The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-05-09
MINUTE Men AID '
ALLIES IN RUSSIA
Peasants Without Uniforms Give
Valuable Assistance to Inter: /.
national krESeautee
NAIL ALLIES As RESCUEks
In Nearly Every Attack Made on
Enemy These Partisans Go Ahead
Of or Along the Flanks Look
inu for Pot Shot.

With the Americans on the North
Russian Front.-In this international
army, which is fighting numerically
superior bolsheviI 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, and the
first minute men of the American rev.
olution for the protection Of their
firesideS.
They are peasants, bearded OF
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 patIf'
otically that the government Of north
eln Russia is beginning TO look upon
them as the keystone on which to
build n Russian state that will be free
from holshevism.
Hail Allies as RescusFs.
These peasants have known the raw.
ages Of holShovk troops In their vig,
lagos. They have seen friends exes
cured for GntlhOlShevik actiyitieSs
They hail the allies as rescners. II
nearly every attack the regular troop
make against the enemy one finds
these armed partisanS, crack shots, go I
ing ahead of or along the tanks oi
the Americans. British, French and
trimmed, uniformed Russians to scQo
q path or take pot shot at the enc
The point of view Of these peas
is this: The army has not vet bee
ganized: we are robbed and i'll tx
by lie bOlsheviki; therefore we zsaa
10 defend ourselves. The peasaiSSSae
The KhOlmogory district, along the
Dwina river, have been fighting for
four months. Military authorities say
they do their work as cheerfully and
efficiently as regular soldiers. The
ced guards are helpless against the re-
VOTED population. I'LL
The appearance of peasants tightlngl
voluntarily against Trotzky's forces
l has a dcmoraizing effect upon Il
5olsheviki, as it dsabuses the min
of some of them of the theory tb
they are being opposed only by ii
2erialists."
Scout Lik4 Animals. II
The bartisans ID NOW that if they
nptured they wall be shot
knowing the fordst country as
dwelle?$ know their own streets,
are seldom captured. In scouting
are as tireless as wild animals.
The government of the n0rthi
long. time did nothing to help tn
tisaps, but now that their usefi
Is Recognized they and their fa
are provisioned as If they were
Lao soldiers. In December big
CATION of partisaH went to Archi
and, according II tho local ne
pers, this new ;ItpArition stirrp
all the classes q population
town"
1t became CLEAR aat sound 9
Z ton from anafchk toward patriH.
had taken place Ikmong the peol
that the efforts Of the partisans
though of local character, nPust b.
su, ported, and tn 1T it was absolutel,
necessary to create p suitable satmOs
phere for further organization Of par
tisan detachmentS A big COMMITTEES
including all poit gal parties, has bee
formed in Archar bel to aid this plaI
and new partis,IA newspaper Is to :
published for the benefit of the figh
ing peasants.