. The Saturday evening post. boywho had been placed attheir head and whom theyaddressed as comrade — Tovaristch in aside the young-ster, I asked him how ithad come about that he, amere boy, had been placedin charge of these men,every one of them oldenough to have been hisfather. This is what hetold me: When it had been de-cided—evidently .understrong pressure, or ratherby command of thesoviet—to disarm the pop-ulation, the Duma Com-mission on Military Affairshad taken steps to sendout all over the towngroups of soldiers in motorlorries for the purpose ofsearching for and confis-


. The Saturday evening post. boywho had been placed attheir head and whom theyaddressed as comrade — Tovaristch in aside the young-ster, I asked him how ithad come about that he, amere boy, had been placedin charge of these men,every one of them oldenough to have been hisfather. This is what hetold me: When it had been de-cided—evidently .understrong pressure, or ratherby command of thesoviet—to disarm the pop-ulation, the Duma Com-mission on Military Affairshad taken steps to sendout all over the towngroups of soldiers in motorlorries for the purpose ofsearching for and confis-cating arms found in pri-vate dwellings. Beingafraid, however, of intrust-ing this task to an uncon-trolled soldiery, and asthere were no officersavailable, many of themhaving been murdered bytheir soldiers on the veryfirst day of the revolutionand the rest having beendisarmed by its order, or(Continued on Page 108) THE SATU RD/IY EVENING POST 105 T s SEND FORBOOKLET $yJanetMcKenzie Hill containingmany splendidrecipes. MARSHMALLOWS


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