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Show WMIi lUJpUE Bolsheviki Unable to Realize Real-ize How Yankees Do Tasks So Quickly. SOEOKA, RUSSIAN LAPLAND, July 30, via London, Aug. 10. (Correspondence (Cor-respondence of the Associated Press.) Pushing forward daily into territory of the Bolsheviki, and often under lire, the American railway troops on tho Murman front in two months transformed trans-formed seventy-five miles of dynamited and burned' bridges and railways, wrecked and destroyed by retreating Bolsheviki, into a workable railway which they manned, operated and maintained. To these troops the British command gives much of the credit of the scv-euty-five-mile advance toward Petrozavodsk. Petro-zavodsk. In the contingent were thirty-six officers- and 675 men, comprising the 167th and 16Sth companies of railway rail-way troops, as a special battalion under Major E. E. MacMoreland, of Kansas City, Mo., and every kind of railroader from a superintendent to a section hand. The Yanks -worked so fast, in fact, that the Bolsheviki, according to prisoners pris-oners taken, believed that they had miraculous machines for track laying and adjustable bridges, which they dropped in as they went along. It was all done by a gang under Captain C. J. Jones, of Paterson, N. J., who in Alaskan Alas-kan and Latin-American jobs was nicknamed nick-named "Hurry-Up .Tones." The men worked seventeen hours daily with the enemy right ahead, and the British artillery ar-tillery right behind awaiting construction.' construc-tion.' There were also battles and skirmishes skir-mishes in many small sidings, where on several occasions the constructors and. also the train's crews were under fire. On June 19, while 'building a bridge under shrapnel fire, the Yanks were surrounded sur-rounded by Bolsheviki skipping through the woods and dynamiting the bridge three versts in the rear. On the way back to repair the bridge the Yanks were again attacked at close range, but managed to escape. The shop detachment, uii'lcr Captain C. E. McMillan, of South America and Panama, formerly of Omaha, had to transform junk-pile equipment into workable rolling stock. Then the Y'anks, under Captain H. G. Odell, former assistant and superintendent superinten-dent at Santa Fe, . M., built and operated oper-ated eight miles of street railway in Murman. Under Lieutenant Charles B. Tuttle they operated and manned an armored train. Railroad men who formerly drew high pay in Boston, Pittsburg or Indiana also shared in making these railway enterprises a Yankee success. |