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BOLSHEVIK FORCES GROWING STEADILY ready Bave Wel Equipped 8 Army of Million Men Londan, Jan. 15 (Correspondence the Bolsheviki of \ssociated Press.)-—Russian have a well equipped and disciplined army of one million mea 11l have doubled its size and ef- fec another Rev. Cyp American Y ssociation secretary, who irge of the association’s Kazan on the Volga river and returned from Russia after of servic in Bolshevik tivencss in six or Richard ng Men's months, vs 18 Mitchell Christian was in cl work at who has nonths Dr. port apy work Kin h filed his Iussian uation as A Giericans M MG for the Unit- itchell the to with les to the headquarter zdom’ here. gravest danger to the Dr. Mitchell b the Bolsheviki the Jinue lusion lieves, i can famine regime, 1€ next six power wee co in indefinit con reached by Dr. Mitc control will 12 the do | S Tp until wiki ean hold February they for anather said. “In spite of am ot a Bolshevik, I it i« possible for any nou- party combination to! the Bolsheviki without a ral Allied assistance. viki have no right Should the Allles take control the Bolsheviki and hand it over | non-Bolshevik Russia, I question riously whether these 3 could keep peace for more than a The thing that makes so difficult peasant will not fulfill ov carry on his the probably Rolsi end carry months,” he fact that I beli Ishevik rthrow 1t on or ov in Po- | from to o fes amon themselves months Russian situation ct that the Russian sthe Russian workma his usual obligations. work. He is la sh and refuses to espouse the cause of either the Bolshevik or the non-Bolshevik. I know this to be true in the conflict | between the Bolsheviki and Czecho- Slovaks along the za and 1 have abundanrt pire me to .helieve that this is t all over Rus- sia The intelligencia totally incapable against the Bolshevik They take it out in talk and abuse. Personally they are fine peopie and my Ru friends are all numbered | among them, but patriotism and na- tionalism with them are words which have not the cannotation which we at- ach to them. I met one man in my 15 months in Russia who seemed to | have a suspicion of what these words mean. They are learning now but learning very slowl “It seems as if the capable and ef- sient Russian woman will have to stem the tide of disorder and compel his Russian tumut and chaos to take order and power. It Is there. It will com But it will come slowly *32d only after the heart of Russia is ortured by the tragedy of its pr nt situation which it has not yet lv began to feel and realize. Today tomorrow morning it is theatri- the outpouring of the native matic instinct of the Russian, but tomorrow noon will begin the serious sober reality to which we can build an 'nternational structure.” t is and zy, s Vo | evidence o | e | | and | of doing bourgeois any- power. are thing an an wnd SEEK LLOYD GEORGE TO PRESENT IRISH PLEA { - Base Outline On President Poincare’s Outline of Pecace Conference Purposes. 26 Dublin, Jan (Correspondence of the Associated Press.)—Captain Stephen L. Gwynn, former nationalist member of parliament, now chairman of the executive committee of the Irish center party, and several Irish nationalist officers who served in the war, have sent an appeal to Premier Lloyd George to submit the Irish »n to the peace conference. jtain Gwynn was active in the voluntary recruiting movement in Ire- land in the latter part of the war when it was feared that conscription would be imposed upon Ireland In a letter to the premier, Captain Gwynn and his associates say that the of Treland could not be bet- than in the wards of Poincare in outlining the of the peace conference as being “'to remake the map of the world and respect the rights of nations, small and great. to dispose of themselves." By these terms. asserts Captain | Gwynn and his fellow officers, “‘the] peace canterence is indicated as the ! bar which Treland’s claim | should be heard and judged. Ventur-[ to affirm that we speak not for| purselves alone,” confinues the !vnnrv" for the of thousands of| nationalists who went out with e same purpose that inspired us d of whom many thousands rever speak a we snbmit pectfully that the TIrish should go (o the arbitrament peace conference. “The Trish difficul rtly Treland, hetween a maiority and a mi- e but it lies also between Treland gland who have acecept- principle of rined equities n s cla em lescribed dent before ing ut tens h can to vou question of lies ou e interaationally between nation cannot in honor and in n that as between England | Ireland, England should be the| judge Not only eountry, and in the interest of our but in the interest of peace, which must always while a. nation small or lives under a deep-seated sense ent and rankling injustice, we vou with the utmost earnestnes ubmit our case and yours, our n. ficults and your imperial dif- the gre: ize of rations preat ni 1e 9 seven | Bolshe- | | ery jal | tached and the decoration is placed in i were in fthe | | | | n\ei_ in | l | | |a daily | | | i ] WID high class NEW BRITAIN DAILY H THE RAPHAEL’S DEPT. 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ALL HONOR MEDALS | STREETS OF DDESSA ARE MADE AT MINT i Philadelphia 7Gover1'1mem Shop Turns Out 22 Different Types Philadelphia, Feb. 28.—Every med- | al that the United States government | i in the Philadelphia confer made mint. For the war department alone, | at types of med- | the big federal factory is present money turning out als. The badges of honor awarded tn= Marshal Haig and Joffre a,nd‘ Allied command- ers, were the product of the mint. | Marshal Foch is reported to have remarked that the American distia- | guished service medal is the hand- | somest military decoration awarded. | About 200 of these medals of bronze and brilliant blue enamel are made ev- | week in this city and turned over to the war department for shipment ta the camps and army headquarters at home and abroad. H Many more of the military crosses, awarded for valor, are being made. More than 5,000 of these have already been shipped from the mint In manufacturing these medals ten im- pressions are made by a hydraulic | press on a small square of bronze, ! beginning with 100 tons pressure and | increasing to 250 tons. After the die | has been stamped in this fushion,the‘ cross is cut out by machine. The med- is then passed to workmen who fashion the little cross-bars from vhich it is suspended, ribbons are at- Foch, other distinguished | ! box ready for delivery. 1 The United States navy medal of | hanor is also made at the mint. Here | are manufactured the various kinds of medals awarded for sharpshooting. | marksmanship and other honors of the service. An order now being filled calls for 10,000 Mexican servi medals, at- tractive bronze discs for the men wha | the Vera Cruz expeditions. Now that the peace conference at Paris has approved the award of a distinctive service medal to every man who served in any of the Allied ar- mies, the Philadelphia mint may be called upon to manufacture medals by million a Van Camp’s Russell Bros. _aavt. | NEED R. R. Viadivostok, of lway ADMINISTRATOR. (By Mail.)—Thso the Trans-Si- Jan 2 expense operating is exceeding its incomc of a writer in two trains | between the normal about $40,000.000 a a local newspaper ly are now Viadivostok, Cheliabinsk and FEka- terinburg and one of these is a mil tary train. The writer asserts that the road has enough equipment to give | service of eight trains across Russian cities. | gned for failure to de- are de- H military supplies emplo equivalent month, savs Only operated Siberia to the Reasons a velop the road to its capacit struction of the Onon bridgs management, shortage of scarcity of food for railway and financial difficulties o Bu Advt. dozen at 1 i | 301 Main street.- | Little Store, | pistol { and no night passes without consider- | I ness houses in dayl | state. | ning blows MEGCA OF THIEVES Police Are Helpless and Robbers Are Very Numerous Odessa, the Associated Press.)-—Police protec- tion by the Russians in Od a ineffective that street robberies point are frequeat after Jan. 8 (Correspondence of is so at the dusk bands have heen attacked busi- rench troops and of the rols and able firing. Armed sa bold that they however, are taking situation by organizing the Russian governor has martial law. At Bolshevik mee Kiev and other Ukr tators are discussing power and the ¢ ings reported the se tion of a Ukrainian It is declared that 85 per cent of the Kiev Soviet are communists Those most competent to judge tho Ukrainian sit from the nd- point of nippin >vik anarchy in the bud urge Allied interveation pend- ing the anization of rational elements to recover from the stun- of the past vear. Allied the settlement of agrarian problems would invalu- the counsel in and other be (able. Material aid in the shape of goods at fair prices would be an earnest of MEETING PLACE OF THE BOLSHEVIKI AT MOSCOW proclaimed | to (234 00, All New Styles and Colors. { the Allies” intentions nd would go far | to dispel in th ' of peasants and shevik fictions con- loiting ambitions of alists and capital- here that non- v place Bolshevik | workmn cerni the Allied impe ists.” 1t is declared intervention would me sia at,tt of t1 cventually play Many receptic ments are being Allied officers and men An address prscented I mea of Odes the expressed the conviction that | ous France and all the faithful have not forgotten the first y the war, when Russia valor on Prussian anc tlefields and sacrificed her patriotic vouth THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN Mifitary ex - nerc and Iy by th to Allied f gene: Allies proved Austrian flower her the Former Governor of Brussels Now Has to Stand in Line— for a “Handout.” The I { dence Aron (Correspon- [ G n of Holland from was the of The von der T civi Be wh the h nur Germans aiding ¢the Brit ! to escape from ken told sparc executed b in er, 191 1 and Be Belgium. Hugh for jan Von then Gibson, 3 Eatrance t where n Bolsheviki for discussion and insignia conference. for The Bolsheviki red the ‘l(;u'y governor upon Miss Cavell | to stand | when, Silk Dresses . . . A handsome lot of well mide stylishly modeled, all wool serge and silk lbress&fi in the new Vestee and Suit effects—All \gew colors, sizes up to 50.—ALTERATIONS E. secreta that the sentence imposed by the mil- was final and that the civil governor could not overrule it. When von der Lancken arrived here he went to the German legation, in order to obtain food cards, he ad to apply to the police station, where he failed miserably in his ef- | Even nounced their type paragraphs. General forts to obtain preferential tresNment s a “distinguished visitor.” A chance cailer ithere found him in line with a oup of unwashed refugees, his well- roomed figure out of keeping with his surroundings. He was compelled in line for two hours before his wants were attended to. To one who remembers the to get word from von der ncken in Brussels, it was necessary ) give two days’ notice, after which one had to s through a bod: guard of I suspicious under lings, the spectacle of this exquisite specimen of Prussian waiting his turn in the file amid the letariat afforded an excel- tion of “the times that changed.” time b illustrs are Van Camp’s Milk 14c. Russell Bry Leaders Passes World. German Military Practically Unnoticed By Jan. 17, (Correspondence ociated Press.)—An ex- the effect of the revolution fame of German military Munich, the ample of upon the - junkerdom | | ny U —Advt. ;i 0 PLEETING IS FAME Retirement of Two Frstwhile Famous ! | net of er of Ru ma the by ing world over, reads “Peace, and Broth- erhood of the People.” Copyright Underwoad & Uaderwood. | these two leade retirement erward until the end o military cor, much German army General the battle cluding Verdun into conflict with the The Krafft von Bothmer Dellmensingen apparently and caused General Count Bothmer | onty Bavarian other than was the C s. With scarcely a word of requiem formerly famous army both Bavarians, slipped into and apparent oblivion monarchical papers an- | actlon only in st | to lead a whole army. | tired in 1909 | tive service for the war given command of the Linsingen stormed Zwinir on the Stryi river. As a his success he the southern lead- | to cover ( famous vinst Alpine | was F aw in the as chief »precht, through against the ans, Serbs, in Macedor and at on the western front, in- General Krafft came new government s, and an army army and the Russian the reward Kraff Bavaria formerly was chief n general staff and aft- the most wvarian bly any the army and was assi alicia which imerous Russian irmy that finally of licia in war, of one of Germany's units, the T ilis corps prob heavy fighting ps ussians of 1917 out the s mer staff Prince Ru his to K Crown afft led Native Little 5c dozen 301 Main at The Store, street.— mania ny points Adeline rmer ha Gorham and Miss ve returned home a to New York. fixed seated the Post cancelled the her: elf in the airpl Representative amps and the ‘“‘pa above interesting photo shows most parcel as ‘ precious vet sent the new Acrial “Parcel,” Post. 'The charm- | was delivere with proper stamps af- | (C) Underwood & Underwood. TIRE CO0. $50,000 Under Laws of nnecticut AMERICAR Incorporated for Co Invites the public to inspact puncture-p reof, non-bl office, 166 MAIN STREET its pneumatic vout tires at its Open Evenings of the American legation, I celebrities is afforded in the fact that | soon after the revolution which pr the retirement of two well known gen- erals, Count not even a ripple on public consciot ably is one reason for his retirem rg | Prince Rupprecht and Prince Leop He had but was recalled to corps with posif] d received command| £ he proted assaultg drove