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Show AMERICAN CAPITAL IS GREAT AID TO RUSSIA Building of Locomotives and Construction Construc-tion of Railway Lines Have Been Big Help. PARIS, May 26. A letter from an American engaged in the locomotive business in Petrograd to a colleague here reads: I will give you an idea of the work Americans and American capital are accomplishing in Russia, and how American railroad and locomotive builders have helped Russia to attain the success she has made in the Caucasus. Cau-casus. I have just returned from a two-months' two-months' trip there, to Tiflis and Sari-kamish, Sari-kamish, where some six-wheel switching locomotives, which have just been delivered, were being tested and tried out. The trip was very interesting, in-teresting, as I passed through some of the finest scenery in the Caucasus en route to Sarikamish, which is 7000 feet above the sea. This is the place where. In 1915, the Russians so decisively defeated the Turks and immediately after-.ward after-.ward advanced on and took Erze-'"rum. Erze-'"rum. Our railway, built by American engineers and for the most part with American materials, runs now directly direct-ly from Sarikamish to Erzerum, and it is only after seeing the country that one can realize the difficulty of the advance, especially in winter. Writers say that every tribe that Invaded Europe from Asia In the early days left a "sample" in the Caucasus, and that there are more different races represented there than in any equal area in the world. They have most of them stayed in the same state of civilization as when they arrived (in the same state of dirt, too, I should say). How greatly our railroad and engines en-gines have aided the Russian advance ad-vance perhaps only a military or railroad rail-road man can appreciate, but it has enabled them to throw fresh divisions Into the actual fighting front, to say nothing of revictualing their entire army, which is now doing such splendid splen-did work out there. |