El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-26
YankS HOmeSick
Face Big Odds
But Still Fight
Archangel Forces Disguised
With Indifference OF
Administration.

ArchangeL Russia, Nay 26.-(Cor-
respondence OF the Associated Pressl.
The Russo-allied force which has been
conducting the campaign against The
Bolshevisi in this lar northern region
has been outnumbered BIZ the enemy
everywhere, from two 10 ten TO one.
What 10 lacks IN numbers. this force
makes up in pluck, the pluck that
makes them stick tight under at
iacts by superior forces, although
they have not much interest in the
-.lsslan question ana feel. candicly
speaking that the folks at home In
Washington and London and Paris
are masking them suffer the penalty
OF their Inability TO make up their
minds as 20 what should be done in
Russia
The grumble because they're here.
and an the mistakes made BIZ those
az home and in Archangei, who some
times don't exactly understand the
disposition OF homesick Yankee
douEhb0v OF British TOmmie. who is
sitting ia the snow iu a frozen trench
Were heavy fur coat makes no
more impression on a mans heating
apparatus than IL 1T were web or
gossamer. But they go on fighting
just tie same
Believe IN Commander.
With all their hardships, these
troops have confidence in their com
mander. Mai Cen Edmund Ironside,
q veteran Of several British cam
paigns- and a six f0otgr physically,
who spends more time at the front
than az 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 OF five days over
snow trails, sleep on the cold, hard
floors OF peasant cottages at night
in an atmosphere so thick that one
couldn't even pour it, and then 70
fight all day in Is below zero tenn
perature, has been more or less rou-
tine for the Yanks up here. They have
fought with signal bravery. when
greatly outnumbered, and when sup
port because Of the weather condi-
tions or the trials, failed to reach
them Nearly two score OF the
Americans wear British or French
gibbons for bravery in action against
the BolshevikL and more decorations
are on the way.
Grumble. But go on.
The Xanks have gone on, day BY
day. grumbling but smiling about
their hardships They're not ex-
traordinarily fascinated by the Rus
sian "Barlshnas,' or young girls, and
have a Yankee contempt for males
who wear whiskers and kiss each
other in the streets and speak Jaw
breaking, foreign language. They
want to go home as soon as they can.
and. 20 them. il seems that all Uncle
sam has TO do TO get them home
quickly is to send up a lot OF regulars
and marines and finish the Bolsheviki
quickly.
The point Of view OF some OF the
American officers is illustrated by the
IaIaa nn
ISOLATED Press correspondent
I'll" he said, when he arrived
here with other American reinforce
uents last september. there isn't any
justice, no justice at all the war IS
training at home at Camp Custer Tor
months and months to fight the Ger
mans And then they send us up here
TO Russia. to guard stores, i suppose I
The Bolsheviki cant fight any way.
for they're nothing but an organized
rabble. We wanted 70 fight; we didn't
ion the army TO watch these Rus
SINS revolute-"
No Justice ut All.
This winter. down in q snow covered (
little log hut. matched with bircn
boughs. on the front ] saw this same
young officer. half frozen despite MS
fur coat and Shackelton boots, as ne
waited at the field telephone while (
shrannel from Bolshevik guns was
bursting somewhere around u.s.
HI" he said. there isn't any
Justice no justice at all The war is Z
over in France and were still up IN I
these blankety blank frozen swamps, (
lighting. Why, do you know. I've had I
only two weeks relief since we landed
Seen fighting ever since
"Whew,H he calculated, as one Of
he shells burst q Bit close Getting I
;loser. Those Bolshy artillerymen /
certainly can shoot"