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Show DOUGHBOYS ENGAGED IH TMlifl Light Is Shed Upon th Condition Existing in Northern Russia, Little Polyglot Army Is Carrying the Fight to the Bolshevik Forces. (Note Throjpv:t the (V.nipa.jju in niTir.er Russir,. Tviiere Anieri-m soIHuth 1i;1p Touch Hi--' Iv.-KlieviL-i us comraJcH in a po I yiTt litt1 army of British. Vrcnej. rinsf inn. lYiCii ar plemMits of bix o!hrr 11:1 ( i-n; 1 i ! Us, 0 r-Tf spi'iiiji?nt of '.bo , ssAoia t(d Vtcfs. ilit hm-On.i hm-On.i rt pi-'", at A Tb: ngi'l. L'h rt forwa Mrd fTC"r,pv dir.pai.rhos rvrrJ'jiR the progress of th fisi'' ing. Tho coi-iv'deul rw b.i e ecot rja' bpverai ir tersnnc crtifW u.irrfll'ns rome c. th rfmarkriblf phases of f h( onnipain ami g'-'-trig illuminating tiitioliirbts c Hie u'lvriit uros n the Americans ;;nd thr uili-'fi in the far uorti: Subjoined is oac of his letters.) ARCHANGEL, April 0. (Corro spondenee of the Associated "Press.1) The tabloid warfare that the Americai doughboys and a miscellaneous col loo tioa of allies have beeii wagiug asm-the asm-the Bolshevikl up in Aurora Borcali land since the landing of an allied cor poral's guard at Archangel on August ' has had most of tho thrills of the bi; war in Fraucej with a few pet perils :U of its own. In the summer it was a ame of bush Tracking, boy scoutiup-. bide and see! and Indian fighting in the svampb. wit; the added attractiona of airplane; shrapnel, high explosives, trench root tars, guuhoats ana armored trains. In winter, wheu the. Ibcnnomete registers around 30 decrees below zerc it is something- like an Eskimo triba feud, the Eskimos being equipped witi all modern devices for putting thei opponents out of the combat. Doughboy Is Backbone. The allied north Russian expedition ary force, whose backbone is tnc an V doughboy, has been figbting during tin winter against double, or triple, 0 quadruple odds. These Yanks and Tom mies and poilus and half a dozen vari eties of Russians and Poles have beei scattered out in thin eolumus operating over a territory about as large as Ger many and colder than Medicine Hat 0 Moose Jaw. There were seven or eight of tbes columns and they branched out like palm leaf fan from its handle, whiel is Archangel, stretching far and wid-from wid-from the wastes of the Pechora rive on the shores of the Arctic ocean no very far from the Siberian bouudar to the scarcely less frozen country 0 Onega bay, west of Archangel, vher they connect with the Murmansk, 0 Kola, force. Each of these columns has penetrate inland, along railroad,, higbroad, rive or forest trail, into the territory of tbi Bolsheviki and. on most of them, Yank; have been at the far front, where tin trouble is thickest. And, as most o. the Americans who have met .lohu Bol , shevik face to face will tell you, a-a a-a troublemaker, John is active, especial ' ly when ho has one outnumbered am outgunned. Enemy Disappears. Back iu the early days of summer, bo fore they really knew very much abou it, tho powers that were who planner this expedition had a very poor opinion of the Bolsheviki 's lighting qualities When the original A rc li an gel expedi, tionary force, whu-b set sail from Murmansk, Mur-mansk, on Kola bay, tbis corporal', guard that was to successfully inAad-the inAad-the largest country iu the world con , sisted of 1400 men. ; Fifty American bluejackets from th' U. y. v"). Olympia, who were among thos Russian "Old Contemptibles, " were tbi. first to set their feet upon the doc ' at Archangel. When the allies lande1 . the Bolsheviki had gone. This original expedition of 1400 in ; eluded British sailors and marines-French marines-French soldiers and sailors, Aiwjrieai1: sailors, Russians, Poles and a scattering representation of six other nationalities eleven in all. It was all cluttered uj ; with officers. j There were two British generals, col; on els and lieutenant colonels galore, 1 ; horde of majors and great J locks o-captains o-captains tho idea being that one wouh . need plenty of officers to direct th i Russian forces which were eager!; awaiting to spring to arms. Most oi these officers are quite busy at olbei jobs, while they am still waiting fo ; tho Russians to spring. And the Ku,s siaus do not seem at all eager to do so Allies Outnumbered. , This force split itself up inlo tw 1 or three columns that set out lo take. Vologda, on the railroad, and Kotlasc on the Dvina. The Bolsheviki, it seem: w ere e pect i ng a much la ! ger hind in, l foree, and thrv scurried very fat a: first in the past t.iy months (if bar1' fighting in the swamps and miow tht entire north Russian expedition:) r force hasn 't goto nine b 1 a rt lici- t Itai this little expedition uf "Old Con I em pt, ibles" eut in two weeks, and at time it has been a hard fight to bold whai the originals took in ;i walk-away. When the Bol - he vi hi began ret real, ing, they expected to make a stand at Vologda. Instead, when they .found the allies w ere only a handful, and i na'.'e quately equipped, thry just turned around and fought u. The 've ben fighting us ever Mnce. and probably will keep ,ju fighting us until we gc: a force, of L-oiiiewiiere nearly equa number.-;. |