FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS.
Looking upon the! Bolshevik whole ' it is a fair- estimate to say. tiiai, about' one-fifth serve volunturpy and art readv to fight provided that- foe .nslc to themselves is' small and the..chance of 100 promising 8 These are the Chinese. Lg SoniaL, released criminals, from the towns 'and communists- Of the resi two-fifths are conscripted peasants who do aJ they ire ordered, but hate: fighting; ano onlv wa. fc pMCc; the other -two-fifths areconscHptcd men whojif they dared-, wond krill their Bolshevik officers and- go over to the anti-Bolsheviks. •> o Rlisgkn Ae-ainsfc trained troops, the Russian pun I,arv forces in South Russia would be cornnWlv°poworless. In’addition, they have no p{ collected propagaiida St the art of persuasion, and to miL/rnda work among the soldiers opposed to fl cm is very well b <lone, and .in many ways mom to feared than their. military attacks.’ .- -. ' ' -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 227, 31 December 1920, Page 9
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