hey
were in the O. D. uniform and were American citizens. And of course the
same thing could be said of many another nationality that was
represented in the ranks of American doughboys and whose bravery in
battle and fortitude in hardships of cold and hunger gave evidence that
no one nationality has a corner on courage and "guts" and manhood. To
call the roll of one of those heroic fighting companies of doughboys or
engineers or medical or hospital companies in the olive drab would
evidence by the names of the men and officers that the best bloods of
Europe and of Asia were all pulsing in the American ranks.

The presence of British, French and American war vessels and the first
small bodies of troops encouraged the Murmansk Russian authorities to
declare their independence of the Red Moscow crowd and to throw in their
lot with the Allies in the work of combatting the agents of the German
War Office in the North. In return the Allies were to furnish money,
food and supplies. Early in July written agreement to this effect had
been signed by the Murmansk Russian authorities and all the Allies
represented, including the United States. It will be recalled that
Ambassador Francis had been obliged to leave Petrograd by the Bolshevik
rulers, and he had gone north into Murmansk.

The result of this agreement with the Murmansk and the arrival of
further troops at the Murmansk coast, together with the promise of more
to follow immediately, was to influence the Russian local government of
the state of Archangel to break with the hated Reds. And so, on August
1st, a quiet coup d'etat was effected. The anti-Bolshevists came out
into the open. The Provisional North Russian Government was organized.
The people were promised an election and they accepted the situation
agreeably for they had detested the Red government. Two cargoes of food
had no little also to do with the heartiness of their acceptance of the
Allied military forces and the overturn of the Bolshevik government.

Within forty-eight hours came the military forces already mentioned, the
advance forces of the British that preceded the Allied expedition,
consisting of a huge British staff, a few British soldiers, a few French
and a detachment of fifty American sailors from the "Olympia." In a few
days the battalion of French colonials sailed in from Murmansk.

The coming of the troops prevented the counter coup of the Reds. They
could only make feeble resistance. The pass