The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-12
American Red Cross And CzeChS Dominate Modern
 Seaport Of Vladivostok
TYPHUS AND BOISHEVIKI HAVE BEEN COM- PLETELY ROUTED - SIBERIAN SEAPORT
 WITH FOURFOLD POPULATION IS AT
 PRESENT VERY BADLY CONGESTED

disease and suffering. Its work has just begun and will need to be ex tended as Russia proper is brought within the area of order. It will be needed for years yet until the forces of Russia have been organized and Russian Red Cross Is able to take its place. This Is one of the things that should have consideration at once in the work of reconstruction, and the men here are too busy to give 1t much attention.
 The most picturesque feature of Nladivostok is the Czech soldiers, two shiploads of whom, chiefly invalid is, have already sailed for San Fran cisco. Russian islands, nearly thirty miles long, with it's graceful hills covered with trees and wild flowers with its winding river-like bays is the home of thousands of these Czech soldiers. They are waiting with long ing hearts for ships to take them home. They live In Russian bar racks that are visible everywhere, and belong to the past dreams of Russia. Forty-five minutes from the Vladivostok wharf, where the Brit ish battle cruiser Kent of Falkland fame Is lying, takes you across the bay, in a Czech launch that runs daily to their pier on the island In five minutes you reach the first of the barracks, and along the road you hear ''Nazdhar," the Czech saluta- tion, as ''Uncle'' Krupar from Rich mond, Va, a devoted secretary, leads the way. As each barrack is enter ed the heroes of the great Siberia march press forward and "Nazdhar' rings out on all sides. These men have made their mark and they ali taar marks in consequence. You can still feel the bullets in some of them.
 There is a large percentage of edu- cated men, professional men, lawyers, doctors, Clergymen, teachers, and even actors, among them. You get from them glimpses of the long four years of battling, marching, prison camps, and then the concentration to cross Siberia and fight in France.
 One young soldier, an electrician. tells you of the beautiful summer day on July 26, 1914, when his native town near Prague, dressed in all the Gayety of St. Anna's day, was sud denly stunned with orders for mobili- Zation. Since that day he has not had a word from his home. Another tells you of the prison camps in Rus sia. where he worked from dawn till sunset in all weathers with nothing but fish soup three times a day. A third, an actor from Prague, tells you how they scrapped the Bolsheviki with ., few hand grenades and cap tured complete equipment and how General Gaida and his army outwit- ted and destroyed the Bolsheviki at Lake Baikal, capturing sixty four trainloads of them.
 One thing impresses you, standing among these men, and that Is that the Czechs saved Siberia and Siberia will save Russia. Their vanguard took just sixty minutes to settle who was master in Vladivostok Fifty thousand of their comrades are still guarding the Transiberian road be- tween Irkutsk and Omsk. It was a costly day for the Lenine regime when it consented to betray them to the Germans.
 They have organized a day school for refugee children In their vicinity, and three of their number aided by a Czech kindergartner, are the teach CTS. without any salary reward. On June IS a delegation of friends, in cluding a number of Czech nurses from New York and Chicago, on their way to Onsk attended Urea | given to the children of this school by the children of New York Daily Vacation Bible Schools of the Inter- national Asso The news that New York children were interested in them spread quickly and touched the hearts of these Czech soldiers They arranged a great gathering for the evening in their assembly hall, attended by 1000 men, and after a program by their own orchestra pre- sented g, new Czecho- -Slovakia flag to the children of New York schools with an inscription on it conveying their appreciation. There was mili- tary precision about the ceremony; and the presentation speech made by one Of the officers would have gone to the heart of every New York child Everywhere among these men there is love for America. The captain of the regiment in an address he gave voiced the feeling. If we had shoes on our feet, clothes on our back and even teeth in our mouth, we owed t | to America"