Show M W H 0 ai m siberian melodrama by FLOYD GIBBONS ERES a yarn that sounds as if it might ha H HERES have i in the old wild west when two gun horn hombis bres an fn ha leil and booted and foug t it the streets spurred cowpuncher cow qz I 1 dance halls with well directed volleys from their six s 3 cle an t I 1 dont know whether those things ever happened hatin pT 0 all I 1 know is what I 1 see in the movies thi this is incident out in thel t 10 you about sounds like the west but it happened way w ingo sa ing 14 part of siberia and it happened to samuel C taylor over in the ot of new N ew yo you know we had troops in siberia tor for a couple of n athe world sam taylor ae ars gt 1911 war was one of th them em he ee platoon of sixty men from company D thirty fi fikter united waa 1111 V infantry stationed at the little siberian town of astl the town itself was nothing but a railroad station the soldiers were living in half a dozen box cars that and had a a few li off their wheels and set on the ground beside the track butti but bee hotl town was small it was affording plenty of excitement tho 0 CT sam was provost guard it was about the middle of january and for days the arne been watching an army go through the town it was t a bwol horii 1 but the time it L at same a friendly one either army moving to attack vladivostok not far away as dlly go in siberia sam says there were thousands of them well machine guns and lugging enough field pieces to blow those ca 4 americans and their box cars to halifax but they bothered with the americans taking via vladivostok di w was as mon por tant on the afternoon of january 18 sam was acting provost brit the railroad station it was a bitter cold day A cuttin cutting 9 wind was s ing past the station and private pat strong on sentry go was s up and down the platform two bolshevik troop trams trains had just rr ps M in on a siding and bolshevik soldiers had crowded into the station 6 they could buy hot tea and vodka and as pat strong paced up n down the platform a big russian said something to him in in russian pat understand him he came to port arms while sian stormed and gesticulated and finally grabbed pats gun patti path to pull the gun away but the russian was a powerful bru brute he sam fired and the big russian russia n fell pat around and threw him in a snow bank A couple more came running up he threw them into the sno snow w bank too and ana mad dash for the station where sam came into the picture As provost provosty pro vosta 0 he rated a sentry box down at the end of the platform nes to fight just as the russian broke loose and started into the me and he came out on the run with the other three agenw his back he started after him he fired first and got his man bev the says he 1 I went bursting into the station as if 1 0 of states army were on my heels that th at station was 11 f I 1 ing talking and yelling lots of them had rifles rifle some S e hand grenades tied to their belts but I 1 t h have ei r fou e ithe the grenade situation just then that big russian had a d 5 rifle I 1 was five feet inside the door when wl ien I 1 spott of mi have seen me first because he was raising his gun sam had a forty five automatic and it was a question ia e 0 out ti 0 0 or the russian could shoot first without even taking dropp he whipped that automatic up and let go the big russian taws ose busing 65 e an instant there was a dead silence in in t the h I 1 station ion ell 18 surprised says sam and so was I 1 for a seco s opened fire on the whole damn bunch of them u just in in time a stok id was 35 it was a tough spot and sam kne knew it here of their roomful of wild russians and he had just shot one be sure to y V id avoul vt 0 if he started out the door some of them i disorder gin shooting if that happened be general genera full 0 f bobbed sixty americans fighting a whole troop train i for salo gain curtails and what was more to th the e point it would be curi glass crash routed the russians blag to e 1 decided dec eded id bena c 1 I had to use my head he says and I 1 over er their stood in in the middle of the floor waved my pistol at p pointed to the door and then happened the thing nt e pistol life in I 1 tightened my grip gp r my swinging my arm a ug e to from dropping it and in doing that I 1 squeezed squeeze S e ere struck BANGI BANG off she went again that bullet bar and down came a lot of glassware the ra racket on terrible d sam says the falling glass created cr bated a the 1 turn must have thought a shell had burst t in there trough it W e ceded for the door and sam says they went tl u in I 1 the P place lace bolshevik thel tornado in ten seconds there a bolshevik and where were the other three fellows f hear sa Ys sarn those e 1 to I ts to 0 outside turned into a rear guard when they w tot for camp calv eat and saw all those huskies piling out they ran w cor to i others the russians had eaten nie me alive and were wei d too when 16 be l 6 bero be olt 1 sam says he certainly did NOT feel like a about it pi think p that station he just have time to wa in ea after I 1 got inside he says that I 1 realized I 1 was of those pea k often thought afterwards suppose id hit one russians had tied to their belts boy that WOULD have been an adventure 0 service |