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Show RUSSIAN PEASANTS CLING TO ALLIES Looking for Order and Tranquillity After a Long Reign of Bolshevik Bolshe-vik Terror.- WTTr-T THE AMERICAN FORCES N NORTHERN RTS8IA, Oct. .".0. (Correspondence (Corre-spondence of the Associated Press.) Russian peasants in this district arc glad to bo freed from Bolshevik rule. "The Bolsheviki promised us that we vsould have land and peace and plenty," one stu nly old man fhM to the AbW-oiated AbW-oiated Press correspondent, "but wo soon learned what was their real t heorw H was just this: Tonight I go over and steal our cow and tomorrow night you come I jack and nit my throat and steal it back.' " 'Die peasants here ore now set Hipp down to what they hope will be order and I tranquillity afler a long reign of Bolshevik Bolshe-vik terror. I All alonu' the roadf here nun finds. In the evenings, peasants walking hack to 1 their houses with iiulo bags of food pivm . t hem by the allies. Now a nd then 1 1 iv are gtvn a. can of jam, a lu.Nury even for the rich in Russia now. In fin') vMlaue. which th allies had not yet ha d time 1 o rea eh with their food supplies, thf lorresnondpnt found hup peasant family fating swan, which they df a .-rlhed as ec.'edincly touch. "It was a sa'-i-ed bird with us before." one of tne peasants apologized, "out. w have no mat and Jh-v R-lsbeviki KiUr-.-J the fish in our lake wiih bombs from ihcir aii'plancs."' The peasants a ;e working wUhnelv under un-der the kind t r'-a i : , iet, i of RritlMi and American Russian-sneaking soldiers. Thev are very c'ad to build an aMation field, cutting down nmiy acrr-s of their tbi'i; timber, beea-iso rhry were told the fjr-id would b theits for cultivation after ihc immpaicn. |