When they had started on that great migration across that enormous expanse of country the Bolshevik Government. no doubt inspired by its German masters. made up its mind that it was an unwise thing to contribute or permit the.contribution of 1.00.000 soldiers to the forces of the allies in the shape of these Bohemians and Slovaks. They tried to stop them. and when they tried to stop then those people got out of their trains and seized the railroads and today possess nearly all of them from the Yolga in European Russia to Vladivostok. with three or four comparatively minor exceptions.. fighting with their backs to the wall and calling for us. for Japan. for Great Britain. for France to cone and help them. There they are today with alnost the entire transportation system of Asiatic Russia In their possession. Thank heaven we have started at last. and I hope we will go the limit iln helping them. They are our friends. that little 100.000. scattered along that 5.000 miles of railroad. most of them without shoes. all of them without overcoats. a third of them without rifles. but.still holding their own.