The sun., 1918-12-22
FIRST U. S. FIGHTERS
HOME FROM RUSSIA
81 Wounded Men Among the
Battles Thousands Tell Of
Hunting BOlsheviki.
1000 HERE ON FIVE SHIPS
British Hero of Furnace Of
Death at Ostcnd U-Base Mar
rates Modest Story.

The highest happiness which this
life affords comes when a doughboy
steps off a troopship and senses the
fact that his No. 10 tan army shoes
are actually resting on a solid Man
haitian.
The Bolshevist Is a hairy person,
given largely to whiskers, hooked
nose a small soul and parched yell
low skin drawn tightly across an
anamic physical and spiritual make
up; also the Bolsheviki believe that
they should line themselves up at the
ratio OF ten TO one against the enemy
and thens the minute the enemy APP
pears, should run backward at
tremendous rate of speed.
Two thousand American and allied
soldiers, of whom 1000 were Ameri-
cans. recently chased $4,000 Bolshe-
visits steadily backward for a distance
Of more than 1855 miles.
The weather conditions in northern
Russia are such that the American
soldiers fighting there now have only
two hours OF real daylight in the
twenty -four hour day. American SOL
diers chased the Bolshevlsts over the
snow in sleighs in September last.
/ Nineteen Bolshevik spies. seven of
whom were women, were captured by
American. British and French soldiers
and lined up and shot just outside Of
Archangel on November 20 by an
American firing squad. or before Pres
dent Wilson and the Grand Exalted
| Sentimentalist's Union of America had
chance to pardon the sneaky sons o.
guns, American soldiers shot them
women and all, and gave three rousing
cheers as they pulled the triggers.
Germans Man BoIshevik Guns.
All Bolshevik machine gun units are
Germans, wearing German uniforms.
Many of the officers OF the Bolshevist
regiments are German officers.
Almost all OF the Bolshevik soldiers
| whom the American soldiers have been
| UP against are now in hell.
These and countless other indisputa-
bic facts were run up against when
the good ship Baltic of the White Star
Line docked at the foot OF West Tween
tieth street, Manhattan. soon after the
noon hour yesterday, the Baltic COM
ing up the river and Wrapping into her
White Star berth amid an uproar OF
river whistles which to Manhattan is
old stun but Is to the returning SOL
diers ever new.
For the first time since America en-
tered and helped to end the war which
the Allies had waged so bravely for
/ four years, American soldiers who had
fought the Bolsheviki amid the SHOWS
of northern Europe stepped ashore
when the Baltic locked. They formed
just little group, numbering twenty
seven wounded privates in ali
/ mostly from Michigan and Illinois
especially from Michigan-who wore
; Russian fur caps. idiotic Russian belts
which they had taken away from Boil.
shevik prisoners, and clumsy Russian
shoes.
The little group OF American tighter:
in RUSSIA unit of which next e
nothing ever is heard-were originally
} they said, part OF the 33sth Infantry
When they landed in France many
; months ago they expected naturally
that they were TO he sent TO the west
d, ern front to stop the German onrush
Instead they were separated from
their command. shipped TO Englan,
and then sent northward into the &c,
seas Of summer TO Join the French ant
8 British in the great work OF shooting
] sense into the Bolsheviki.
4 Calls BoIsheviki Cheap Coolies.
and those Bolsheviki are tn.
cheapest coolies in the world" sal,
Private Ernest NJ. Walker of Man
istique. Mich, on the White Star pic
soon after the Baltic locked. Som,
y said they were twelve to fifteen to on,
against us-Im certain they were a
least ten to one against us--and tn
e first day we faced them they began I,
o run. Just after I was winged in tn
right arm and had to quit our paper
. showed that in a short time we ha
chased them 155 miles.
I'VE chased them so fast that on
supplies couldn't keep up with us
Maybe that doesn't mean anything t
n the folks at home, either, but it mean
n hell OF n lot to a soldier whose break
fast can't keep UP with him. | use
: to see red every time one OF the dirt
e cheap skates, who had no idea wha
s they were fighting about, sent bullc
- into a nice. clean American boy-th
e cheap no good heaps Of dirt
J. Reds Dirty and TreacherOua.
g. "As fighters they were as yellow a
: hell. If an American, British O
I French soldier with blue steel in han
l. came within two whoops and a hole
Of any one of them they threw IL
their hands and bleated like babe
u Sometimes when we took pity on ther
T. and tried TO treat them decently they
e watch their chance and try to get eve
= by cutting the bellies Of American
= English and French boys who WEI
&c sleeping beside them"
- And what happened them"
What happened? Well, We were
u long way from London, Paris, and e.
u pecially Washington. We dealt wit
III the dirty devils without waiting (,
e. anybody to tell us the rules. Get me
IL When things like that happened v
10 first told them they were swine ar
then acted accordingly. And II ar
one back home here doesn't like 1t thu
can lump II. Get me?"
ar All the Bolshevist officers, so far
e. the returning American soldiers wi
~ had fought in Russia could see, we