The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-23
REDS OUTNUMBER
 ALLIES 10 TO 1.

Archangel, April 2s.---(Correspond- fence of The Associated Press )---The Russo-Alned force which has been conducting the campaign against the Bolsheviki in this far northern region has been outnumabered by the enemy everywhere from two to ten to one. l What they lack in numbers, this force makes up in pluck, the pluck l that makes them stick tight under attacks by superior forces, although they have not much interest in the Russian question and feel, candidly I 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 some | times don't exactly understand the disposition of a homesick Yankee doughboy or British Tomm1e who is sitting in the snow in a, frozen trench I where a heavy fur coat makes no more impression on a mans heating apparatus than if 1t were g. 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 l side, Q veteran of several British | campaigns, antd @ six-footer physi- | cally who spends more time at the front than at headquarters in Arch | angel They know the general is | looking out for theme but they don't
 feel the same way about the folks at
 home.
 To march for four or five days over
 snow trails. sleep on the cold, hard | floors of peasant cottages at night in l an atmosphere so thick that one | couldn't even pour it. and then to | fight all day in IS below zero temper l ature, has been more or less routine | for the Tanks up here. They have fought with signal bravery, when
 greatly outnumbered, and when sup
 port. because of the weather condi- | tions or the trails, failed to reach | them. Nearly two score of the Amer | jeans wear British or French ribbons
 for bravery in action against the Bol- I sheviki. and more decorations are on the waJyl
 The Tanks have gone on, day by | uay, grunfbling but smiling about their hardships. They're not extra ordinarily fascinated by the Russian
 ''Barishnas.". or young girls. and have Ia Yankee contempt for males who wear whiskers and kiss each other in the streets and speak jawbre aking, foreign language. They 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 mp a lot of regulars and
 marines and finish the Bolsheviki
 quickly.
 The point of view of some of the l American officers is illustrated by the
 remarks of one of them to The As isociated Press correspondent.
 "H---l," he said, when he arrived
 here with other American reinforce
 ments last September, there isn't any
 justice, no justice at all. We've been training at home at Camp Custer for
 months and months to fight the Ger
 mans. And then they send us up
 here to Russia to guard stores, suppose. The Bolsheviki can't fight
 any way, for they're nothing but an
 organized rabble. We wanted to fight; we didn't join the army to
 watch these Russians revolute"
 This winter down in a snow-cov- cred little log hut thatchd with birch iboughs, on the front I saw this same
 young officer, haIf-frozen despite his
 fur coat and Shaclleton boots, as he
 waited at the field telephone while Esh1'apnel from Bolshevik guns was bursting somewhere around us.
 1 "H---l,' 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, l 1ghtng. Why, do you know, I've only had two weeks relief since we Handed. Been fighting ever since" Whew!" he ejaculated, as one of
 the shells burst bit close, getting lcloser. Those Bolshy artilIermen Icertain1y can shoot"