Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-25
ALLIES IN NORTH
RUSSIA FIGHT
AGAINST ODDS
Troops Feel Greatly I'm
posed Upon BY Their
Governments.

Archangel, May 23.--The Russo
Allied force which has been conduct
ing the campaign against the bolshe-
wiki in this far northern region has
been outnumbered by the enemy ev-
erywhere from two to 10 to one.
What they lack in numbers, this
force makes up in pluck, the pluck
that makes them stick tight under at
tacks 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
of their inability to make up their
minds as to what should be done in
Russia
They grumble because they're
here, and at the mistakes made by
those at home and in Archangel who
sometimes don't exactly understand
doughboy or British Tommie who is
sitting in the snow in frozen trench
with a heavy fur coat makes no more
impression on mans heating ap-
paratus than if it were 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 Edmund Iron
side, veteran of several British cam
paigns, and six-footer physically
who spends more time at the front
than at headquarters in Archangel.
Thew know the general is looking out
for them but they don't feel the same
way about the folks at home.
i To march for four of five DAYS over
a snow trial, 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 to
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
because of the weather con-
ditions or the trials, failed to reach
them. Nearly two score of the Ameri-
cans wear British or French ribbons
for bravery in action against the boil
shevilli, and more decorations are on
the way.
Dislike Natives.
The Yanks have gone on, day by
day, grumblng but smiling about
their hardships. they're not extra
ordinarily fascinated by the Russian
'barishmas" or young girls, and
have Yankee contempt for males
who wear whiskers and kiss each 9TH
err in the streets and speak jaw
ly1pm fp~o.~n Thoxy
want to go home as soon as they can,
and, to them, it seems that all Uncle
Sam has to do to get them home
quickly is to send up lot of regulars
and marines and finish the bolsheviki |
quickly.
The point of view of some of the
American officers is illustrated by
the remarks of one of them to The
Associated Press correspondent.
HI he said, when he arrived
here with other American reinforce
ments last September. there isn't
any justice, not justice at all. We've
been training at home at Camp Gus
;er for months and months to fight |
the Germans. And then they send us
up here to Russia, to guard stores,
suppose. The holsheviki can't fight,
any way. for they're nothing but an
rabble. We wanted to fight:
we didn't Join the army to watch
these Russians revolute."
This winter down in a snow-coveA-
ed little, log hut. matched with birch
boughs on the front. saw this same
Young officer, half frozen despite his
fur coat and Shackelton boots, as he
waited at the field telephone while
shrapnel from bolshevik guns was
BURSTING somewhere around us.
HI he said, "there isn't any
justice, no justice at all. The war is
over in France and we're still up in
these blankety- blank frozen swamps
fighting. WHY do you know, I've had
only two weeks relief since we land
ed. Been fighting ever since"
"Whew," he calculated, as one of
the shells burst bit close, getting
closer, Those bolshy artillerymen
certainly can shoot"
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