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3 tilii&dy. - II. Traders " Res'eni Intervention iVEtJTURERS IN HARBIN COMPLAIN AuAlNii TALLIES Americans Regarded as Greatest i of Bourgeoisie, Who Would I Roh Siberians Commerce. DISCIPLINE ENEMIES MANY Former Bolshevik, Operating Un- der Assumed Names, When . Uncovered, Get Short Shift. By Lndovlo H. Grondiji flpeciil Corrwpoixience to The Journal xA The Chieo Daily a Sin. ij(Copyriht, 118. by Chicaco Xhtlly Newt Co.) i Harbin.w Manchuria, April - 12. The bands of shady traders here are anti Bolshevist, because that regime doea not offer them the necessary security: for their business. - But Intervention by the si lie, which true patriots Implore, signl . Xles ;f or these people the re-establishment of an order which they fear and an Intrusion which threatens to drive them from the Siberian market. - , : Everything went so well, r The Chinese soldiers drove away the Bolshevist dan ger and protected their little affairs and their capital from confiscation. Ideally located in a neutral country between Siberia and all the ports of importation, they detested with all their strength a var which could add nothing: to their security in China and threatened to de mobilize commerce by military ' trans port. ; Among many conversations I cite that with the president of a committee of the Harbin bourse a - person strongly recommended to me by " the principal priest of the church of St. Sophia as a "true Russian." Like his-friends, he is opposed to the presence of the Japanese ' and Americans. in Siberia. , ; t J American! "Greatest Bourgeoisie" s "The Americans and the Japanese," he said, "wish to bring their goods here; exploit the country and drive out Rus sian commerce. Americans especially, are dangerous. They have come out of the war with small loss and, excepting the - Japanese, are the , only ones able i to resume commerce immediately. ; They are not Democrats, as they pretend ' to be. but the greatest bourgeoisie in the 'world. , - i- ... "It is not true that the allies have re established order. On the contrary. ev- ery time a, Russian, has - brought about order foreigners have succeeded . him; Thus the Czechs -came after Semenoff and the Japanese after Kalmikof and have taken to themselves the credit for the . enterprise. The allies have "done nothing, for us except occupy .our. rail roads and diminish their profit by using the cars without paying for Ahem." Our armies are , strong and soon the -happy . day will come when ,w shall be. able to say . to '.the- .'allies r'.TTi 'My' more use, for you. Get out" '." -'J:' - ? -.' The circle to which this individual be longs is composed of financiers and mer chants and a particularly. Influential Jn this country, where nothing is free, from financial transactions. Some are opposed to Japanese commerce; other prefer it to the , more terrible American .men ace." - .All these Russian merchants are influenced in their, judgment: solely by personal; interests. Their action is none the less important. , . '1 ' " ; Other Enemies ot Dlsclpllse : Then there is also a class of cersons. former political exiles or descendants of political exiles, who, without being Bol shevists. are enemies of all authority- primary school teachers, poor students, t ambitious Cossacks, they have deviated as far as. possible toward the left with out falling Into Bolshevism Itself. Their sympathy wavers irresolutely, between the Bolshevist regime, which does not admit them as chiefs, and the parties of order. But the dominating tendency glides fatally from one extreme to the other. Since the rattle of sabers and spurs has again made Itself heard in the streets their activity has been aroused through their Instinctive repugnance to the privileges of caste and brutal force, which was the soul of the revolution. These are the people who continue Ho Spread their dangerous propaganda gainst discipline among the soldiers of the new Russian army. , ;" ---. n Former;. Bolsheviki.' presidents' and secretaries of revolutionary committees. unidentified, pass under assumed names. From time to time they are -discovered In active propaganda work and then they are turned over to the Japanese, who a rive tnem away, or to General Semen off, who has them shot. Some of them are poor little Jews, whose energy and Intelligence caused them to come to the front In the first revolutionary meetings and who were lured by the prospect t power without control and success with out bounds. These persons, disowned toy the old regime. Intoxicated by Unex pected r acclamations , and attracted by glittering hopes of vengeance, have had their wings seriously burned everywhere. -. Brief Authority, Then Shot .v - 'Such, a person was Arkous. apothecary clerk In Harbin,- a small soul and having small intelligence, but lively : and noisy. No one Knows how it happened, but he Immediately came to the front as. soon -ss the Bolshevist movement .began to develop Here. The" soldiers noticed him and remarked that ho had; the' same "thirst for liberty" as' they had and be sides was ambitious and energetic. The leaders in the Jewish community dis owned him, but these the soldiers said were as "bourgeoisie" as the others. Arkous was made chief of police in ' Harbin and exchanged his filthy shirt for an entirely new uniform. He prome naded about armed with a large autc-matto-ilstol, which every little while he would shove under the nose of some "bourgeois. He arrested a number of suspects, extorted, money from the "cap itallstH" and made a great show. . But one day1 the 2000 Bolsheviki, through whom he receive his power, were sud denly disarmed by the Chinese soldiers. The other chiefs, the schoolmaster Ru tine, SI a wine and Maloff Is, were, able to save themselves In time. : But - Arkous found all eyes upon himself. The atten tion of the scandalized, town did not permit him . to ret 1 away. He was ar rested and escorted by- a detachment of Chinese soldiers to General Semenoff, who had him Shot. -" :..;, i . These discontented elements agitate In many different ways, but they agree as to one point, and that is the good Quali ties f the young Siberian armyv Its soldiers are patriotic and brave, and its officers have all done their, duty. And this appreciation Is not entirely disinter ested. It is but another way of protest ing against the intervention of the allies, Two Unique Alsatian . , Customs Are Resumed When Huns Kicked Out - By. Harry Haases . ' Special Cable to Th Joimal and The Chleaco . ' Dally New. -(Copyright. 1918. by Chieaco Daily Nws Co.) Rtrassburg, Alsace. April 12. A strange oif custom has come back to Strassburg with y. the return of the French the retreat. -. The retreat Is a parade at night with bands, pine torches and gay colored lanterns. Just how it got its name v nobody ; seems- to ' know. 1 1 goes back Into the dim middle ages and perhaps -it had something to do with the ancient, custom of conducting a crowd home- from a social affair with lanterns. Another custom that has been revived is the wearing of the - tradi tional costume of Alsace, for to the French Alsace is always represented as a girl with great big black ribbons on her head, a beautiful embroidered shawl over 1 her shoulders , and v a long red or green, skirt of generous width harking back 'to the days, before they began to be' abbreviated. - -i. .vr;i: .--''-. Both the - retreat , and ; the costumes came - back .fn all their glory to Strass burg last night and, strange as it may seem, they, were meant to. do honor -to journalists from other-shores, to whom Strassburg. opened its heart and its larder. As a member of the party of Journalists, I can only respond to the question. "Did Strassburg do itself proud r with the phrase of a ' Tart kee .soldier, who . marched through the streets of Paris in 1917: "Oh. boy 1" Strassburg had hung out all the gay tri-colored bunting available for - the occasion. It . had likewise on display great numbers of American flags, which bore - every Indication that they had been skillfully made at home". . Prosd of Traditions ; What was most astounding perhaps to simple writers ; from the' far west was that, they: were" greeted by great placards posted on the walls of the city calling on the young women and -girls to turn " out : in I'the : national Alsatian costumes-for the benefit of their foreign guests a: mark of respect that i per haps unique In the history , of Journal Ism.' t " ' , ' -, At the luncheon of the chamber of commerce and. later in the evening at a dinner 'given by the retiring high com missioner, Aiaringer. at, the place of the governors of Alsace, long occupied by German crown rulers called the stad thalter,' I-had an opportunity to con verse with men who now represent' the best French element among- the Alsa tians; fIt was strange; to think that for a' generation these men, who were- born and bred in. Alsace and. were, proud of Its traditions.; had been compelled to go through Its streets as if they were for eigners tolerated by law, but ostracised by the German administration, and un able to teach their children In public -of the glories of France. But time brihgs recompense, and it was with subtle. Joy that- these', men dined in a hall, where the kaiser frequently made his speeches, using thef plate of the stadthalterf In cluding gold-plated and, silver servio bearing ; the Imperial y arm's ; of Germanr with the imperial crests. Formatters developed, so quickly in Strassburg ths-t asked of a 'loyal Alsatian, after the crowd had booed thera lustily. "Because they are. so funny," he re plied. And they were. ? We had one of the first Soviets out side of Russia," said a young man to whom I talked. T was a member. That man opposite ns, who Is editor of - the Freie Presse, . or ; rather the . Presse Libre, as we call it now,' - was head of the soviet. We" had a bully time," he added and. chuckledV s ;-'?- ' 'What did you do?" I asked. V ."There were several German regi ments here and they were getting dis gruntled," he replied. "So we knew that the revolution was about to start. We had frequently expected it. but it had never come. So to anticipate them we Started it. ourselves in order to save Strassburg. from being destroyed. That was before the armistice. "The - soldiers went oyer to us. Every-; officer took off , his insisrnia and - the . men threw aside their grey , coats. We divided up the regimental property between us. Then the armistice came and Strassburg was safe. We sold everything. We sold a captive balloon to a clergyman for 25 marks ($6.25). Tou could buy a machine gun for 20 "marks 5). . Bottom of Many Praaks ' "Too were a soldier In the German army, thenr I asked. . "Yes. I was a soldier when the war broke out," he replied. "I was unable to desert. The Germans Xirst sent the Alsatians to- the . Russian border, and when the story of how the Germans were bothered from the inside comes to be written you will find an Alsatian at the bottom of many of the pranks played on the Germans. ; For instance, for a long time I was stationed at Dan zig, .where I was engaged as a clerk. An occasion 'arose when I could con veniently lose the papers which de scribed me as ?an Alsatian. This I did,. so" that' suspicion was no longer attached to me. .' Word was passed along to my compatriots that I was an Alsa tian, so that when an Alsatian came to Danzlgc and wanted to-be helped-home or out of trouble I was able to- expedite matters. , . ' . '.-'; -. -i "On One occasion -1 and another man expected 'the-i revolution to break out soon. We therefore.-secreted 500 rifles in a forest near a Russian prison camp. The moment the revolution broke we intended to get the Russians, out, march them to the forest ' and . make them 1 A nucleus for a rising in Danzig. It hap pened that the other regiments got sus picious, and my friend .came to me and said, ,Tou are not identified, but; they are searching tor the conspirator, and X. suggest that you hide In the Russian camp.' I went to ; the' camp, ; put on a Russian uniform and lived there, for two weeks. When I, came out- the - trouble had blown oyer. I was. glad it did, for those two weeks almost cured me of con spiring. ':jrr. --.-7.--2Ws- :.-;- -' 4';.. - Seemed to sow Asyhdw. " -:.vv "But think how we -AlsatIans;gotJOur mine - worked in; the military office verhere ; all the. . troop' trains wemdls- the stadthalter had to. flee, leaving hT-.'"- " hlr,A a t every move laughed heartily- while '? they ; employed tne imperial cuuery : and later -led ns Into a -large! reception hall, behind the dining room where, hidden under denim, were four great canvas portraits of the former, kaiser and kalserin and also of William I and of Frederick the Great. " "Why don't you take them down 7" I sace. before an ,,c4fenalveJ ' There were days wnen ne wouia ten-me just whers the offensive of the Germans was planned. We, - would.' pray for . s, French . secret agent to tome so that we might-, tell him the news." We laughed and raised our classes glasses with; the Imperial arms to Al- OFFICERS COMPELLED. TO EAT HUMBLE PIE ' AT ORDERS OF M. P.'S ,- ; Insignia of Rank Makes No Im pression on Military Police in Performing Their Duty. Special Cahl to The Journal and The Chicago Daily Newt. s .-. , (Copyrtcht. 1019. by Chicaeo Daily New Co.) Coblenz, Germany, April 12.-Thls Is merely a sidelight on the experience of Americans traveling under the surveil lance of their own military police in Europe.. The scene Is Metx. A train without a diner arrives from the zone of occupation' and stops an hour and a half. Three officers, eight! hours with out food, descend unmolested by the M. P. and enter the station restaurant, where they eat a meal. A few minutes before the train t is due to leave they start back to the train feeling, at peace with the world. While they have been dining, a squad of M. P, scarrying au tomatic ' pistols and billies, arrives at the 'platform gate, j, 'wnere are your passes?' demands the first M. P. The officers produce their identification papers and passes. "Them's no good. Howd yuh get there without your passes V "We Just walked out-and nobody asked us for passes," replied the officers. "Well, yuh, got to get passes when yuh leave here." in sists the M. P. "But we have merely come from our-train to eat lunch and have not left the station,"; say the offi cers. '-. producing railroad ! tickets and sleeper reservations' "Makes no differ ence; yuh got to reglsten Get out of here, quick, now !" shouts the ?. M. P. Others coming up, ' brandishing, their clubs, . the officers start to run to the other side of - the ' station toward the registering office. In a ; few minutes they return with the special slip de manded by the M..rP. L : "Where are your railroad tickets?" demands an M P. "We showed you them a minute ago," says an officer, "I have forgotten that,"; declares the M. P. ."You've got to show : me again "Your memory is short.; suggests the officer. f " The M. P., with the .remainder of his gang crowding close,' glares at the off! cers and makes no effort to read the papers. "Read the papers, for we're in a hurry," says an officer. "We, don't care whether you miss " your train or not," snaps the M. P.' "Them's our or ders. vUnderstand?" He slowly fum bles the papers and finally hands them back to the officers, who dash for the train. : p i-1 Making Money Easy Helsingfors, April 12. (U. P.) The production of soviet banknotes exceeded $2,500,000,000 worth monthly. Lenine told the All Russia . Trade Union con gress. ' . , ,-iVi ; , v; .! ; jj BolstevIsmCoP 'o Taxes 'iSe'rHav - April 13.U P.) 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