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in Gold
Recovered and
Thousands of
Miles of Railroad
Capture ed Law
andO Order Occu-
pied Territories

west, Joined on the Amur. Also in far
eastern Siberia the Bolsheviki had
only recently grasped power n had
not committed such excuses as to
turn the people against them. For all
these reasons our men suffered great
loss here: in two months lighting the
casualties we're proportionately twice
as large as the loss Of the western
groups in three months fighting. BY
the time our men reached Khabarovsk
the allied detachments Joined them,
and when a little latere traffic was re-
established along the Chinese eastern
railroad to western Siberia all the
Czecho- Slovak groups were sent to
fight on the western or the Ural fronts.
After connection had been reestab-
lished with V~ladivostok and the entire
railroad through Siberia was in u
hands, n regular battle front was es-
tablished alonk the Volga and in the
| northern slopes of the Trails. The Red
Army planned to recapture at any cost
the cities of Kazan and Ekaterinburg.
They captured Kazan because the
small C5echo- Slovak garrison could
not hold 1t and evacuated 1t voluntar-
lily. This was necessary to shorten the
front and prepare for winter. But all
the efforts Of the Bolshevik army 20
capture Ekaterinburg were defeated
with great loss. To-day the entire
| Czecho- Slovak army is concentrated
In the Ural Mountains.
Truth About the Movement.
I nave heard the charge made in this
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Czecho- Slovaks Joined the ounter rev.
/ olution or that they were in the SER
vice Of allied capitalists. The fact Is
that the three Czecho-Slovak armies,
in Russia, France and Italy. have been
a part of the allied group armed
forces and subject to the supreme
military command OF the allies. But
even before we received instruc-
ions to remain in Russia-that
was on June 2S-our convention de-
cided wo could not abandon Russia an
til there were guarantees that the new
coalition government, enjoying the
confidence Of 80 per cent. of the
people, would be able to maintain order.
So far there Is not in eXistenca a Rus
sian army strong enough to oppose the
we'll organized and German trained
1 bOiNlAtNih al IIllts. jill lIllllEt all
military equipment had been aban-
doned to the Germans on the old front,
so that the new Russian army Is not
as yet able to hold its own without al
lied assistance.
AS TO the reproach sometimes made
that the Czecho-Slovak army Joined
the counter revolution. I will say my
self, though ! am a socialist, that the
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revolution against the B%olshcviki Is
n democratic-socialistic revolution. It
was prepared by all the Russian So
cialist parties which could no longer
stand the arbitrary fashion in which
the faction Of Lenine and Trotzky
employed the power they had usurped.
Czecho-Slovaks by their interference
on May 81 merely fastened
counter revolution. BY this act the
Russian nation prOfted immensely,
for much less blood was shed in ST.
IBERIA than would have been the case
otherwise. Everybody knows that the
communist Soviet did not represent
the nation; to-day It does not repre-
sent even the working classes. They
maintain themselves in power by
violence more Objectionable and bar
barous even than the old czarist sys-
TEN. Such a government cannot be
OF service to the people. and as for
Socialism, it is a PROCLAMATION Of It.
Is the Czecho-Slovak army main
tanned by the Allies? No. Down to
me end of 1917 1t was considered a
part Of the Russian army. subject to
the supreme Russian command, and
was maintained by Russia. When
the Rolshevih went to Brest-Litovsk
TO make peace with the Germans. the
Czecho-Slovak army became an indie
pendent army and was maintained
With Its " means, namely. by a
revolutionary loan Of the C2echo-
Slovak people. When this money
was exhausted the army secured an
international loan from the Siberian
Government under conditions which
protected It's independent standing.
Why Allies Were Asked to Helm.
Why did the Czccho-Slovak army
call upon the Allies for assistance,
thus bringing about international In
~terNention? II waR one Of the allied
armies from h bcginn ng. ana it was
entitled to call on its allies for HELM.
When 1t was faced by overwhelming
odds and tired out by constant fight
Ing 1t was fully justified in asking
the Allies TO come 10 it, assistance.
The Soviet Government by attack
Ing the C2echo-Slnyak trains on Nav
20 and 20 attacked III" Allies. If there
had been any sort OF orderly govern
men, in Russia ana II Trutzky-Lcnine
had kept the promises mad to tho
tz~echo-S.ovaks, this small army would
have left Russia long ago and there
would have been no occasion for in
ternational Intervention.
The armed Interference Of Czecho-
SloNaks IN Siberia justified Itself by tts
fruits. 1t conferred lmmeasurabIn
benefits upon the liberated territory
PROD lCtion in commercial and indus
trial establishments which broke down
completely under B~olshevik rule has
been restored. This vas conc with
tho assistance Of Czcchu-Slovak en-.
EInoers and forcmon who were ac-
Guaintcd with condi ous governing
Russian industry ana assisted in car
rying through u ~rrorgani2ption.
Up to the time when the Czccho-
SlOvaks took a hand in Siberia all
this was in the hands of German nris-
Oners Of war, who worked for the in
%terest OF German capitalists and pre-
pared the way for German explulta-
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