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Show RED SOLDIERS BE i RUSSIA HLLYlOTj I 1 ! Most of Soviet Troops Neutral 1 I Newspaper Man Says After Investigation i 1 1 AMSTERDAM, Feb. 14. About SO j per cent of the red army in Russia i3 not "red" at all, but is neutral, according accord-ing to the staff correspondent of the Handelsblad, G. Nypels, who has just returned from an extended tour of; soviet Russia. He says about GO per cent of the officers who are largely drawn from the trained military mon !of the old upper class, are "czarist" !in inclination. This leaves only about 1 20 per cent of tho soldiers and 40 per cent of the officers, thoroughly attached at-tached to the soviet regime, the restj belni: neutral or czarisL Nypels. one of the few neutral ob-i servers who was permitted to visit! sovlot cities recently, writes In a series se-ries of articles that he was more courteously cour-teously treated by the Dolsheviki than I by the Poles through whose country 1 he had passed. In general he observes that "there j I are two kinds of Rolshevlki." Thej ifirot class, he says, are cranks with a lot i,f adventurers and rascals follow-! ing them. These people, he says, are very vain but if one knows how to treat them they are as was in one's hands. Tho second class are the true theorists, the adherents of Marx's 1 principles who are serious, well-mean-j ing people and invariably treat one faiii. "They cither admit you into theit ; country and receive you very well oj don't admit you at all' he declares. |