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Show SOVIET HIS ILLJIHPPEO American Red Cross Man Is Taken by Bolsheviki on Advance Ad-vance Wins Release WA.RSAW. Aug. 8. (By Th Associated Asso-ciated Press, i Sergeant William Cook of Fay, Okla . member of the American Ameri-can typhus expedition. caDtured turcc weeks sko by the Bolshevik at Minsk, has arrived, having been released He came by way of Vllna and Riga, where he Joined a Red Cross courier Soldiers In the Rolshevik urmj." he said "are all eager to reach W irsaw, as they believe the war will end If the capital is taken. Some Bolsheviki apparently ap-parently do not care whether the war 'ends. Man-- are oung fellows who I look on war as a lark." REDS WELL EQUIPPED. The soviet armv has plenty of soldiers, sol-diers, rifles, machine guns and ammunition, am-munition, Cook says, but he did not see any artlllerv except six captured cannon. He saw many American automobiles and motorcvclos being d, and remarked that the Bolshe- I vlkl are fairly well fed, having lived jou tne country they have captured Litiln discipline prevails, he declared and although th'-re is no saluting, officers of-ficers arc respected hile on the march, the Bolshevik reminded Took of a crowd of American farmer boys going to a picnic, as they made no effort to preserve formations Whenever they desired, groups would rest. One day he counted eleven airplanes air-planes flying toward the front. Cook, who fought in the American ranks In France, was captured when he remained with the anti-typhus train at Minsk-. Cook was taken for a Polish Po-lish soldier by the Bol.'hevlki. who stripped him of everything except his underwear and then paraded him through the streets. When it became known he was an American, soldiers came for miles to see him, -Tid he was regarded as a fre:ik STORES MLE SEIZED. A Bolshevik officer at first Ignored Cooks pica that he was a non-com-batant re lief worker. Two weeks after hie capture. Cook was taken before the commissar, who related the good points of tho soviet form of government govern-ment Cook remained In Minsk a week before he could obtain papers to give him authority to travel During that time the Bolsheviki began closing clos-ing stores, taking them over for the government W hile there he lived on black bread and tea. Cook served twenty years In the United States army. While in Minsk Cook met Louis Jennings, an American lumber dealer. Jennings, who Is still an American citizen, dlil not leave when the Bolshe- vlkl threatened the city because Mrs Jennings was visiting in a nearby town. |