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Show II. S, SOLDIERS TO BE RELEASED Officials See Necessity of Withdrawing Troops From the Archangel Sector. ARCHANGEL, Tuesday. April S. (By the Associated Press) In view of the situation which has developed among the American troops in Archangel, official of-ficial circles are impressed with the necessity of promptly relieving the 'American soldiers, who now are in I north Russia. I The soldiers have interpreted the statement thnt thr would be relieved at the earliest possible moment is meaning not later than June first, which is the time they believe navi-, p.itlnn at Archangel probably vviil be open and while oat of ;t spirit of loyalty loy-alty to their officers and traditions they rxpress a Willincncss to Stick i out until that date, they are exceed - inply reluctant to go to the front and 1 risk their lives. Johnson Denounces War Department WASHINGTON. April 10 An of Ti - j cial report to the war department on discontent among American troops in northern Russia is understood to contain con-tain about the same facts related in the Associated Press dispatches received re-ceived today describing the unwillingness unwilling-ness of an American company to re-, re-, turn to the firing line until appealed to by then regimental commander Senator Johnson of California, Re 'publican, in a statement today, re-' re-' newed hi3 denunciation of continued : American participation In the flshtin 'around Archangel and cited this situation sit-uation as a paiallel of what might happen under a league of nations. "This is not a question of Bolshevism Bolshe-vism or of fighting Hie horrible doctrines doc-trines of Lcnine and Trotzk." he suid. "This is waging a war with American blood on a foreign soil a war undeclared by America but decreed de-creed by a foreign council. ' It points concretely to the league of nations." |