Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-06 | Page 5 | Russian Trains Well Guarded Against Yeggs

RUSSIAN TRAINS PI WELL ELL GUARDED AGAINST Jan 6 All AP-All railroad railroad rail rail- road trains on the principal routes In soviet Russia are now heavily armed aImed due to the alarming Increase in banditry despite the death p penalty pen pen- n- n aIt alty for that offense On a train in which the correspondent correspondent corre- corre traveled from Moscow to each passenger coach and the I I locomotive bore detachments of armed soldiers There were also groups of soldiers at every railroad station read ready for an any emergency In spite of the holdups railroad travel in Russia is steadily ing Clean and comfortable trains with int sleeping cars and well appointed dining cars run every day between Moscow l and the European capitals There Is also express service twice a week between between be- be tween Moscow and Vladivostok The traveler may go from London to Peking via Moscow in a fortI fortnight fort fort- night without change I The average running time of the more important trains is virtually vir- vir on a prewar basis Fares are lower than in most continental countries The passenger coaches are usually well heated lighted and furnished and the restaurant cars afford good g f od at modest prices Americans usually find the bad ventilation in the passenger cars the chief source of complaint