Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-20
HAIL ALLIES As REscuERs
In Nearly Every Attack Made on
Enemy These Partlsans Go Ahead
Of or Along the FIanks Look
ing for Pot Shot.

With the Americans on he North
Russian Front.-ln this internationa
army, which Is fighting numerically
superior b~olsheyik forces In north
Russia, there are, mingled with the
half dozen or so varieties Of uniforms.
men who wear no uniforms at all.
They fight, as did the francs tireurs
In the Franco-Prussian war, inc the
first minute men of the American rev.
oIutlon, for the protection OF their
flresides.
They are peasants, bearded or
~beardless, with nothing to distinguish
them from the thousands OF other
peasants living around them but their
guns and cartridge belts. They are
the irregular or partisan" troops.
and the sentiments they are showing
and fighting for In this wilderness OF
snow and pine trees loom up so patri'
otically that the government Of north'
ern Russia Is beginning to look upon
them as the keystone on which to
build a Russian state that will be free
from bolshovism.
Hail Allies as Rescuera
These peasants have known the raw
ages of bolshevik troops in their viii
lagos. They have seen friends exc
cuted for antibolshevik activities.
They hail the allies as In
nearly every attack the regular troops
make against the enemy n finds
these armed partisans, crack shots. 60
ing ahead Of or along the TANKS OF
the Americans, British. French and
trained. uniformed Russians to scout
d path or take a pot shot at the enemy.
The point Of view o. these peasants
is this: The army has not yet been or.
ganized; we are robbed and Ill treated
by the bolsheviki; therefore we have
to defend ourselves. The peasants In
the Kholmogory district, along the
Dwina river, have been fighting for
four months. Military authorities say,
they do their work al cheerfully and
efficiently as regular soldiers. The
red guards are helpless against the re-
volted population.
The appearance Of peasants fighting
voluntarily against Trotzky's forces
has a demoralizlng effect upon ths
bolsheviki, as it disabuses the minds
Of some Of them Of the theory that
they are being opposed only BY "im.
perialists."
Scout Like Animals.
The partisans know that IL they are
captured they will be shot. But.
knowing the forest country as city
jewellers know their own streets. they
are seldom cartured. In scouting they
are as tireless as wild animals.
The government Of the north for q
long time did nothing to help the par.
tisans, but now that their usefulness
is recognized they and their families
are provisioned as II they were regu.
lar soldiers. In December q big dele
cation Of partisans went to Archangel.
and, according to the local newspa.
pers. "this new apparition stirred up
all the classes Of population Of the
town."
It became clear that q sound evolus
ton from anarchy toward patriotism
had taken place among the people;
that the efforts Of the partisans,
though Of a-local character. must be
supported. and that 1t was absolutely
necessary to create a suitable atmoss
phere for further organization Of par
tisan detachments. A big committee.
including all political parties. has been
formed In Archangel to aid this plan.
and q now partisan newspaper Is to be
published for the benefit Of the Aghts
ing peasants.