RUSSIA'S CHINESE ARMY

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13933, 11 July 1919, Page 4

RUSSIA'S CHINESE ARMY

Investigation ordered by the Siate Department aiti Washkigtori as the result of frequent mention oi Chinese troops operating with. <the Russian Bolshevik forces has disclosed tiiat tho Bolsheviks are using a mei-cemaay , Chiinese legion gome 30,000 strong, ' comipotsied ailmositt wholly of la,bouireas imported from China, by the Inir petrial Russiain Goivernmeint' sooai' after the war began for worik. on, the Murmansk irtadlnoad 1. This informaitiioni, it "Was learned, was obtained by the departinxirit' through, mquiries by American repireseinitjaitives aibroad and officials, of neutral ooujutlries. When work ooi tihe Murmanfiik road was aomspleted, tthe Chinese workmen, about, 60,000 of ittem, made liheir way ibtb Central Russiai, and per'hla.ps hlalf oif them eyenituallly readhed nfiiutral countiries or retuirned to Chinßi. Mois* of tihe oitheirß joined the Bolsheviks when the laititer came inito power, because ntoibodly else was offering ipfay, food, and cloithdnigIti .is estimiated th'ait probably two or three hundred Chinamen' already in Russia or who 'drifted.' tihere during the war joined tihe legion,'. Until recently, ait! lejasib, Itihe officers weire Germans, and itfc is. believed in Washington thlaiti mmb of the Geirman offi-.; cerg still are with tihe force, although there also are some Bolshevik ( Ruissdaii officers. I