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LONDON'.—England's welcome
to her starved and ailing prisoners
returning from Germany is in strik
ing contrast to the indifference with
which soviet Russia receives the
hundreds of thousands of emaciated
forlorn soldiers of the Russian
army who are straggling back into
their ruined homeland, which is
practically foodless and fuelless,
! snowbound and in the throes of
zero weather tempered by only four
or five hours of sunshine.
England’s king and queen have
j greeted many of the returning pris
! oners. Hundreds of patriotic so
I cieties have committees of loyal
women on the docks where the ex
j iles land to provide them with
I warm drinks- and food and express
! the gratitude of the nation for their
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| self-sacrifice to the Entente cause,
j Bands play the familiar airs of the
homeland as the victims of German
prison hardships again set their
feet on British soil. Flags line
the streets and grateful citizens
cheer the returning heroes.
But it’s a far different picture
! in disorganized Russia. Dispatches
from the Russo-German boundary
announce that thousands of the
consumptive and disabled Russians
j released by the Germans, insuffi
ciently clothed and without food,
I are dying along the highways of
: the once glorious empire of the
I Romanoff’s.
| The red flag has replaced the
emblem of the red, white and blue
stripes under which the prisoners
marched to battle. The cause for
which they fought has been dis
j avowed by the Bolsheviki Offi
cials are calloused to the sufferings
of hunger and disease and wholly
devoted to efforts to perpetuate
the great political experiment they
launched a year ago.
worse from week to week. Food
has become scarcer. Coal and oil
are not obtainable. Spanish sick
ness has intensified the disorgani
zation. F’remier Lenine has issued
orders to border soviets that they
must better physical conditions for
the returning soldiers, but the food
supply is so limited and the con
ditions are so hard for all the popu
lation in Central Russia that even
if officials were inclined to heed
the mandates of the Bolsheviki
premier, they probably would be
helpless because of the utter lack
I of supplies and indifference of the
great mass of red supporters.
For months the American Young
I Men’s Christian Association and
the American Red Cross attempted
to soften the return of Russian
prisoners to their devastated home
land. Receiving camps were made
sanitary by these organizations.
Simple foodstuffs were provided.
Workers were placed on hospital
trains to clean them up and cigar
ette? and games were supplied to
the patients who were able to sit
up. Teachers were also placed in
many of the receiving Jhospituls
in Moscow who offered instruction
in industrial lines and taught pris
oners to read.
But the Bolshevik government
hindered this work systematically
and finally stopped it entirely. Offi
cers of the Young Men’s Christian
Association were arrested and im
prisoned- Some of the prominent
Bolsheviki objected violently to the
association because it had "Chris
] tian” in its name. Others held that
| both the American Red Cross and
I the American Young Men’s Chris
| tion Association should be pre
I vented from doing anything which
i might win favor for the United
States among Russians.
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It is reported that the Venus
; mine in the Conrad district will rc
I open, after having been closed down
for some time.
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GRANT FOR INVENNTION
LONDON.—A device which for
more than three years helped to
i protect British warships from Ger
man mines has won for its in
ventor, Lieutenant Charles D. Bur
| ney of the British navy, the order
of Companion of St. Michael and
St. George and a grant of $150,000.
The invention is said to have saved
the lives of hundreds of sailors and
prevented the loss of many war
ships. It consists of a waterplane
, shaped like a torpedo, having a
pair of large flat fins projecting
j on either side. It is towed overside
by a wire rope in such a way that
it runs from the ship’s bows out
ward. The wire rope is intended
l to pick up the mooring ropes of
mines and slide them along until
they reach to the nose of the de
i vise, where a sharp sa\v is fixed
inside a V-shaped slot. The saw
cuts through the mooring rope and
allows the mine to float free, where
. it can either be avoided or de
; stroyed.
The invention is known in the
1 service as the “1*. V.”, or “para
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KNOWN ON BORDER
KI, PASO, Tex. — Revelations
made in Washington that Germans
virtually controlled the wireless sta
tions in Mexico was not news to
American officials on the border
here. It was known for two years
that the Germans had an elaborate
system of wireless communication
in Mexico and news of German vic
tories would be received in nor
thern Mexico as soon as it reached
the United States, the wireless sta
tions relaying it throughout Mex
ico. Much information of military
value was also known to have been
sent through Mexico to Germany
by these wireless plants The Ger
man manned wireless stations in
Mexico caused much interference
to the American army wireless
operators by filling the air full of
wireless waves, operators at Fort
Bliss said. Many military messages
were picked up by the American
border wireless stations.
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