The Fighting Czecho-Slovaks

14 pages in this part of World's War Events.

THE Czecho-Slovak Expeditionary Force is one of the most romantic armies of the ages and an important step toward world democracy and…

Last March there were two ways to travel in Russia. If one was an American-relief worker, correspondent, Y. M. C. A. man-one could get a…

I found my place on the expedition as teacher of English to a group of Czech officers and members of the National Assembly. My class wanted…

The miracle accomplished by the Czechs is the result of discipline and courage rather than strategy. Their rise to power was on their own…

This Czechish heart centre of virile independence acted as a powerful magnet wherever their bands moved. All through Russia and Siberia…

The General Staff train on which I rode carried, in addition to the cars for officers and men, a hall for the National Assembly meetings, a…

At the larger stations we spent sometimes hours, sometimes days. That gave a chance for the Czechs to mix with the Russian people. It gave…

Immediately a thick-chested Czech strode forward. "It is the one thing that makes a man a man," he replied. "It is the thing that links men…

Having come out of Armenia, with its remnant race of human wrecks, and after months of the demoralizing fatalism and moral laxity of the…

The journey to Vladivostok. "Everyone said that it could not be done. It meant going almost round the world. But we were determined and…

Captain H-was in Omsk. Behind him, as I talked with him, was a card index file showing the occupation and residence of forty thousand Czech…

Professor Masaryk in America is the leader.

The reason for their being in the district of the Urals is one part of the romance of their adventurous life. Out across Siberia, near the…

Siberia seems ready to welcome the Czechs, and if the Allied forces in Siberia keep themselves sufficiently in the background, Siberia will…