The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-05-22
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
AT ARCHANGLE
Don't Exactly Understand
Why They are Working
On the 'Bolsheviki.
THERMOMETER IS BELOW

ARCHANGEL, March 2S-Cor-
respondence of the Associated Press.
The Russo-Allied force which has
been conducting the campaign
against the Bolsheviki in this far
northern region has been outnum-
bered by the enemy everywhere from
two to ten to one.
{ What they lack is numbers, this
force makes up in pluck, the pluck
that makes them stick tight under
attacks by superior forces, although
they have not much interest in the
Russian question and feel, candidly
speaking that the folks at home in
Washington and London and Paris
are making them suffer the penalty
j of their inability to make up their
minds as to what should be done
in Russia.
They grumble because they are
here, and at the mistakes made by
! those at home and in Archangel
who sometimes don't exactly under
stand the disposition of a homesick
Yankee doughboy or British Tom
mie who is sitting in the snow IN
a frozen trench where a heavy fur
coat makes no more impression on
a mans heating apparatus than it
it were a web of gossamer. But
they go on fighting, just the same. :.
With all their hardships, these
| troops have confidence in their com
| mander, Major General EdmunG
Ironside, a veteran of several Brit
| ish campaigns, and a six footer ply
| sically who spends more time at
the front than at headquarters in
| Archangel. They know the General
is looking out for them but they
| don't feel the same way about the
folks at home.
To march for four or five days
7! over snow trails, sleep On the cold
| hard floors OF peasant cottage.
at night in an atmosphere so thfcl
/ that one couldn't even pour it, an(
then to fight all day in fifteen be
low zero temperature, has been NOR,
or less routine for the Yanks III
here. They have fought with sig
nal bravery, ewhen greatly out
numbered, and when support, be
cause of the weather condition
or the trails failed to reach them
Nearly two score af the American
wear British or French ribbons 70
bravery in action against Bolshevik
and more decorations are on tn
way.
The Yanks have gone on day b
day, grumbling but smiling abou
their hardships. They're not extra
ordinarily fascinated by the Rus
sian "Barishmas," or young girl
and have Yankee contempt TO
! males who wear whiskers and kis
each other in the streets and spea
a jawbreaking, foreign Language
They want to go home as soon a
they can, and, to them, it seems tha
all Uncle Sam has to do to &c
them home quickly is to send up
lot Of regulars and Marines an
finish the Bolsheviki quickly.
The point of view of some of th
American officers is illustrated b
the remarks of one of them to Th
Associated F~ess correspondent.
HI he said, when he arri-
ed here with other American rei1
forcements last September, "The1
isn't any justice, no justice at al
We've been training at home
Camp Custer for months and montl
to fight the Germans. And then the
send us up here to Russia, to guar
stores I suppose. The Bolshevi
= cant fight, any way, for they
nothing but an organized rabbi
We wanted to fight; we didn't jo
the army to watch these Russiol
Revolute."
g This winter down in snow co
v cred little log hut, thatched wi
birch boughs, on the front, I Sc
this same officer half-frozen despi
his fur coat and Shacyelton boot
as he waited at the field telephol
1t while shrapnel from Bolsheviki gu
" were Bursting somewhere arou1
IL I us.
a. he said. there isl
amy J, no justice at all T