The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-14
ROI SHEVISTS PROVE
BEST PROPAGANDISTS
,,,,rr Ur.rNcd From trChanScl Re-
,cal- Methods Lmplnycd To
reach American soldiers
ORATORS TALK TO YANkS
t,,cryrnrC Is Distributed and Inter
p7,tcrs Translate Addresses
Made Ia Troops.

,uN YORK, April l3.-ArchanEel
,f,...s received today disclose how
VI. u.wian holshcviki spread their
r.ar rlrda among the American
r..r4 Fighting under tho northern
,rr.. The Associated Press has a
.,-- pundrn, with the allied forccs
DO, northern Russia throughout the
,r,rg campaign. His dispatches by
,urN. and mail have given the only
,..,.,.I accounts OF the activities OF
tho American forces. IN fact, he has
,.n.r.uI exclusively every skirmish
l.,yp,a the allies and the holshcvlk
,rr.,,, Ito also told exclusively the
s,.u. ~ the recent refusal Of tho
American Infantry company TO go To
,r. rnnl line trenches. later con
r,,.,I ~ General March. chief Of
..4t, ~ thc army
.,,.,r received today is plrticu-
.,r., timely since II throws clear
.r., un tho holshoylk methods which
General March discussed yesterday In
Nrg w.uhI. conferences with news
r.rl. ur,u. The letter which tells of
.ra N.snryIh propaganda. from the
fret efforts when ONcrtuios from the
crgu.r vcrc received with ridiCulc
dow. tu the moment when homesick-
nos. made sinc or the douhhhoys
moro receptive to the insidious ora
,a~. and literature. - aS follows.
NRClIANGEL February - That
The hoisncyikl are the worlds best
propirpndists was determined during
'ha long cold nights that occur I'm
his region. Down on the line OF the
highway 80 Hcirograd along which
are tt" graves of the Americans who
h,gc fallen and where the Yankees
hai been fighting for months around
aUlfIp rive house village called Ead-
sh me holshcyik orators showed
how expert they were In spreading
'he.~ Views Generally they talked
IN Russian, their speeches being
translated hv interpreters In the
American ranks.
Occasionally they sent 10 Petro-
grad ani got some cN American i'm
migrant TO give lecture IN English
ON tho reasons for bolshcviam 10
more or less interested doughbovs on
'hr outside OF no mans land. For
orE time when our lines on the
kad.sh sector were squared from the
ho.sheNiN only by "A 75- wide
stream. over which there was
wooden bridge which neither side
wished 10 destroy both figuring on
using It some day, almost nightly
there occurred a strange entertain
mcnt some times II was only a
monoloCue. in which "A holshevik ora
Tor on one aide OF the stream would
loudly harranRue the Americans,
Sometimes II was n sort OF n duet. In
which the Americans would reply
with 'ran that stuff" whats eating
you'" and other similar American
express
Ink to Officers.
There were formal state occasions
when holsheyik officer would cry
,ut from the dark that no wanted TO
yak 70 an American officer. A lieu
tenant or captain would go down
'o the middle OF the bridge TO meet
him The American officer would
take his Interpreter with him and the
.hrpc would stand out In the cold or
rain
These conferences usually began
Win the mutual inquiries about the
s1'c NJ health Of prisoners held by
The respective forces and ended with
me h0lshrNik officers kindly rc-
quCsI0g that an arm load Of bolshc-
Nk printed propaganda he handed TO
NJ" American troops Perhaps this
vas against the rules OF warfare. but
'ho American officers. generally
speaking could see no objection to Il,
as hoy were much in need Of paper
and 'he propaganda helped keep the
troops hhnpN The Nnnks would /
laugh an night nt it and then GO out
ana fight in better humor the next
day
In Tho printed propaganda, most OF
which hy tho way. either bears the
signature ~ an English Journalist
Who has Joined the bolshcvik admin
Hra'iuu I'm Moscow or shows tho
shandiwDrk ~ some Russian journal
lists who once worked In New NOrk1
great stress Ia put upon the claim
hat'ho holshcWkI are working men,
'ghunc against the capitalists OF the
world. and inviting the Americans to |
come and iOin them