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Show THANKLESS RUSSIANS. A systematic campaign against the United States is in progress in Siberia-because Siberia-because this country has not sent more troops to that region and for the further fur-ther alleged reason that the Americans now over there have not been energetically energeti-cally engaged in wiping out the BoUhe-viki BoUhe-viki element. Tbe Japanese, British and Krench arc praised, but the Americans Ameri-cans are a- vuseil of being friends of the ii'ilslicviMs. Reassurances by Major 'ieiieral W i!li;tin S. Graves, who commands com-mands flic American expeditionary fnr-'e in siiieria, have not been effective, and the general himself has been dubbed a pro-Bolshevist. Brigadier General Styer has been explaining the American position to the Russian newspapers, apparently ap-parently without accomplishing any good. Among the Russian troops and villagers along the railways sullenness and unfriendliness are now noticeable. Such a state of feeling did not exist a month ago. General Graves does not believe that all the Russians under arms in eastern Siberia are Bolshevists, for it is generally known that the Cossacks Cos-sacks have been harrying the peasants for mouths past. Pretending to be searching for Bolshevists, the Cossack troops have raided villages iu the countryside, coun-tryside, murdering and imprisoning men and beating and maltreating women. These soldiers are just as bad as the Bolshevists and tho allied troops have nothing in common with them. So far as the propaganda against the Americans Ameri-cans is concerned, we doubt if it will have any lasting effect, although it is unpleasant to think that we are being maligned and misinterpreted wlien we have been going out of our way in an attempt to set Russia upon its feet. |