The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-07
Doughboys
On the "Bolos"
BY Frank J. Taylor

UNITED Press Staff correspondent
NEW YORK, July American
douohbovs who fell into the hands of
the bolsheviks as war prisoners were
given an unwelcomed course OF lee
lures on bolshevism while in Moscow
The bolsheviks aimed TO convert the
Americans and send them home prim-
ed for agitation in America.
The plan failed, Judging from the
sentiments of five Americans who
were released in Moscow and allowed
TO leave at the request of the United
Press.
These men we're: Bryant R. Ryall,
Y. M. C. A. secretary, 345 Madison
avenue. New York City, who had been
in Russia before doing civilian rellet
work; Sergeant Glenn W. Lietzell'
Muffinburg, Pa, Privates Freeman
Hogan. 812 Caspar avenue, Detroit
.Jens Laursen, Marlett, Mich, and
John Triplett, Hindman, Ky. In ad-
| dition the party brought out Francis
S Linford, wounded English lad from
Sussex.
! All the Yanks were captured on
tho Archangel front. When the boil
sheviks surprised them by flank
u movement, the Yanks were passed
Il back from post to post until they ar
d rived in Moscow. They were strip
IS ned of practically everything, includ-
:. ing clothes.
Some of them had almost entirely
Russian uniforms The bolsheviks had
= particularly keen eye for Amerl-
can 80. D." equipment, especially
shirts. AL of the Americans had boil
sheyik overcoats, their own having
been stolen.
- In Moscow the Americans were CIV
nfairly clean and decent quarters
hut were issued practically no 1000
so Red Cross fund and later money
from the Y. NJ. c. A., saved then
" from starvation. An American mes
~ was soon started. The five did thel
own marketing and prepared thel
II meals.
,e- They were allowed remarkapi
Of amount of freedom In Moscow, an
Nh could go about the city in daytime
i At special times they had to repor
" for lectures on bolshevism and Tn
r world revolution given by Russian
tn who had lived abroad and spoke Eng
- fish.
The bolsheviks did their best
ne convert the Yankees, who kept the
81 peace, and expressed no opinions unit
thew had crossed the border into FIJI
land. The doughboys were suppose
to be "ripe" for bolshevism' VINE
=. they left Russia.
lit To learn what impression Russia
holshevism had made upon the doug
bovs, the United Press corresponoe
rug ,skad them for their opinions, WIN
on they arrived at the internment can
to in Teriioki, where the Firms quare
the tine arrivals from Russia
'eg- Sergeant Leitzel said: "Ihey
eau not making any bolsheviks OF Anne
the can prisoners. They try to pres
by bolshevism to us, but it doesn't
der Thev'd take men who've got bra
10 who-ve accomplished something
n'iS ability and work, ana reduce them
pa the lowest level. Who's going
,oso stand for that!
p'ae ~ "They're a bunch of thieves
w robbers. The leaders are preach
that everyone ought to have the 81
OLA amount of money, but every lea
has a pile of rubles stuck away
.ates would knock your eye out. lhey
'cOtiC pblleVe IN JHe pAhiNAPAN ~
IS is at the front. What's yours Is NH
innate that's their creed"
court "Bolos" is the name the yam
phine on the Archangle front gave to
reof,, bolsheviks. Leitzell is an inteihe
ional spirited, red-headed American
re of oomo nv his decisive ideas regar
Sc of bolshevism as the result OF his
SUI hand experiences.
ly by Private Hogan is serious and
is not crate. He speaks little and IL
'anlng much. 'If America ever went
clslon' shevik like Moscow" he said'
drug make myself lone hand to stan
IN oo- against them. If you want to
oe re god bolshevik, you've got to
49,. GRUMPY and dirty. inc MAJOR
'"'''''' people in Russia wouldn't toler'
if it weren't for the fact they
.,.. -. starve to death if they oppose
Bolos."
Private Triplett, a rather eaS
for the inc youth, said, 81 think the obi