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Show Red Propagandists Follow In Wake of Russian Army Editor's Note The first foreign for-eign corToopondot ever girea aa inside view ef the red army aa the aaareh, Meivta K. White-leather White-leather ef the Berlin bursas ef the Associated Fieas, tells here hew soviet Bneala Is aakiag ever eastern Feiaad. By MELVIN K. VVHITIXEATHU BREST-LTrOVSK. Ruasls, Oct 2 ufA Soviet Russia Is communtx-Ing communtx-Ing eastern Poland as fast aa the red army advances into the partitioned par-titioned Polish state. Supported by truckloada of communist com-munist literature and large pictures pic-tures of Joseph Stalin, communism is being brought nearer central Europe. One of nasi Germany's favorite pieces of strategy is to send soup kitchens behind the army in an effort to win over the population In occupied territories but the communist send propaganda trucks with the army and start right la converting the populace. Local governing committees 'are being set up, militias are being formed to police towns and villages vil-lages and factories are now In the workers' hands, with one Russian on each factory committee. Smaller Small-er workshops, however, have not been touched. The partition of large estates, of which there are many belonging to Polish noblemen, is expected to start soon. - The trucks carrying communist literature and Stalin's pictures halt at the towns and villas as to preach the Bolshevist gospel. I saw several of them during two and a half days aa the guest la thie section of the red army. During that visit I got a sidelight side-light aa Jta strength, Jluseta ap- peered to be pouring over 1,000,000 men with full equipment into eastern east-ern Poland. Wearing dust-colored uniforms, the communist troops are literally swarming over stony, dusty roads. They are marching day and night division after division, from the interior of Russia. The army looked as if It were three-fourths Asistic snd one-fourth one-fourth European. It waa western In its motor! aad heavy artillery. In the standardization of equipment equip-ment and plentiful modern antitank anti-tank suna. It appeared overwhelmingly Aai-atle Aai-atle In its tremendous manpower, preponderance of horses and sparse mechanization. Many pieces of mechanized equipment had broken down. Bad "roads some stony, some dusty-may dusty-may hava been responsible for this. , Militiamen with bayonets fixed on Russian rifles patrol the towns and villages. They wear red armbands. arm-bands. Food Is scarce and most stores are closed, but some open for a few hours dally. Long linos wait before them. In order to get one meal for IS persona at Bereza Kartuzka. the red army had to send aa automobile auto-mobile through surrounding vil-lax vil-lax as within a radius of six miles. Sausage was requisitioned -from J one village, tomatoes la another, 1 bread another, and cheese la the : fifth while IS waited. Hotels are dosed. Communist laborers' committees are working to get life back to , normal. Communist newspapers ; already are being prnlted In white Russian here, at WUna and at ' Baxanowicas. I |