| Show n Russian Russ n Soldiers Sold ers are le Martyrs l to Duty Duly II Two Thousand of or Them Have Ben Been Killed by in Western Europe Alona Alonia In the Last TV Two Years While Performing Uncongenial oniel onial Tasks T ss Assigned d to Them by Their Superior Officers e eST T Sept SDI I 2 lyca ST S a dag Aag tr a bad 4 nam end and y you tU u know mow the rest reel t The rM soldier lo I 1 In the dogs dog pi predicament yRea scent ment He tout has got OI a bad and It II seems me to stick slick to him hen True he lie ha hahl hat has hashie hl hi hie full fault But he hall baa also alao many grievances grievance The chief one oneil lire are re that he heban bas ban to do other people work ai iii l that the Revolutionists keep on king him lie Ile IB I 1 a target larget for tor the 1 lIt hat the Anarchist and the bandit Alike d e no nono 0 no wonder his hl hi temper r Is la J a el J W Within the put peat two years nearly 2000 of his hie comrades comrade have perished In western Europe alon mostly shot from rom b behind or ee bombed e And this without the excitement of at tattle buttle or orthe orthe the glories of ot war This huge hURe number of or victims does doell not mean that soldiers have bave b been boten en kill killed killed ed 11 at It the barricades during the not very ver numerous hand to 10 hand band light tights be between between H tween the military end and civilians I They have perished at et street Ml t corners cornera whilst doing pollee police duty whilst guarding gov government government spirit shops shop and discharging the thousand and one duties duttee dut which fall to 10 their thel lot during the th revolution The Russian soldier 1 I used for tor every ever kind of work that hut th l others other have refused refuNd to do doHe doII dolie He lie II replaces replace the th policeman maD the engine driver st avenger tr Many Man a time Ume would the Ih large Russian towns be without gas II or water were MI It II not n t for tor his hili taking the th place of those Iho on un strike hike and sup supplying supplying plying the tb community with these them two very necessary commodities GET OPT NO EXTRA PAY I Y The soldiers soldier get pt no extra pay for this work but as II a rule they th do 40 It cheerfully And nd yet et these theM men carry carr their live lives in their hands handa Often Onn as a athey they Ihy leave their work to 10 return to 10 tb the barracks barrack unarmed because on tea civil chit civilian II ian duty are shot hot in the back by 11 some of or the striker Nevertheless they th would rather do this work than IhAn escort mall carts carte or patrol the th streets Not a II w week wuk k p posses s s but tome some of the Ike government mall mail vans van vanere ere attacked by the Ute who carry IT oK off sums um of mon money y varying from two Iwu thousand to 10 halt half a million dollar killing and wounding the mili mUl military military tary lary escort cort c n and aDd getting tU oil off scott sott It free freewith freewith freewith with their booty boot The reason 1 Is that the b government has haa h so much work for forI forthe the I military that the escorts escort are or In Inadequate adequate The result rull I III victory fOrI tor fOr the I hll Terrorist Terrorists who carry arry on 0 theft guer truer Ilie III warfare with a hest et bora hots of oC un unbroken unbroken broken success uc ATTACK ON MAIL AIL VAN The Th following scene sene nf I Is only ollif too fre tre frequently tr enacted In Russian towns tow to 10 today today day The mall mail van escorted assorted by II sU sl I mounted soldiers Idler tarts starts for tor the tb ela a atlon loft In Its brad daylight dalt hl patting through several Mural busy buy str stroM U iud itte Iv denly nl the tho t h hears bar ars a nun signal il blown blow blown on an n a Ii trumpet ant AG betor Ih ley have time to look lo k around they the me are 1 set u uen iq en by some 30 20 or ur 40 men with tale rifles r and sometimes sometime with bombs bomb IB In Iho latter caM lite w struggle I is a short hort COI M iii tb tM the even eren if not blown blo up lose loee control I M or f their t l Trifled hors OM Os fI and a stampede e ensues dente uwe when bomb bombe are 1 not uel asel the elders are but smell small II as a II they are completely overwhelmed ov by b superior 1101 n n who have hav th the of ot not Dot being taken by bF sY The There re lutt ne never r attempt mn an n at al ator or of this thin kind kin without having at atM lest M fit t 30 SO man inch nid are aro ar therefore In 1 JI One sunk 1 d l lAck k out nut of rat many oc po occurred e at i It IL few IW days day hack back The mall van all was wai WIt going down on one of Gf the busiest bUllet streets Mi in en Its Ita way to the tha sta ste station ta tion when the o nil nary trumpet sig signal signal 1 nal wa was given v m n followed immediately by bi b a shower hor of bullets that Ihal rained rallied on the HO soldier Idlers and their hops horses rum mm all 11 Bides aides Two THO soldiers were killed and arId two to before r the th remaining t tw two o could l Uld open lire Th These were w over 01 overpowered pow poVO powered re l 1 by their assailant who shot hOI their way up to the Ih van tun an Whilst hUt some eom went on firing th t h others other 01 took out the be t money mOlley moue about K oon n made 4 off 0 under undercover co cover cor er of ot their thau comrade fire lire and were w never seen Keen 11 again egale Meanwhile the soldiers In th the I hi barrack barracks near by b he hearing the bote abol ran to 10 the spot pot to find that the members of the escort eort were WN either dead or r I wounded They The chased cha d the r m tin of oC UM u who took look refu refuge r in III an adjoining fac factory factory factory tory and shout shouting lr that they would a events their comrade n to lire fire wounding serero I some of off whom it bad had taken p part n rt in the tiu raid ONE Kl This Mill J vau t l all ail over 01 the world a all as an in lanOtt at of the brutal brutality ity It of oC Russian IoU and aad nothing was said 4 about bout tile the wounded escort cort orl or their dead comrades comrade only I oo one soldier out nut of ot the Ih six U i th the catastrophe he and h he is I maim mal maimed 4 for tor life lit ba only one leg Hw its wa was w Slot not wounded whilst on active service M se gt no RO government grant rant He Its If will 1111 have to III e beg bIS In the aut Attacker Attack of ot this thio kind hind hive have Increased to 10 such lIuch a dent i the heads head of ot re mettr M h Ice t protected against l nt their m being K 4 to b such ucb duty But Hut then Iw nol nobody ody IM to 10 do It and the protests protest prot m ere 11 led 4 In II mailer town lown ih Ib through which the mall Has IleS II to 10 MM are re closed dod for tor some same m time t It leava s the post pol Hut nul of 01 till this Is I quite an all Impossible pr pro c ng hi in large lairs center centrI and saki It ll I I In the th inge LIf ten that th the tho revolutionist i ki k their attacks attack at ka OTHER M 11 TRAP THAT Other death dalh i ip ipa for fa Of the th soldiers am are Ute the ind arld depot W tY large r u of ot gay are acs kept j J kI i scan scarcely Y v MI M l lIt station MUon in the Ih empire but has ball perm beMi raided at least ome OIW b by Of 0 course the soldiers who are sent In only oaty ot y small ema numbers number num and kept pear near the ticket of ot lice fall fail first victim they are al at alay Ways ay outnumbered and their uniforms uniform wake me a good teapot t amongst the crowd crow The railway depots depot have bavo done doDe mucH mock DI towards Oiling hung the th revolutionists cof cot fer fera thou those Ih pl being attacked on pay day dy when whom they are full of employ es who have hav come for their money mane INCIDENTS IN WAR AW A characteristic attack of this Ihla kind was made mad In Warsaw In the Diug street early oarl Kleff last une un Od asa sat SIaI stock and lid Kleff have aleo also been favored in this respect peet during dun the present mer to IQ say eay nothing C of ot depot depou In hl 81 dI berla and the Ibe where they arn am almost mot a dally occurrence The depot delOt In lit the th Dluga DI street I is located I ted In an old house houe approached approach by a and used as u a repository for lor the money on Its 1111 way to and from the Ih bank Once 01 1 a fortnight hundred hundreds of men nion employed employ In the state Itale railways rall crowd Into the building and ud await their wage Saws flome times time they Ihy overflow Into tuto the tile passages pau and arid on the tal HT W Bt 1 On th the tho morning of or the th attack a dork clerk was sent lien to the tho th bank for money He returned at 11 with Wilh 10 worth of o paper and gold In his hi charge He H was waa escorted by five ft soldiers soldier Idle They made their way through the crowd und lAnd had reached the tb landing leading to th the second ascend pair pall of ot stairs stair when whon the thos around them all aU began to dm from revolvers and quick hands bands tore the bag contain containing lag ing I the Ihl money from the clerk clerks grasp p The four tour soldiers aol Ser wore were re laid low before they could ua use their tbt tr rules rifles A similar fate fata mot met those thOM on duty In the wise who chased the man Dlan who made on off 0 with the th booty boot for tor or the former were attacked brom behind by b those waiting wafting on OD Ute the stairs stain and quite overpowered ON CROWD Meanwhile while two to soldiers on guard at atthe atthe the tb cashiers door thinking the men lDeR walling waiting there lb had had a hand In the work fired end II at them wounding two who ho had done don nothing but bul look on all As AI usual the raider II chr got ot off o with the booty boot after killing four soldiers s idlers and wounding throe three two of 01 whom wham died a few taw days day la In later Inter ter tOI It transpired afterwards afterward aft that It nobody no nobody body belonging to the railway had bad ben been n standing taneS on the tM landing whore where the at attack attack tack was wan made It had been crowded by byI terrorists I who slipped Upped Into the build building lag Inc unnoticed lo in the tile crowd that busy morning morn The curt clerk got pt away aay with his bis life One soldier Idler pursued the thu man who took the tb tong l b ag for tor quits quite a distance but tNt be he was finally shot by a revolution many ft if f whom are ue post posted U In III the tile street aw oR such u h occasions and as usual the u on onlooker onlooker onlookers looker lookers were w afraid to 10 catch h the thief The Polish party PArt of Socialists gave ave an a count account of the th attack In their paper pap r called R I the workman l that It wa was 11 their work nark and that thai thuy lie oy had killed so many WANT TO WIN Yet Tel ft the Ih Boi really Nally wont to In InIn wits In th tl the soldiers over to their side Hide Id They The try Iry to 10 do It II both by b propaganda and an terrorism when the be lint first fall fails the tb second l la to And nd the first gets gen generally dues dor fall tall for tor the toe average Rus Russian au sian soldier has ham but bYl little tute for fur revolution In some of 0 the artillery and sapper regiments socialistic agile utta agitation tion Un gets a hearing because uee the men are lust Just t sufficiently educated to 10 be attract attracted ed uti by the bombastic pamphlets pamphlet the agitators oration tier about the barrack rooms roam of ot the th empire but men mn who ho read these the things thing run the tb risk of heavy hea punishment and ud not many matl think the game I is III worth the he candle Another of ot my m Illustrations shows show two men of ot the tb guards parda stationed at al gel elo 10 th the coals c summer residence tear near Petersburg In this bill plight One of at I Ither their ther officers heard hd them talking revo revolution revolution lution In the barrack yard ard They were wre Immediately Imm deprived of their swords buttons button and shoulder straps and 4 marched off oar to 10 the station en route for forthe forthe forthe the fortress at al Petersburg If found lound guilty they will be sentenced to 10 hard labor In Siberia for tor any term Im ranging from two Iwo to 10 years year ean Their bundles bundle contain their modest wardrobe and hot hol trough though it Is ta they have put on their overcoats so eo that the public may not nol see that their shoulder straps trap with lile be regime HIM I inset crest have be been n torn tom off ot It will bu bo I noticed that their spars span have gone an another I other alga of at degradation allon It la is lastrange a aI I strange fact facet tl that you JOU never as see a II de degraded del degraded graded dad Rv Bl soldier without his hi l overcoat He Is I not a determined I enough Socialist to 10 care cam to show bow the tho effect of 0 his b rebellion to the world DEATH TRAP FAILED From time Um to time Socialists blow blowup blowup blowup up trains Iraln carrying carryll soldiers and nd throw bomb bomba Into their barracks with more or less lea 1 loss 1155 10 of ot life Ute The Th latest lat attack on a military transport took place I e erb early rb In July Jill not far tar from front The n victims victim were two battalions battalion of 0 the t regiment Ten Tan bombs bom connected by conductors were placed on aD the th line Happily sic she wore displaced and only four loul wont went t off olf do doIng dol doing Ing l comparatively little IItti damage rI The Tha unexploded ones weighed 10 pounds pound each earh and were charged with an un uncommonly uncommonly commonly strung trun explosive The sot sol soldiers dials diers searched the Ibe forest bordering the cutting I and made four IU Their officers had difficulty In keeping their mn men from killing the prisoners Rut But can one on wonder at It Had th the attempt been n successful a 1 thousand men guilty only nary of doing their ther duty ut would have hava been beau bt ell killed or maimed RUNS nUNS OR OREAlI BAIT RINKS Those These Th are some me of the large lare lareIn affrays In which th t the Russian soldier to is at t the mercy of 01 the revolutionists Beside d this Ihs he b la is shot hot at whilst on Oft patrol duty dut when hen headed by an ass 11 ollie r he stops people In th the street ew and examines their passports When Whan the patrol pal Is Ia large tar and aud th the suspected man mall alone aloes 10 the Ih latter Is I mot most polite and aJI gives Ivol up his hili passport pon with witha ith itha a good gram grace The last Iut Illustration Is III Isa isa a good example of this The officer has bu some I II 10 men with him all on thu Iho alert The Th Revolutionist la ta alone none non of ot his hta hi friends friend are by bF to help el him Mu e ha he h raises raise his hta rap cap wed and an all answers a awers the Iho officer with deference But every man In th Ih the patrol knows know that Ihal were their numbers number small 11 mud and had the Ih Socialist a couple of at friends with Uh them they would get t but slant scant cour courtesy test tesy tea and a a short shrift ft NOT A BID D 0 OF or All to told the tb Artesian a soldiers life ilfe b I Inot not nOI G one of 01 roses roe In is these 11 troublous times an and If it from Iro time U to tun they thy thyI lose I their that r l tamper INar mp rs and NI use us their tins fin n soma arms a little Ile freely rel abr It R Is III but bu they are human bumAn and ami do not ear oaro t I Ido to tobe be shot down do n in III broad daylight whilst escorting etI m mosey nOli iny that doss dew d not even belong bala to them Ihm m ec K blown up whilst traveling a i the h rears isara 1 from one to another When Whan 11 h he leaves avs patrol trul duty duly puts ll down dowe hi h mud u l smokes cinches mull a Cigarette t you will wll not tut II lit And 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