Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-08-20

into the hands sof the Germans. Each
! of our regiments had 200 to 500 ma
! chine guns and nobody i'm Russia. To
say nothing Of Moscow, could have
I at all contemplated an attempt at op-
| position. Moscow, moreover, would
| have received us with open arms. But
we were determined to leave as the
arm of friendly brother nation, with
an army which in spite Of all bad en-
4 periences, wished Russia the strength.
| ening of real democracy. Although
/ we could not sympathizc with the
4 Bolshevik government, we as guests
! refraned from all action against it.
and remained absolutely loyal to it.
Turned Over Their Arms.
''To prove indisputably our loyalty
we turned over to the Boshevik cy-
erything, all our arms, with the OK
ception of few rifles which we kept
Tor our so to say, personal, safety
Go rifles for each 100 men). The
equipment we turned over to the Boil
sheviks including arms, horses, auto
mobiles, airplanes etc, WAS worth
more than 1000. 900, 600 rubles, and it
was legally IN our possession. for we
took it away from the Germans TO
whom II had been abandoned by the
fleeing Bolshevks. This transfer of
the equipment was of course preceded
by an agreement made between us
aad the MOSCOW government by
which we were guaranteed unmolested
passage through Siberia to which the
government pledged to give its un-
conditional support.
Already there were signs that the
Germans were beginning to be uneasy
about our movement. Today we have
documentary evidence of the fact that
in March the Germans considered our
progress as naive adventure. which
soon would end in failure. When
they saw, however, that tho "impos-
sbility' as they called it, was be-
coming reality, they began to do |
their best to frustrate our efforts, ana
organized an army against us. AS i
had said, the BoIsheviks, though not
exceptionally friendly to us, restrain
ed so far from all direct action |
against us. Their only desire in that /
respect, to which they devoted much |
money, was to persuade our volun- |
teers to join their Red Guard. We !
did practically nothing to oppose it. |
but we knew our men, our people |
are too well educated politically and /
in every other way, to be carried |
away by the methods of Lenine and |
Trotsky.
WOriS of German Agents.
More dangerous was the work |
of German agents, who, under the
mask of internationalism found their
way into the soyiets, In every soviet
there was German who exercised
great influence over all its mem
bers.
Soon there came the news that
the German and Magyar prisoners of
war were organizing in Siberia and
were being armed by the Bolsheviks
under the pretense that they wero
going to fight against world imper-
ialism. We have proved how that the
Germans were planning to provoke
our conflict with the Bolsheviks and
to destroy US piecemeal with the
aid of the armed prisoners of war.
Under such circumstances we be.
gan our pilgrimage east. | was in
the first train, 0here were then so
trains of u.s., which was to prepare
the way We were determined to
leave Russia without a conflict. Not
withstanding the fact that we kept
IN nd az
arms with the exception OF the few
our progress was hindered
and unendng negotiations had to be
repeated in every sat of a local So
Wet We were threatened bv ma
chin guns, by cannon, but we patient
ly stood 1t all although the Bolshe-
vik Red Guard could have been dis.
banded by a few Of our volunteers,
After 81 days of such tiresome travel
our first train arrived in vladivostok,
where we we're enthusiastically re-
ceied by the allied units stationed
there.
when the Germans saw that we
Notwithstanding all their intrigue
were nearing Vladivostok, they exer.
cised a direct pressure on Lenine anc !
Trotsky: for the things that were
later committed by the soyiets. cannot
any furher be explained away by ig-
orance. The trains were stopped M
5ifferent stations so that they finally
we're separated by a distance of over
80 miles from one another. Provok
ng incidents of all kinds were the or.
Ter of the day. The arming OF the
;erman and Magyar prisoners was be-
sun on 4 large scale. One OF ths /
riders OF Tchitcherin, the Bolshevik i
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