Show tuss SOLDIERS r FREED BY HUN h 4 DIE ON HIGHWAY Prisoners Totter Into I Hungry Homeland Wrecked ri cole c 1 b by T Radicals London Jan 4 England England's welcome 1 her s starved and nd ailing prisoners re ret res re- re t t ning from Germany Is In striking to tho the Indifference with which vies Russia receives cs the hundreds ol ot of ot emaciated forlorn soldiers rs w the tho Russian arm army that arc aro ling HnS' back Into their ruined homeland is la practically foodless and fuel fuel- 53 33 53 snow-bound snow and In tho throes of ot fO ro weather tempered b by only four tour fourr r r i five hours of or sunshine md's king Icing and queen have havo rooted reeled man many of or tho returning prison prison- rs 9 ra Hundreds of or patriotic societies 8 avo ivo vo committees of or loyal loal women on one ono b o e docks where the exiles land to them theme with warm drinks and rood cod and express the gratitude of or tho the atlon for their sacrifice sell on be- be alf alt of ot tho entente cause Bands play 6 d familiar airs of ot tho the homeland as ase e victims of or German prison hardI hard hard- r I again set their foot feet on British f Oil oll Flags FlaG line the streets and grateful grate grate- rul ful citizens cheer th tho returning I But But Its It's a J. J far different rent picture In Russia Dispatches from Oio o German Russo-German boundary announce that hat thou thousands u of or tho the consumptive and Disabled Russians released b by tho G Gor- Gor r- r M Insufficiently clothed and without with with- out fut ut foot food ar pro ATO dying along the highways high high- ways AYS aya of ot the once glorious empire of or c pie 0 S nee Ilea naff Ilag Waves Over Dl cn o C oThe The rh rod flag has replaced the emblem if f red white and blue stripes under tho the prisoners marched to bat battle battlo tIo ho he cause for tor which they fought t has hasen mien oen en disavowed by the BolshevIk Of- Of aro callous to the suffering om hunger and disease disease- and wholly voted to of efforts torts to perpetuate the tho treat feat political experiment they Munched launched a year ago From week to week th the outlook has gradually grown rown worse WorEe Food has esmo e- e mo 10 scarcer Coal and oil aro are not Spanish sickness has lias In- In the disorganization disorganisation Premier has Issued orders to border order nets viets that thc they must hotter better phys ral for tor the tho returning soldiers ut t tho food tood supply Is eo so limited and fe is ie so 80 hard for tor all the population In Russia that even If It officials r ere r Inclined to heed tho mandates the l the Bolshevik premier they ly would bo be helpless because o of the ter lack of ot supplies and Indifference t t. the great mass of ot red supporters The iThe American Young liens Men's Christian and the tho American Red i rots rois attempted for tor months to soften Botton I le e return of ot Russian prisoners to their homeland Receiving camps made mad b these ere sanitary by ons simple foodstuffs wore were provided were placed on hospital trains i clean olean them up and and I mes wore were supplied to patients who t I here ere bIo able to sit up Moreover er teach- teach re fl ri placed laced In mari marry many receiving hospitals offered instruction In in- in lines and taught Illiterate printers prin era to road I MOSCOW i Dote ola Drive Out Mercy cr ere Men fen I I put ut the fhe he Bolshevik govern government ont hinr hin- hin I r red ired ed this work systematically and 1 Tally ally stopped It entire entirely Officers I the Young fens Men's Christian asso- asso fion were arrested and Imprisoned mo o of or the tho prominent Bolshevik ob- ob violently to tho the association ben toc- toc n use It had Christian In Us its name h ors irS rs held that both the tho American I d id Cross and the American Young 1 tn's yn's Christian association should bo te I rented from tram doing anything which i iI my ht win favor avor for the United toiled States I jong ons Russians I 1 dI |