fight in
earnest. Trotzky and Lenine were
making impassioned speeches. They
issued the following statement:
ga handful of people are trying
to open the assembly. They do this
that they may declare their counter
revolutionary actions legal. AL the
conquests of the revolution are in
jeopardy. The peoples commits
saires bring this plot to the atten-
ton of the public" :"
The commissaires had grown bold
er. They began to attack the as
sembly openly. They had been Sue
cessful in the new Duma election.
The total votes cast we're only one
half of the 100000 votes Of the pre-
eeding election, but practically all
the votes were for the Bolsheviki.
The new municipal Duma had con-
vened, and the new Mayor had
opened with the following remark:
Il salute the victory of the pro-
letariat over the bourgeoisie. Greet
ings to the peoples commissaires.
Let rs proceed to socialize property.
Let us carry out the DEGREES Of the
council. Long live the commune"
Encouraged by this spirit on the
day Of the parade, the commissaires
issued two DEGREES. One declared
all cadets enemies Of the people and
demanded they be arrested imme-
diateiy and brought before the rev.
olutionary tribunal.
The other granted the right to a
new election on the petition Of one
quarter Of the electors, and gave the
power of recall. At a meeting at
Smolny Institute Of the Soviet.
Irotzky and Lenine defended these
DEGREES and their messages. Said
Lenine:
In the midst Of civil war one
must not make a fetch Of the Con-
Stituent Assembly. It is the bour'
eeoisie and cadets who have dragged
Us into strife.
Around the cadets ali counter
evolutionary elements gather. Shal
We then convoke the assembly as |,
originally was elected? To do &C
- 70 gather together counter revolu
Honary forces. This must not be.
But such doctrines were not calm
~ accepted. Instantly Il soldier
~as ON hig feet, protesting.
You cannot arrest a whole party
II you use these methods with th'
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

r~HE day following the first
meeting of the Constituent
4 Assembly in Petrograd l went
hack to the Tauride Palace. Eight
.nousand soldiers had been placed in
neighboring barracks. The palace
Itself was we'll guarded. Soldiers
with bayonets were at every en-
trance. Small detachments moved
about the buildings and ground.
One company was sprawled upon
the floor of big room. They had
their knapsacks for head rests and
we're fast asleep. Several Of the
correspondents gathered in a corri-
dor to talk. Immediately soldiers
stepped up and told US to disperse.
Meantime thirty or forty delegates
straggled in. They were the pro-
fessor type. They wore frock coats.
There wasn't workingman among
them. They we're jostled by the SOL
diers and not allowed to form in
groups. They withdrew to the Ii
brary. Here they began to hold a
meeting. The commandant ap-
ueared. He said their meeting must
stop; that the Council of Commis-
saires would announce when they
could meet; that first, all cadets
must be arrested. Then a delegate
jumped up. "Will you arrest mem
ber of the assembly," he asked.
Certainly" said the commandant,
"if he is a cadet, for they are
enemies of the people. They are
not assembly members, only the
proletariat can hold such an Office. "
But the little group refused to re-
tire and the commandant withdrew.
They hadn't quorum. 1t was use
less to hold meetings until more
members reached Petrograd. But
they decided to publish the follow
ing statement:
sPeople of Russia, do you know
how the new despots treat your rep
resentatives? All the rooms in the
Tauride Palace are closed. 1t is
clear to the whole world that the
promise of the Bolsheviks to speed
lily unite the assembly is a lie. They
make that promise to hold their
power. They promise one thing and
hope another. When our number
increases and we are strong we will
return to the palace. We will not
give in to the usurpers. Be ready
to fight for the Constituent Assem-
bly,"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

wire of the objective. All, the Legionl
Always it is the Legion which must dc
the impossible"
1--WE did it, then ,"
eyes. It was glorious. But there is
no Legion ncw!"
She wiped away the tears that gath
cred in his eyes--the first his eyes had
known within his memory.
~ am Of the Legion!" he murmured
"Why did you join, Marbon?" she
asked of him.
"To fight" he said simply.
"And to forget?"
"Why, yes. That is best attained in
fighting, you see"
"And you came to Fran:e-for some
ones sake?"
eve do not speak Of such things in
the Legion" he said simply. "But
what matter? l am broksn and done.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

waged in the name of justice. "
Thus the battle ragged. But in
the end Trotzky won. The decree
declaring all cadets enemies Of the
people and excluding them from the
Assembly was adopted by a big ma
jority. The Assembly's fate was
sealed.
Proceedings in the
Peasants Congress
left before the vote was taken.
knew there was battle royal in
the Peasants Congress. They, too,
were debating the future Of the AS
sembly. Another correspondent and
myself made our way to the Town
Hall. The cars were still not run
ming. We were both dead tired. By
bit of luck we got a sleigh. 1t
was biting cold, but the four miles
back to the Nevsky' Prospect we're
soon covered. We mounted the steps
Of the Duma building. We went in
the back way. We knew the place
would be jammed. No East Side
Socialist gathering ever equalled
that crowd for emotion. The place
throbbed with the life of the whole
world. The Peasants Congress still
retained Chernov and his faction.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Russia Out Of
Twentieth Century

That night | trudged back to my
house, full of conflicting emotions.
Russia and Russia's problems were
not easy to solve When ! reached
the Leteiney Prospect l hurried into
my door. To be out at midnight
was neither safe nor comfortable.
There was only one light on each
street. There wasn't fuel for more.
1t would have been difficult to see
but for the glistening white snow
l was weary from my enforced
walks. l fell promptly to sleep.
Then hang, bangl I woke with a
start. Another bang. sprang
from my bed and rushed to the win
dow. The street was empty. Then
/ saw a couple of people running
and STOPPING low. They dashed into
the doorway of the telegraph Office
opposite. Then bang, bang more
shots. lnstinctively I knew what it
was. The soldiers were looting the
wine shop on the corner. If they
stuck to the wine it would be an
right, but suppose, in their drunken
ness, they besieged our apartment.
Ny heart beat violently. We were
on the fifth floor. Surely they
wouldn't climb SO high. But sup
pose they began shooting at win
dows. A fifth story window was q
long shot. went back to bed. The
shots continued, but gradually they
died out. Excited voices rose from
the street. What a tempestuous life
it was; SO full of good and i'll. What
would come Of it? One must have
patience. The changes were too
great and sudden to come without
violence.
The pendulum had swung too far
left. 1t could not remain there. It
must swing back; that was q law Of
nature. Russia has swung clean out
of the twentieth century. viii she
come back with rush and .
counter revolution or gradually slow
down and stop like the pendulum in
the centre? That is hard ques-
ton to answer.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

they are members of the Assembly
The people are not made for the
Constituent Assembly, but the AS
sembly for the people. That body
ought to consolidate our victory, but
it doesn't. 1t does not reflect the
opinion of the masses. Why, then,
should you hesitate? You have not
hesitated to take the land from the
capitalist; why should you hesitate
to take from him his vote?
"The Soviet will arrest all who do
not recognize the Soviet. The AS
sembly will not be convoked until
400 loyal members have assembled"
Chernov Rises
Amid Tumult
For a moment there was quiet.
Then came tumult
AS Lenine walked from the room
the Left arose. They shouted, they
stamped, they cheered. 1t was
deafening. The Kisses of the oppo-
sition were drowned. But Chernov
was on his feet, demanding a hear
ing. 1t took some minutes to re-
store order. He was irritated He
spoke with heat. Somehow his
words missed their mark His gest-
ures seemed artificial His oratory
after Lenine's simplicity was un-
convincing. He seemed TO be hurl-
ing rocks into a rushing stream. 1t
didn't stem the current. Yet he
had reason on his side His words
were applauded by the Right, but
scorned by the Left. What he said
was:
"The commissaires usurp the
rights of the Constituent Assembly.
They do not openly agitate the dis
solution of that body, but proceed
by underhand means They arrest
isolated deputies. If the cadets are
guilty of q plot the Assembly itself
should suspend their parliamentary
immunity. Even in the days of the
Gar Socialist members were not ar
rested until the Duma had been
asked to suspend immunity. But
the commissaires know no law
They push the Soviet against the
Assembly. 1t is time the Soviet
rose and demanded that these die
tators, these omm;ssaires, return to
them their power, so that they in
turn may place that power in the
hands of the Assembly,"
When he finished men sprang up
all over the floor. Hot words flew
back and forth. One peasant on
the left cried out, Long live the
Constituent Assembly, but if it goes
against the will Of the workers it is
the last time will utter that cry"
At IL o'clock Trotzky entered.
But the audience was in no temper
for a speech. The Left saw to de-
fend him was useless. The Right
had grown ugly. They hurled
taunts at Trotzky. Down with the
drinker of blood! Put him out!"
they yelled. Then motion was
made to demand the immediate
opening of the Assembly. A violent
struggle ensued, but the motion
passed by a vote of $50 to 321.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
By Emerson Hough
OF tho VigiIantes

TIE LAY silent in his white ban
dages. 1t was his first return
to consciousness. He thought
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