COMRADES IN A STRANGE LAND 



General Hugh L. Scott, Chief of Staff of the United States Army and a member of the 

 American Mission to Russia, surrounded by privates of the Russian Army. In the new 

 European republic the campaign service hat is unknown : officers and enlisted men alike wear 

 military caps. During the visit of the Mission the orderlies of the American officers were 

 instructed to wear caps also, in order to establish their military status. 



of the other nations. It is as unfair and 

 misleading to judge Russia and the Rus- 

 sian people and their part in the war 

 from what is going on from day to day 

 in the new republic as it would be to 

 judge the mentality of an individual 

 who, having undergone a long and serious 

 operation, is just coming out from ether. 

 Before we can fairly judge the Rus- 

 sians at all we must wipe from our minds 

 the daily news, and with impartial vision 

 carefully weigh the knowledge and ex- 

 perience which we have of Russia in 

 character, not only in the past three years, 

 but from her history as a whole. We 

 must then, as Tar as we can, understand 

 the Russian point of view of todav ; try 

 to realize what the situation is from this 

 people's standpoint and what capacity 

 they have of acting other than they are 

 now doing. Then, knowing as we do cer- 

 tain definite factors, we can judge for 

 ourselves what we may anticipate from 

 Russia in the future. 



In an article in the Geographic Mag- 

 azine for April, I made some reference 

 to Russia in the war and her contribu- 

 tion. In order that we may fully appre- 

 ciate what she has already done and the 

 extent to which the Russian people have 

 already, irrespective of the future, earned 

 the gratitude of all of the Allies, it seems 

 worth while briefly to recapitulate her 

 achievements. 



WHEN THE FATE OF EUROPE HUNG IN 

 THE BALANCE 



In August, 1914, when Paris was in 

 danger, the Russians almost overnight 

 threw an army into East Prussia, which 

 moved with such success that Berlin was 

 flooded with refugees fleeing before the 

 Cossacks. At a moment when the fate 

 of Europe seemed to hang on the opera- 

 tions in the West, the German high com- 

 mand detached six army corps (240,000 

 men) from the armies on the western 

 front and dispatched them against the 



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