The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-12-21
FAMlSHED MEN
REDFLAC
Russian BoIshevik Army Not
Over 100000 Strong-Dis-
ciplined by Terror.
| CHINESE ExEcUTIoNERs
Attached to Each Regiment.
Signs Of Healthy Reaction
Daclared Evident.
Uondon Times Phil. Ledger Cop. Cable.)

uOnnOn Times lUii. ifukth t'P >"Ss'f
London, Dec. 21.--In the course OF
a meeting OF the Tanalyk Mining
corporation, Limited. It's chairman
Leslie Urquhart, made the following
comments on conditions in Russia:
"WhiIe I do not wish in any way
to belittle the numbers or dangers
to civilization of the bolshevik army
1 have the highest authority for say
ing that the total does not exceed
zoo, 900 men. The army Is kept TO-
gether with the greatest difhcuity
and only obtainable among famishea
men. The private soldiers are PAID
500 rubles (norrnally $3.50 month
and are given two pounds OF bread
\ day, one pound OF which they SEP
,fnr Sk~s,ik{eo ~ s.-. ~ t-s-.- 81
"DisclpIinc is kept by terrorisms
A company of i50 Cinnamon IL at
tacbed to each regiment to act as
executioners. When l was In RUS
sia at the end OF this summer l saw
this wonderfully disciplined army
formed OF Cinnamon, Let's. Austrian
and German prisoners Of war. Rus
sian criminals and men who 1oinen
either 10 escape death or hunger. a
bedraggled, unkempt lot walking IN
any sort Of formation, whi,e tne,r @
officers are from among the men
themselves. How In couple y.
months this army. which IL largely
dependent upon foreign hireiinss'
should suddenly become highly ols-
ciplined and well equipped passes
my comprehension.
Industries Stagnant. ..,
Industries in European RUSSIA
! that part Of the country which ~
dominated by the bolsheviki. are ap'
solutely at a standstill. There Is nc
production of munitions ana no 100
| provisioning Is possible except whei
| taken by force from the peasants ahc
accompanied by murder.
Only few days ago there wa
renorted an attack by these unuis
| ciplined troops on Reval. ines
guerrilla bands accompanied tnei
women and children with their 100
! and with deserters from the Ger
man army, struggling along marrow
| roads. and were repulsed by q rev
hundred disciplined soldiers, wn'
drove 1000 in front OF them nk'
sheen. The recent defeats reported
IN the last few days as inflicted OF
| them by Admiral Kolchak IN TN
| TTrals and by the Don Cossacks II
| the south are themselves suf'lcich
| evidence of the inaccuracy OF IN
reports emanating from Moscow. II
nv mind these are circulated Tor IN
nurnose of intimidating allied pup
iic oninion into a policy of forgetting
moral obligations and refusing thei
oss;stance for the regeneration
European Russia. A..
Consider the boundaries OF IN
bolshevik power in the empire 10
dav and YOU will see, 1t hemmed u
nv Siberia, by the Urals, by IN
Trxroine and the Don Cossacks
country.
Allied Influence.
| "Allied influence for law anu VI
der predominates in the Caucasu'
Central Asia, the northern terrltorie
~ poland and the Baltic province
have repudiated 1t and separa.e
themselves from 1t. The area unoe
hoIshevik control 1t Is true, Is I'M
nortant and was the former seat 9
Government in the heart OF the coun
trv. but covers roughly some l,tov,
200 SQUARE miles out of S,6oo'oo
which go to make Russia. or,
other words, one-flfth of Europea
Russia and only one-seventh OF Tn
whole empire.
"The progress has been gradua
but signs are not wanting that
healthy reaction is taking place, an
as an evidence Of this broup OF com
nanies which are all working In 81
IBERIA and the Urals shows. !,
with the opening Of the ports !
the Black sea and the Baltic apai
from Archangel and Murman and
tho far east the influence OF civili
, zation and trade must make itse
| feIt before very long"