The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-30
ARCH4NGEL SOBERED
BY GREAT TASK
Is Engaged in Only One Pursuit That OF
Fighting the Bolsheviki-The Change
from Gay Wartime Capital Came
in the Winter.

Archangel, June 20 Correspondence OF
the Associated Press Six months age
Archange was gay, wartime capital
with hundreds of Russian soldiers in its
streets and very few of them at the
front To-day it is becoming sober, bust
nesslike and engaged in only one pursuit
fighting the bolsheviki.
The change came about in the winter
Last autumn the Russian military forces
were small and the civilian and prom,
enade the streets officer class made
merry while Americans and British and
French fought their battles at the front
But all the time, the people were being
modified and trained. There was doubt
in nearly every mind about the ability
OF the newly trained Russians TO fight
Late in the winter, when the bolshevik
offensive was at its height, Russian mo.
bilized troops were thrown into the line
They made good, and, from that mo,
ment, with only a few little setbacks
now and then, the Russians have been
keeping up the pass.
For six months they relied upon
strangers to fight for them, but from
the moment they began to find them
selves, the Russians developed morale
that has brought about countless changes
not only at the front but behind the
lines, in once easy going APchangel
Pushing them on has been little
pocket edition general, n dynamic per.
sonality in plump five foot frame
Vladimir Marushevsky, commandcr-in.
chief Of the Russian troops of the North
Once in command of Russian troops in
France, he came TO Archangel TO push
the reorganization of the Russian army
His orders to the Russian soldiers and
officers were as startling TO the analytic
verbose Slavic population as they were
laconic
"It has come to my attention" read
one of them, that there has been much
useless chattering about certain subjects
among the officers, Henceforth, there
will be no more babbling"
Everyone in Archangel knew what
that meant that political subjects were
TO be taboo ii the north Russian army
The pre-reyolution Russian army was
clean. compulsorily so. but after two
years OF disorder the soldiers were not
so particular about soap and water.
Gen. Marushevsky, who was CARRIED in
plain, simple uniform without the gaudy
coloring or fancy swords affected by
some of his subordinates, went among
the soldiers and talked to them frequent
I L. LII,
bath for every man in the army.
ut is impossible there are not enough
bath houses in Archangel," complained
some Of his company and battalion com,
manders. Il am not interested in how
you battle Them said another order
from the dynamic little general that
is up to you, | will hear no excuses
every soldier must have his weekly
/ bath"
And now, nearly every day one may
see in Archsngel, a company or so OF
singing soldiers, marching TO a bath
house with their bundles of clean linen
under their arms The atmosphere OF
Archangel has certainly improved
Practically every able bodied Russian
in Archangel and the province, between
| Is and As has been modified, and those
beneath and above the limits the schoo
boys and the middle-aged men, have
joined voluntarily the civic guard and
militia. In the parks, on the streets and
in backyards one may see little group:
of high school boys or bearded men
mastering military evolutions and the
technique Of an army rifle, under in.
struetion Of army officers or non CONS