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Show FIlSfBOlSII TEAR IIP IMS Take Two Years to Repair the Damage in Siberia, American Expert Claims 1 SHANGHAI. Jan. 7 Bolshevist sympathizers in Siberia have so torn up rails and ties along the Amur line of the Trans-Siberian railway that It will take two years to repair it. according ac-cording to Colonel J. L. La n try of the American Railway Mission to Siberia who came to Shanghai early in tho ; winter on his way home to America 1 That particular section of the railway.) he said, had been under the care of I the Japanese. "What will happen in Siberia this winter," said Colonel Luntry. ' is terrible ter-rible to contemplate. Thousands and thousands of people there are going to die or privation. They have worn their only suits of clothing all summer andthey have nothing more. "In spite, or all that the American Red Cross is doing: there,, and It is a 1 tremendous work," ho added, "unaccounted "unac-counted numbers will perish from cold and hunger. There Is no warm clothing, cloth-ing, no footwear and very, very little lit-tle food." Colonel Lantry, next to Colonel Emerson, Em-erson, has been in charg6 of the actual ac-tual operating work attempted by the American railway experts. He has ended his work in Russia. Formerly lie was first assistant to the vico pres- Ident or the Northern Pacitic railway Colonel Lantry said tho Americans had made little improvement or tho Siberian line,?, due to the many dilli culties encountered. "Scmenoff, the Cossack leader un- i rler-idmiral Kolchak, who guarded 5 part or the railway in the Chita tcr- J ritory." Colonel Lantry said, "has been : ane or the many obstacles." (General Semcnorf has since ' been appointed I commander-in-chief of the All-Russian armies.) R "When I was on my way to Shang-'G hai," Colonel Lantrv added, "I passed " through Andrinnovnlca. 2 0 miles west of the Mnnehurian border and I learned learn-ed that just a foiv days before General Scmenoff had ordered the executions of 340 persons in that little town in a single day." Colonel Lantry expressed the greatest great-est admiration for the Russian railway rail-way workman. "They have been entirely loyal," ho declared, "working for three or four months without pay. riding on tops of trains in bitter weather with never u caboose for shelter, poorly clad and talcing trains daily through regions marked by frequent wrecks and derailments de-railments caused by a hostile peasantry. peasan-try. Through it all the Russian railroader rail-roader has done his work. "With the right kind of co-opcralion." Colone.1 Lantry declared, "the American Railway Rail-way Corps, working with these men could have rehabilitated the railway and made it a man el of efficiency." Colonel Lantry" said ne had found J; the shelves of the store.N in the larg- v or centers he had visited recently j loaded down with Japanese goods, "I would not have been able to buy a single unused article manufactured by any other nation," he said. ; 00 ,,! |