Show S S f- f Pacific So Soviets i t 5 O ONE NE of the most interesting conditions viewed from a safe distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance in connection with the prevailing soviet regime in Russia Russian n t is s the fact that the Soviets who have claimed from the thc beginning ng to tobe be the most pronounced pacifists have b built up uia upa a war machine that 5 ii ft- ft r is js believed to be the strongest armed mil t in in n existenceS existence e V U S' S This machine which comprises men and which has r r been victorious in three campaigns is considered to be the most post successful achievement of the B Bolshevik The h army first w was s developed develop d from poorly disciplined bodies of workmen who in in their undisciplined state s soon on bec became u unmanageable J Thespian fhe lan then wis was f adopted of f building up a reg regular lar army fm of proletarian n v volunteers ers who who I le ted their own officers f S This plan pla in tur turn failed tailed and then the te sovi soviet l leaders as as a ar r Hast dast resort engaged the services of the despised officers of the late I I I czars czar's detested military organization with the result that Russia Russ a today possesses an army that is a real menace enace to the re remainder of 5 Europe S S t. t According to authentic reports th the bulk of f th the soviet army k consists i cori i ts of of f peasants who serve because they are told that there here is no iio other way of preventing their land from being returned to its it's 1 former owners while join the ranks because it is f r da dangerous rous to resi resist t and by becoming soldiers soldiers soldiers' it is more o e easy easy to obtain food for themselves and families f. f ri The formation of such a powerful military n for forS jJ S Rus Russia a is only another demonstration of the manner in which which o ofte by by one ohe the various dreamy theories of the have been discarded or changed s so ln materially that th the people generally of III that country have fewer rights than were ere accorded th them m under th the V czars czar's autocratic government S 1 |