The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-06
PUT A RED ARM

diers fed it and I shot probably Is, 900
bullets into the Germans as their sew
en- waves came over No Mans Land.
We finally beat down the attack and
afterwards 1 was given the cross"
Captain Thompson told a weird
story of the incidents surrounding the
attack. The Germans took Russian
prisoners, wounded them in the legs
and tied them to their barbed wire
entanglements. They figured that the
Russians would not fire into their own
comrades. Finally, after day of
anguish, pierced by the cries of the
wounded Cossacks on the German
front, the captives yelled over to the
Russian lines:
Shoot, comrades shoot Wen die
this way for Russia
Immediately the Germans attacked
1t was then that the machine guns
opened fire from the Russian side
ana captain Thompson won his COW
eted medal OF glory on the battlefield.
The BOlsheviki Situation.
Thompson's idea of what will cause
the fall of the Bolsheviki movement
in Russia is that it will come from the
country districts. Thompson states
that the thing that will conquer Lee
nine and his Bolsheviki is an army
from outside Petrograd, an army that
redIy represents russia, and that rep
resents, too, Russian government of
all parties and peoples outside the
capital. IF Kerensky had taken his
government to Moscow in the first
place, away from that hotbed of Ger
man intrigue. this latest outbreak
Wouio never have occurred" he said.
Recently, Kerensky did see this com
ing and tried to scatter the workmeny
sendlnS them to other parts of the,
country on plea of food shortage in,
the capital But it was too late
Speaks to Newspaper Men.
captain Thompsonswin speak before
the memb ers of the Topeka Press club
at the Chamber of Commerce this
evening. He will tell of his exper-
fences abroad. He also speaks tomor-
row noon before the Chamber = of
Commerce. -
The Topeka war photographer is
gaming fame thru his bravery in visit
ing the front line trenches of the
armies of Europe. He has written a
DOCK on the Russian situation and on
his Russian experiences to be ready
for sale over the country soon. He is
figuring on writing series of books
touching experiences and containing
photographs from all the fronts he has
VISITED in France, Austria, Germany
Serbia, Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria and
Russia
He has prepared another book to be
used in connection with the Red Cross,
| liberty loan and Y. NJ. c. A cam
paigns, Thompson now is on his way
to the Pacific coast where he will
work with the liberty loan campaign
ers and will show films, pictures and
! give war lectures
| Captain Thompson is working in
Connection with Leslie's. Weekly, the
New York World and the United
States government His pictures taken
in Germany when he was with the
| Huns before America entered the war
have been used extensively for study
! by the United States war department
Right Up in Trenches.
| Not long ago in Topeka the Pathe
! company exhibited great Russian
war picture by Donald Thompson. 1t
| showed scenes up in the trenches dur
ing a battle with the Germans and
AustrIans. Thompson said today that
he took most CT these views right up
with the soldiers He used an cleo
tricaliy controlled camera fitted to a
! periScOpe and took thousands of feet
| of film while men were dying on all
sides of him.
The most disheartening and still
the most important incident of my
| Russian experiences, as affecting this
country, Captain Thompson said to-
day, was the result of German in
trigue right in the industrial capitals
of Russia
! Il have seen thousands of shells
! made by Russian munition works that
| Wouio not III RUSSIAN guns Then /
| have seen the Germans capture this
! ammunition, wheel about and use it
| in their own guns against the Slavs
1T indicates what we have to ex-
| pect in dealing with such a tricky and
| treacherous nation Germany has not
| won a fair and square battle since
| the war began. She has won every
| thing by treachery and thru spies and
| disloyal enemies.
''It is lesson that we must take to
| heart