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Show by Bolsheviki when they were caught trying to escape to allied peaceful Russia. She said she had asked one woman, whose face and arms had been badly burned, what was the cause of it. She said the Bolsheviki had thrown her baby into the fire; she tried, to rescue It, but was pulled away, after receiving severe burns. Our Red Cross hospital at Kutka treated girls with their eyes burned out, their tongues cut, and lashes across their necks and faces. Such are examples of Bolshevik treatment of non-combatants who are moving toward Siberia, which was once a terror to Russians and now is a place of refuge. In this manner the revolution has reversed re-versed things Russian. While civilians are suffering in all the war zones, the Russians' hope is that Washington will not overlook their country coun-try and will not fail to insist upon treating" treat-ing" the Bolsheviki with the same sternness stern-ness as tho 'German military. Fail to Understand. From three weeks' observations throughout eastern Siberia and Manchuria Man-churia it is clearly evident that our neglect in not sending troops against the Bolsheviki cannot be understood by the Russians, who were led to believe that we would establish order immediately throughout Rut-sia. The success of the Czech o-Slovaks in maintaining peace in Siberia has made it a country where Russians now desire to live. It has also aroused the united antagonism of the Bolsheviki. who, :;e-COrdlng :;e-COrdlng to all reports, even of allied military mili-tary observers, are creating a largo amy to attack the Czechs. For the spring offensive of-fensive the Bolsheviki are reported to be training sixty divisions. Inasmuch as they consider themselves outside international law, they have shown no evidence of any interest In the present armistice talk. believing their war will continue until they have reconquered recon-quered Siberia. P'or this reason is appears ap-pears highly important that Wa shine ton should place the Bolsheviki in the German Ger-man military class and let the Russians know the allies licve not abandoned them. Land Turned Into Nation of Rovers With Insatiable Wanderlust. By CARL W. ACKEEMAN. (New York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) CHITA, Siberia, Nov. 9 (Delayed). In endless streams like caravans Russians are moving from European Russia to Siberia, Si-beria, seeking food and order. Russia has become a nation of rovers, with a wanderlust which carries tnfem through every obstacle, even tlie Bolshevik front, to where they know there is domestic peace, because reports of the maintenance mainte-nance of order by the allies hr.s spread behind the Bolshevik lines despite the Muscovite propaganda. Although the ailled military forces arc not moving townrd Kuropean Russia, the citie,s'of that country are moving toward the allies. Chita has been famous because be-cause it was the ancient junction of caravan routes. Today it is a new junction junc-tion for hundreds of thousands . of refit-gees refit-gees truveling in box ears and on oxen to escape persecution, staiva-tion staiva-tion or death at the hands of the Bolsheviki. Bol-sheviki. In a week's travel through eastern Siberia Si-beria and Manchuria, almost to Iakc Baikal, I have seen an almost seemingly seeming-ly endless stream of Serbs. Rumanians and Russians, drifting into Siberia penniless, pen-niless, dirty and hungrv. 4 In a Manchurian city, seeing four girls sitting on sacks eating ra w fish and slide bread, i questioned them in German, to rind they had left Riga, m May and proceeded to Peirocnid :t-d Moscow, walking and ridinc behind the Bolshevik lines. ''Three weeks ago, accompanied by many hundreds of refugees, they erossed the lines near Perm and aie now en route to Vladivostok. Cruelties Worse. Catherine Ester, an American Red Cross nurse now aboard our special train, has been caring (or refugee. She states that the Bolsnevik cruelties are worse than the Armenian massacres. She attended refugee women whose arms had been broken one to three times, whose backs wre lined with whip scars and ' whose faces, arms and feet were burned |