Show SIBERIA IS LIKE I MEXICO 0 E VILLA PEGGY SAYS YS l By Peggy Hull HullE NI E E. E As A.'s Woman War Var Correspondent Covering Siberia and Russia forI forThe for The Tho Telegram I pi L i Siberia There Th There rc l have a n been two governments so since I Hied hed In Siberia I s arted d to write a i story about ala iho one which was In nor when 1 I landed antI and before I could finish It the hc three throe directors had hadI Pr I 4 been heen arrested by a a- a who thou thought ht he could coul run It better hetter himself I f r. r It J is useless to ake an nn at at prediction Whether K i 4 will still Mill bo ho the erro ruler as h ho he o 4 alls ails e 01 ur whether there be lie nure supreme rulers n II quick quilk MI i c lun tun I cannot say fa kf 1 JUST LIKE MEXICO c y The present situation 1 Is so io nearly Identical with the tho Hun ladero t i days in ht Mexico that I am constantly in i minded of that tragic period There Theio Is oven even another Villa over h here rc These patriots spring front from all nil revolutions evolutions i AI Like lake Villa illa l Kalm has enjoyed oil the friendship of or the them m n ans an and other allied troops Hoops Ho lie was admired for 01 Iq his iv Il ability to tu organize and anft lea lead an aimy army Ills spectacular my irmy career anti his he youth he Is S won won for him the I I of th the allied officers in Vladivostok Hut almI fr like Villa illa a again aln lost his head with i rf r. r lie Ill took tool his HI army my and went Into the country count north of oC Vladivostok He lie raided e villages village und and indiscriminately arrested civilian on political charges If IC ho he heard that that someone had criticised him or di didn't nt approve o of his methods s ho sent senta a squad of or C Cossacks after the man and he was shot without a trial r 4 In Id one t village rounded up a number of or civilians and sentenced sentence them to death I tt tr t The wl 5 of C these the e c victims appealed to the commander of bf the Americans In In ln that district t i 1 Two of oC them traveled to this city and begged an Interview with Major Graves I i General G i The They wept and pleaded for d r husbands' husbands lives but hUt before tho general could get s-et In to communication with Kalm eleven of the men had been shot ahot and their bodies left where the they had fallen tolIen I I f f has had more a advantages vantages than Villa and ond there thero is less excuse for tor or his cruelty I i iII 1 I II The allies have ha promised the terrorized district n m end to his operations RAILROAD DISORDER WORSE i 1 I Up to lo the time that Admiral Kolchak an and his friends assembled in mk and ai rested arrested the dl 1 t ere were s some evidences of an attempt at orderliness Supply trains moved slowly moved to 10 be sure sure but but without the present difficulty The trip to 10 miles from here her takes lukes seventeen se diS days day's on a fast moving military train The Red ned Cross trains traits are twenty-one twenty sometimes the and the took look I and Imes thirty days das on road rondo since new government su charge but bUl one train of or British s has pone gone through I People nil all along till the line hue are arc dying there is no way to get set rell relief r to o them The o oo the railway service WA was bid bad enough before I Kolchak took charge but it t 1 practically lIy complete now If I He lie antagonized UK Cossi Cossick ck leader Semel orr b bv by ordering him to give Ive vp up P his command and w I wil S has been heen threatening to lea lead his troops against Kolchak he has been holding up all ali trains between here hel and a All the other fictions factions which had been suh subdued ud for COl awhile have sprung into life lite overnight and lawlessness prevails pre throughout the interior M I When I went to American headquarters headquarter an and asked for permission to go goJo IJ Jo the tho chief chiet of or staff refused saying that unless I went on a troop train I might be turned out at any station by bandits who were ral raiding alon along the railroad an and the tho American Amerle expeditionary force would never know what became br of me Which recalls once more the days when Villa rode rode and Pershing g chased h sed |