Douglas Island news., 1918-08-16
THE ZEcHo-sLovAE ARMY

ChIIU~t are -alutIiu- lN IN'tl ''il''' ''' cautoumcuts. where they are training for| fgh.me in France for their own freedom and .lc Freedom of the world. The Czcho- SIoyak cautomcut near Stamford. at the turn of sparkling river, is the spot where. the Bobcmi0us and SIovakS from all parts O. tlr United States are in training The .r,naatiou is very brief for as soon aS' .uou.h arc ready ror smpload they are. sent overseas More of their compatriots fake their places. and as the months go by' battalion after battalion will come and go.
 I- is through am international anomaly tnat wc have this cucumpmcut in the very midst of Ymkcclaud Some persons may rfr, oH-lmd that the government ought to see that its dcuizcuS. were properly m- termed rather than made the recipients of ail and comfort. The two races represented. bvtlar title are under the dominion of Aus uia-iumgary. IT they were ou the other side or tbc water in their old homes they would be marched off in Tcutou uniforms ta feh. agaiusr the Allies. It has been very hard. however, to induce the Czochs and SIoyak> to fight for the pau-Gcmau idea. even when the alternative is the firing squad. The ancient capital of Bohemia, Prague. citadel of the CzcchS for many cen turtles. is even now in revolt In all the countries of thc allied cause the Czccbs and Slovaks are raising recruits to serve under thc French high command and against the power of thc common enemy. IL iS csti- mated that there will soon be l500O0 of rhcm iu their own army.
 r this bo treason lhc CZcchS and Slo- walks arc entirely willing that the Germans shall make the most of it.. Fortlrcc ccutm- iosth.y have been u more or less rebellion a.aiust tHg IIapsbmgs whom they accuse of baj faith and tyranny, and likewise they hate tha IIohcuzollcuS. Although some off the lands where dwell the Czcchs and Slo- walks in their original homes are Germans. tle majority of them are of the same blood a> are they who are rallyuc just across thc| Connecticut border The Czcchs even rel sent tuc name Bohcmiuu because it was ouc applied to them by the Germans. They aru the descendants of the hardy Boil, to| whose country the Germans gave the titled BoHhcim. or home of the Boil, which wei have AugHrizcd into Bohemia The Czcchs| also object to the frivolous use of the word Boh.mia which associated them with tenn rcwual uccr-do-wcus and abSorbcrs off rol mk and dcvomcrs of cold-storagc chick au The name Bohemia as handled about t0c Greenwich village is a relic of error. Even persons of learning once confused thcI Rohcmjms with thc few bands of gypsicsI who wandered from some land of mystery into mid Ic Europe. Sir Walter Scott uses tlc word Bohemia as associated with strange people of the waysidc.
 So that thc Czcchs may hold uothiugI agaius. us We will call them by their trucI name under which they now go forth toI war. It is their purpose that there shall bc carved out in the center of lIttcl-EWo- pa the free and independent Czcko-Sovak state. They would have tlicr own land iu| which they may revive memories of heroic iIuss and the glorious traditions of Ziska.
 NAtu IU'l dIIlNt oyer lutIc luc NOl-I uutccrs will soon be made lit to meet allI conditions of modern warfare There will bc numerous reunions, for Czccho-Slovak army in France will include soldiers from all parts of the world Many of the war riors have been captivcs of the allies. AL though regiments composed of men of these races had refused virtually to join with the German and Magyar troops, multtudcs were driven to do SD at the point of the bayonct- When through the for .mes of war they fell into the hands of the .II.ns tLcH cnnsidnrcl themselves prisoners